Impact is at the core of the mission of ENLIGHT and, as such, one of its main objectives is to promote an impact-based culture within ENLIGHT universities, including the promotion of a model of good practice of impact-directed management and the integration of impact across Higher Education, Research and Innovation activities.

For that purpose, ENLIGHT research impact team has developed a repository of international good practices on research impact assessment and measurement; it has also launched the call for Impact Awards to recognise and give visibility to research endeavours at ENLIGHT universities that are exemplars in planning for and achieving impact and nominated the ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors; it has also co-organised the ENLIGHT Impact Conference  on 27-28 March 2025; and has launched an ENLIGHT toolkit for the self-assessment of research impact awareness, literacy and readiness.