This Spring School is organised by the University of Groningen, Ghent University, the Huizinga Institute and the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies to stimulate contacts and exchange between PhD candidates and ReMa students in the field of the history of emotions, a flourishing research field that connects different disciplines within the humanities, as well as between SSH and the (neuro)sciences. At least six of these disciplines will be represented in this course: cultural history, neurosciences, literary studies, art history, creative writing and musicology. The aim of the course is not to provide an introduction in the field but to deepen the participants’ knowledge of four topical angles through which emotions in history can be studied. The course will mainly focus on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, but students working on Antiquity or the Modern Period can attend as well.

The mobility taskforce met in San Sebastián with a view to unleash mobility opportunities for students across the alliance

Student mobility is at the core of the ENLIGHT alliance goals: it enables students to have an international learning experience and results from –and also in- increased academic and research cooperation.

The mobility officers´ group discussed ways to work internally and bilaterally so as to increase mobility schemes and numbers among the 300k+ student community of the alliance. A combination of tools including short, semester and virtual exchange activities should be reinforced -so they agreed- aiming for an increased number of learners to benefit from these opportunities.

Also, academic involvement and cooperation is key to set up new disciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation between ENLIGHT partners; to this end, Incubator weeks where lecturers meet and work to internationalize their curricula is providing particularly useful results and should continue being held.

In the belief that a deep understanding of each other´s internal procedures, structures and resources is key to finding an efficient way forward, participants also looked into the institutional, regulatory and contextual complexities that obstruct seamless mobility.

The ENLIGHT mobility taskforce is now even more committed to making ENLIGHT a shared space where student and academic exchange is deeply established and commonplace.

On 31 October, the ENLIGHT University Alliance has launched the call for Impact Awards to recognize and give visibility to ENLIGHT partner universities’ initiatives that are exemplars in planning for and achieving impact. Applications are invited from teams at ENLIGHT partner universities.

Join our next webinar with a short presentation by Sascha Eckhold (Freie Universität Berlin) on “Open Educational Resources and their relation to Open Science” on 4th of November from 10:00-11:30 am (CET)

You are warmly invited to find more information and registration link here: 6th ENLIGHT RISE and Arqus Alliance OS Ambassador Webinar