NEWS & EVENTS

On 7 June 2022, ENLIGHT RISE arranged a workshop on Digital Research Infrastructures with focus on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Speakers from GÉANT as well as University of Gent, University of Göttingen and Uppsala University elaborated on engagement opportunities with the EOSC from perspectives such as life sciences, OpenAIRE, national research infrastructures and SSH. Sixty-four participants from across Europe followed the workshop online. Videos of the sessions are made available on the ENLIGHT YouTube channel. Please find the report on the workshop here.

On 7 June between 11:00 and 15:00 (CEST), the Institute of International and European Law will be hosting a webinar entitled “From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy: Trade and Investment Options - defining the research agenda after COP26, the IPCC Reports and OECD Discussions”.
To effectively combat climate change, big and small reforms are necessary to the current trade and investment systems, both of which often take central stage in discussions on environmental protection.

Recently the ReConnect China project of which the ENLIGHT partner universities Ghent University, University of Tartu, and University of Groningen are member has been selected for funding under the Horizon Europe framework (HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-07).

Date: Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Venue: online via Zoom
Time: 9-12 o’clock CET

Registration deadline: Friday, 3 June 2022
Registration via: https://sunet.artologik.net/uu/ENLIGHT-RISE-WP3-workshop

On May 11^th at 6pm, this semesters’ first ENLIGHT lecture will be hosted and livestreamed online. This session explores the importance of equity in education ranging from stages of early education, the transitional period between high school and tertiary education and unequal prospects of success in academia. The lecture "Equity & Education" takes place in framework of European Universities Week.

The online workshop on best practices of Research and Support Offices (RSOs) will take place on the 22 of April 2022. This workshop builds on the results of the benchmarking report of good practices on RSOs - a deliverable led by the University of Groningen (RUG) together with the University of Bordeaux (UBx) and the University of Tartu (UT).

The Department of Translation Studies at the UT College of Foreign Languages and Cultures is orgnizing in collaboration with ENLIGHT partner Ghent University an international conference on „Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer“. The conference is taking place on 10-11 May in Tartu.

Several partners have launched expression of interest for the next round of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The UG Education Festival will take place from 4 to 8 April 2022. We invite all ENLIGHT partners to join us in a full week of mostly online lectures, panel discussions, workshops and videos.