Second EDLab webinar: Accreditation of joint programmes: current practices and future perspectives (26 May)
On 26 May 2023 at 10.00 CET, the ‘EDLab’ consortium organizes a webinar on the topic of accreditation of joint programmes.
Internationalisation in higher education open-access book and portal
Comenius University in Bratislava invites to browse the brand new open-access portal and book Internationalisation in higher education. Supporting peer learning (edited by Gabriela Pleschová and Agnes Simon, 193p.) to learn about diverse ways to internationalise courses in humanities, social sciences and medicine.
Registration Open: Workshop Beyond XAI
A five days program this summer from 17 to 21 July 2023, including top state-of-the-art topics of AI
ENLIGHT talk by Catherine Bovill (Edinburgh), June 1, 12-2 pm CET
Join us in listening to and thinking with Catherine Bovill, who was supposed to give the keynote at last year's Teaching and learning Conference at the University of Göttingen in November 2022.
The AI tool quickly became good at Swedish
The AI tool Chat-GPT has stunned the world with its good language use. Joakim Nivre, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University explained how the language model became so good at Swedish. For the past two years, he has been involved in developing language models based on Swedish texts.
University of Galway named national SDG Champion
This month, University of Galway was designated as a national Sustainable Development Goals Champion for 2023-24 by the Government of Ireland – the first time a university has received the status. The designation recognises the leading role universities play in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Discovery of the most distant dwarf galaxy detected so far
An international team, including the Ikerbasque research professor of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and associate of Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) Tom Broadhurst, used the high resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) combined with a powerful gravitational lens to conclude that the galaxies that formed in the early universe were typically very small, indicating a hierarchical process of evolution from dwarf galaxies gradually merging together as a result of mutual gravity, until massive galaxies such as our Milky Way were formed. The study has just been published in the journal Science.
University of Tartu International Summer University course in Clinical Medicine deadline extended
The application period for the summer course "Contemporary Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures" is extended to 21 May 2023. Apply here!
The summer course will take place on-site in Tartu from 31 July 2023 – 12 August 2023.
First EDLab webinar: Introduction to the joint European degree initiative and ‘EDLab’ project (10 May)
On 10 May 2023 at 13.00 CET, the ‘EDLab’ consortium organizes a webinar presenting its project as well as the context for the joint European degree initiative. This is the first webinar to be organized in a series of webinars to follow on topics related to joint programmes.