The Regional Academies within ENLIGHT are responsible for connecting each university with external partners within their own communities. During the first year of the project each university has reached out to ask their communities what some of their major challenges connected to the five flagship themes are. These challenges will serve as a starting point for ideas on educational units, such as Living Labs, research projects or students’ individual graduation project.

Researchers can already filter their search for challenges with an external partner at any of the nine communities. Students may also easily filter out which challenges are open for graduation projects.

Here you may read more about the work in the Regional Academies.

Here you may brows around in the submitted challenges.

Each year the Dutch Higher Education Guide for Universities (Keuzegids) publishes an overview of different bachelor programmes in the Netherlands. This year, the UG bachelor Global Responsibility & Leadership received the highest score of all bachelor programmes in the Netherlands with an impressive total of 94/100 points. ENLIGHT’s Global Engagement Module (GEM), is part of this programme. 

 “I am truly humbled and proud by the acknowledgement of the Keuzegids”, says faculty director dr. Indira van der Zande, also member of the GEM course designing team within ENLIGHT WP3. “We have always aspired to create an academic environment where students and staff can actively engage in the co-creation of knowledge to contribute to solving the global challenges.” Interested in what makes this programme so special? Find out more here!

On December 8th at 6pm CET, the next ENLIGHT lecture will be hosted and livestreamed online.

Forests are considered one of the most important instruments in the fight against climate change. They have high potential to absorb carbon emissions and play a major role in biodiversity conservation. This session looks at the impact of climate change on forests and their adaptation to environmental changes.