On 19 May, the Estonian Quality Agency for Education organised its spring seminar on the quality of e-learning, where good practices in e-learning were shared, authors of courses worthy of the e-course quality label were recognised, and the e-course of the year was announced.

The Comenius University Bratislava hosted the first physical meeting of ENLIGHT mobility coordinators at the beginning of May. We welcomed colleagues from the Basque Country, Bordeaux, Galway, Ghent, Groningen, Tartu, and Uppsala. Partners from Bern joined online.

On 26 May 2023 at 10.00 CET, the ‘EDLab’ consortium organizes a webinar on the topic of accreditation of joint programmes.

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.

A five days program this summer from 17 to 21 July 2023, including top state-of-the-art topics of AI

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

The ENLIGHT Teacher Education Network developed an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on global citizenship in European classrooms. A BIP is a short, intensive programme that uses innovative ways of learning and teaching, including the use of online cooperation. During the last week of April, 45 students and 12 PhD student coaches from all 9 ENLIGHT partners investigated global citizenship in European classrooms. They used the principles of challenge-based education and worked on concrete topics like multilingualism, trauma background immigrant pupils, diversity, inclusion, gender and sexual orientation, religion… The result: tons of enthusiasm, ideas and concrete recommendation and tips for future teachers!