We are excited to announce that nominations are now open for the ENLIGHT Sustainability Award 2025 and the ENLIGHT Inclusion Award 2025! These awards celebrate the outstanding efforts of students who have shown exceptional dedication to promoting sustainability and inclusion through their projects and initiatives.

Eligible initiatives must be carried out between January 2024 and May 2025. To qualify, nominees must be Bachelor or Master students at an ENLIGHT partner university, and only non-profit, implemented initiatives will be considered. The selected winners will be invited to showcase their projects at the 5th ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, from 8 to 10 October 2025. 

We welcome submissions from across the ENLIGHT network. Applications must be submitted through your university, with each university nominating one initiative per category. To apply, please contact your university’s ENLIGHT office or reach out to your inclusion or sustainability coordinator for the application form and submission details.

ENLIGHT is pleased to announce Iker Callado as a featured voice at Faces of ENLIGHT. A Psychology graduate and educator, he champions inclusion in education and sports, earning recognition at the 2024 ENLIGHT Inclusion Awards. As a coach for Bilbao’s “Athletic” lionesses, he embodies equity on and off the field.

Read the full interview on the Faces of ENLIGHT and stay stuned, more inspiring interviews are on the way!

Join us at the ENLIGHT IMPACT Conference on 27-28 March 2025 in Groningen! Registration is now open!

We look forward to connecting international impact experts with practitioners, academics and management staff to explore and exchange on how to integrate impact into all facets of our universities.

In addition to discussions, workshops and campfire sessions, the conference hosts the ENLIGHT Impact Awards 2025. Our nominees have all made outstanding contributions to advancing knowledge, research and societal impact but who has the best pitch? Who will be the 6 new IMPACT Ambassadors? Find out and vote on the spot.

Find the programme information here.
Please register here.

The ENLIGHT regional academy on Smart, Sustainable cities and communities brought together academics, researchers, professionnals and policy makers in Bilbao to discuss the challenges faced by land planning and determine the key competences to be developped within a future educational programme.

Aligned with the ENLIGHT competence framework and innovative educational methodologies, the cooperation among the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Uppsala University, University of Groningen and Comenius University-Bratislava is building common educational initiatives that will shape future-proof professionals involved in the planning and design of future urban and rural spaces applying sustainability principles.