The European Learning & Teaching Forum facilitated the exchange of experience on learning and teaching in changing learning landscapes.
The European Learning & Teaching Forum was EUA’s new event that aimed to provide an opportunity for institutional representatives to meet and discuss developments in learning and teaching at European universities. The topics covered spanned from good practice in teaching enhancement and institutional strategies through to national and European policies. The Forum was in particular aimed at institutional leadership and management with responsibility for learning and teaching, directors of learning centres and learning labs, and academic staff and researchers, but was also open to policy-makers and other interested stakeholders.
The Forum buildt on EUA’s work with its member universities on this topic. Over the past year, EUA has coordinated thematic peer groups where universities across Europe contributed to the exchange of good practices on various organisational, educational and qualitative aspects of learning and teaching. The lessons learnt from these groups will be presented and discussed in the Forum by the universities involved. Alongside this bottom-up approach, the Forum makes use of EUA’s extensive policy work to further the European discussions on learning and teaching enhancement. In this sense, the Forum participants will be provided with recent updates on EUA’s work in the EFFECT project and outcomes of the latest Trends survey. Finally, the Forum discussions fed into the forthcoming policy statement on the core principles for the enhancement of learning and teaching across Europe.
The Forum, organised by EUA in collaboration with the Conférence des présidents d’université (CPU) and hosted by University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), took place on 28-29 September 2017 in Paris, France.
In collaboration with
Hosted by
Rolf Tarrach, EUA President
Gilles Roussel, President, Conference of University Presidents, France
Jean Chambaz EUA board member and Chair of the L&T Forum Steering Committee; President, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Sarah Lynch, Head of Sector Higher Education in Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, European Commission
Michael Gaebel, Director, Higher Education Policy Unit, EUA
Cecilia Christersson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement and Challenge Based Learning, Malmö University, Sweden
Pedro Teixeira, Vice-Rector, University of Porto, Portugal
Wolfgang Deicke, Coordinator of Bologna Lab, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Wyn Morgan, Vice-President for Education, University of Sheffield, UK
Parallel session 2 Embedding generic skills in the curriculum
Paolo Cherubini, Vice-rector, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Magdalena Iordache-Platis, Vice-Rector, University of Bucharest, Romania
Parallel session 3: Strategic anchoring of learning and teaching development
Johanna Warm, Strategic Projects & Program Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Chaired by Petri Sjblom, Director of Academic and Student Affairs, University of Turku, Finland
Alison Robinson Canham, Assistant Director – Professional Practice, Higher Education Academy, UK
Dilly Fung, Professor, Academic Director, UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education, University College London, UK
Jacques Lanars, Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France
Parallel session 5 Curricular and strategic perspectives on research-based learning
Catherine O’Mahony, Manager of the Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, University College Cork, Ireland
Louise Woodcock, Head of Academic and Learning Services, University of Sheffield, UK
Parallel session 6 Enhancing access and transition principles for good practice
Kornelia Freitag, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Professional Development, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Susanne Lippold, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Ann de Schepper, Vice-Rector for Education, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Parallel session 7 Building an institutional teaching community
Angela Weisskoeppel, Special Assistant to the Vice-President for Teaching, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Gillian Moreira, Pro-Rector, University of Aveiro, Portugal
William Kelly, Dean of Teaching and Learning, Dublin City University, Ireland
Parallel session 9 Developing the next generation Student perspectives on research-based learning
Max Peers, MA student, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Reka Gal, graduate student, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Parallel session 10 Supporting diversity in the classroom staff development and student learning
Sunniva Braaten, President of the Student Parliament, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Alvin Birdi, Director of the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching and the Undergraduate Academic Director, University of Bristol, UK
Parallel session 11 Recognising fostering and celebrating teaching enhancement
Joanne Pagèze, Project Leader Défi International, University of Bordeaux, France
Dorota Piotrowska, Rector's Plenipotentiary for Internationalization, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Parallel session 12: National approaches to developing learning & teaching: case studies from Ireland, Norway and The Netherlands
Terry Maguire, Director, National T&L Forum, Ireland
Nina Waaler, Vice-Rector for Education, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
Henk Dekker, Director, Centre of Education and Learning (CEL) of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam (LDE), the Netherlands
Adam Gajek, Vice President, European Students’ Union
Liliana Gorla, HR Director, Siemens France
Patti McGill Peterson, Presidential Advisor for Global Initiatives, American Council on Education, USA
Closing remarks and next steps, Tia Loukkola, Director for Institutional Development, EUA