“Fridays for Research” power synergy within EULiST
How we create a space where hundreds of researchers, staff, and students can meet, exchange ideas, and turn individual expertise into impactful projects.
Read impact storyDiscover how our educators across EULiST build teaching excellence, explore AI and student-centred learning, and foster cross-border collaboration to shape the future of higher education.
Future Educator: Today is an EULiST initiative designed to support the professional development of university teachers and strengthen collaboration across our alliance. By bringing together educators from different countries, disciplines, and institutions, the programme creates unique opportunities to exchange experiences, explore emerging trends in higher education, and develop new approaches to teaching and learning.
Organized as a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), the initiative combines online collaboration with an intensive in-person experience. The programme focuses on student-centred learning and addresses how higher education can best respond to the needs and expectations of today’s students, including Generation Z.
During the sessions, participants explore key topics such as:
Beyond thematic content, Future Educator: Today serves as a vibrant platform for building lasting connections across EULiST. Participants form professional networks, exchange best practices, and identify new avenues for future academic collaboration.
To date, two successful editions have been delivered, each bringing together around 60 participants from across the alliance. Building on this positive momentum and feedback, a new course focusing on Sustainability in Higher Education is currently in development.
The Future Educator is living the idea of the European University; it is integration and collaboration. It bridges the distance between disciplines, places, and people. It creates a joint learning space where educators, together, develop future approaches to teaching and learning within the EULiST alliance. I hope to see ‘The Future Educator: Today’ evolve into a yearly meeting place for educators with a passion to create better teaching and learning experiences.