News & Events

Conference “Textuality as social action in Shōwa era Japan”

The international conference “Textuality as social action in Shōwa era Japan” from 28 to 29 September belongs to a series of Japan-focused events held at the University of Tartu since 2018 with the aim of introducing various aspects of Japanese culture and society in an interdisciplinary approach, while bringing together scholars and students from different countries across various academic fields.

University of Galway host European Dialogue Digital Innovation in Health and Wellbeing

University of Galway will welcome 150 researchers, PhD students and external industry stakeholders from across the ENLIGHT network to campus for a special event to address and discuss solutions for global societal challenges. 

The ‘ENLIGHT European Dialogue Digital Innovation in Health and Wellbeing’ runs from 23 to 25 May, 2023 and brings together ENLIGHT universities and external stakeholders to share best practices and foster future research and education collaborations.

Workshop for PhD students and postdocs: Academic careers – the fun and the obligations

Are you interested to learn about what academic employers and panel members who judge grant proposals look for and how you can make the best of your itinerary, so you will enjoy your future endeavors in academia? Then join the webinar on June 14, 2pm – 3.30 pm CET.

Estonian E-course of the year is MOOC created by University of Tartu, University of Groningen, University of Copenhagen, and University Hospital Cologne

 

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 title of the e-course of the year 2023 went to the e-course “How Artificial Intelligence Can Support Healthcare”, created in cooperation of the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, the University of Groningen, the University of Copenhagen and the University Hospital Cologne. The authors of the course are Elena Sügis, Peter Van Ooijen, Daniel Pintos Dos Santos, Rosa Verhoeven and Michael Peter. The title comes with a 2,000-euro scholarship to the authors of the e-course.

ENLIGHT mobility officers meeting in Bratislava

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.

Second EDLab webinar: Accreditation of joint programmes: current practices and future perspectives (26 May)

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

Registration Open: Workshop Beyond XAI

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

ENLIGHT talk by Catherine Bovill (Edinburgh), June 1, 12-2 pm CET

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 quickly became good at Swedish

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.

University of Galway named national SDG Champion

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.

Discovery of the most distant dwarf galaxy detected so far

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.