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REGIONAL ACADEMIES

Invite ENLIGHT to gather around your challenge

ENLIGHT’s Regional Academy events offer actors outside of academia the opportunity to invite students and researchers within their professional field from across Europe to join them in tackling their challenges.

ENLIGHT assists the host by matching the challenges with the participants from relevant educational programmes throughout the universities in the ENLIGHT alliance.

Call for Participation: Archaeologies of Sustainability Workshop at the University of Bern

Dates: 18-22 February 2026
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland

The ENLIGHT Thematic Network Archaeologies of Sustainable Environments (EASE) invites researchers to join the international workshop “Archaeologies of Sustainability: Long-term perspectives on food production, infrastructure, innovation and climate change.”

Founded by the universities of Uppsala, Groningen, and Bern, EASE aims to foster dialogue on how archaeology and related disciplines can contribute to sustainability research and practice. The network now seeks to expand to all ENLIGHT universities, creating opportunities for collaboration in research, teaching, and public outreach.

Workshop objectives

The workshop seeks to:

  • Create a scientific discussion of archaeological contributions to sustainability
  • Build a network among archaeology and related fields at ENLIGHT universities
  • Discuss future collaborations on research, teaching and public outreach within or beyond ENLIGHT

Who can participate?

The workshop is open to researchers from ENLIGHT universities working on sustainability-related questions in archaeology and neighbouring disciplines. Participation is possible with or without your own contribution:

  • With contribution (talk or poster):
    • Title submission deadline: 1 October 2025
    • Abstract (max. 300 words) deadline: 1 December 2025
  • Without contribution:
    • Short Expression of Interest (EOI) deadline: 1 October 2025

Accommodation costs will be covered for all participants who register before 1 October 2025.

Preliminary programme (subject to change)

  • Tuesday, 17 February 2026 – Arrival, keynote lecture, and icebreaker
  • Wednesday, 18 February 2026 – Scientific programme, workshop dinner
  • Thursday, 19 February 2026 – Scientific programme, departure

How to apply

Please send your title submission or Expression of Interest by 1 October 2025 to:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Marco Hostettler, EASE Task Coordinator, University of Bern)

For further details, visit: https://www.uu.se/institution/arkeologi-antik-historia-och-kulturvard/forskning/forskningsprojekt/ease-

Regional Academies

The Regional Academies connect ENLIGHT to local and regional actors within each partner university’s communities. The Regional Academies provide a forum for identifying local variations of the ENLIGHT Flagship Domains. Local challenges then serve as the basis for a number of outcomes such as new challenge based courses in a living lab model, opportunities for students to do their thesis projects or as start-up projects for research and innovation.

The Regional Academies from the ENLIGHT communities will also meet regularly connecting community representatives across the alliance to each other and to researchers from the ENLIGHT universities in the European Dialogues.

In the first year of ENLIGHT primary sources for challenges are public entities located in the ENLIGHT-communities. As ENLIGHT expands the origin of challenges will have a greater variation. 

ENLIGHT Challenge Database

Presented challenges are published in the ENLIGHT Challenge Database. Challenges can be sorted in a number of ways to make it easy for

  • students to identify an opportunity for a thesis project.
  • teachers to identify challenges that can be used in Living Lab style courses.
  • researchers to connect with external partners to initiate research projects.

If you wish to get in contact with the originator of the challenge please use the assigned contact e-mail published in each challenge.

To the ENLIGHT Challenge Database.