The ENLIGHT Knowledge Exchange Session, State Aid Considerations in Research and Innovation at our Universities will take place online on Thursday 3rd April 13.30 CET
The session is aimed at staff of ENLIGHT universities who are working in the Research Offices, Technology Transfer and Innovation Offices, Compliance Offices, Research Legal, Research Finance also others who support externally funded research.
Pelin Koyuncu, psychology student at the University of Bern, attended the ENLIGHT summer school Game Design in Health Care and Education. She developed an app that motivates people to exercise and stay physically active. In this interview, she discusses how she combines her passion for gaming with her psychology studies at the University of Bern, and explains why an ENLIGHT hybrid course offers a unique experience. Read the full interview here
We are excited to announce that 18 new bottom-up initiatives by academic and non-academic staff from our ENLIGHT partner universities have been selected in the first application round of 2025!
A last-minute application led Adrián Binka, a General Medicine student at Comenius University, to an eye-opening journey with ENLIGHT. From tackling global neurohealth challenges to shaping the student voice in academia, ENLIGHT fueled his passion for research, sustainability, and collaboration across Europe. Now, he’s on a mission to share this life-changing experience with others.
Read the full interview to discover his story!
From February 27 to March 2, Göttingen became a hub of ideas, discussions, and action as students from across Europe gathered for the ENLIGHT Student Conference. This year’s focus? Sustainability and inclusivity — topics that shape our present and define our future. Both topics align with the ENLIGHT flagships of climate change and equity.
ENLIGHT Calls 2025: What’s New?
ENLIGHT, a collaborative alliance of 10 universities, is dedicated to fostering cooperation between staff and students. Following the success of the first set of calls in 2024, which saw 80 applications and over 1,000 academics involved, ENLIGHT is excited to announce the second set of calls for 2025.
This spring semester ENLIGHT members can participate in six different staff training courses (Staff Weeks), four of which are still open for applications for both academic and non-academic staff.
The objective of the ENLIGHT Staff Weeks is to boost professional development and international cooperation, exchange best practices and encourage community-building between different fields. Each ENLIGHT university organises 2-5-day on-site courses every year, the topics range from marketing and funding to HR and career services.
Uppsala University invites educators, students, and academic professionals to submit proposals for the fifth ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference. This year’s theme, Playfulness for the Future of Higher Education, explores how playful teaching methods can enhance engagement, creativity, and learning.
The third edition of the European Dialogue will be hosted by the University of the Basque Country in Donostia-San Sebastián in May 21 and 22.
The goal of this event is to provide a platform for inspiration and development of bottom-up collaborations between our academics and our regional external partners and to further develop cooperation opportunities in our sixth flagship, namely Culture & Creativity.
Twice every academic year ENLIGHT publishes the joint, blended and virtual courses open for application by the student communities of all ENLIGHT universities.
Each course focusing on one of the 6 focus areas of ENLIGHT: Health and Well-being, Digital Revolution and Impact of digitalization, Climate Change, Energy and circular economy, Culture and Creativity, Equity.
Are you looking for a way to identify, analyze, and assess the impact of your university initiatives? The ENLIGHT Impact Toolkit is here to help! Whether you're working on education programs, research projects, mobility actions, or outreach initiatives, this free and open tool provides structured guidance, templates, and key questions to support your impact assessment journey.
But that’s not all!
In this session, you will discover Peer Community In (PCI), a non-profit initiative offering free, transparent peer review for preprints. PCI ensures rigorous evaluation across 18 thematic communities, providing DOIs and citability without requiring journal publication. Alain Queffelec (University of Bordeaux) will present PCI’s structure, benefits, and impact on scientific publishing, followed by an open discussion. Stay tuned for details!
More inforamtion and registration link you will find here.
