News & Events

Exhibition on gender and sexuality from Ghent to be shown in University Museum Groningen

On 26 May the University Museum Groningen will open the exhibition PHALLUS. Norm & Form. The exhibition, which was developed by the GUM (Ghent University Museum), takes the visitor on a journey across our ideas on sex, gender, science, and norms. Through art and science our gaze shall be directed towards the nether regions.

Regional Academy of Comenius University invites to online lecture about Drug-related problems

Comenius University Bratislava invites to an online lecture on 4 May 2023 from 9.20 to 11.00 CEST by PHARMDr. ANNA OLEÁROVÁ, PhD., MPH from University Hospital in Bratislava. Aim group of this lecture are students and academics from medicine and pharmacy.

The lecture will be held ONLINE and in ENGLISH. Click here to participate.

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Is your university impact ready? Check it out at the ENLIGHT Toolkit for Self-Assessment of Universities Research Impact Awareness, Literacy and Readiness

ENLIGHT Lecture Series on “Digital Revolution and Impact of Digitization”

The first lecture of this semester, "AI & its Impact on Teaching & Learning", will be livestreamed online on May 10th at 3 pm CET. This lecture is part of the European Universities Week.

Toomas Asser was elected the rector of the University of Tartu

On 20 April, the 292-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 168 votes. The electoral council comprised members of the University of Tartu council, the senate, faculty councils and the student union, as well as professors.  

ENLIGHT offers trainings on virtual exchange collaboration

 Invitation to Virtual Exchange training in the ENLIGHT network 

The ENLIGHT network invites to a series of three events on Virtual Exchange (VE). 

Firstly, a workshop will introduce virtual exchange and its benefits to intercultural collaboration, secondly, a partnering fair will assist interested academics in finding VE partners within the ENLIGHT network, and finally, a tailored training will be provided for those who have defined their goals to jointly develop a VE together with their partner.  
Participation is free of charge, and one person can either take part in one or several of the mentioned events. Registration is open for each session separately.  All sessions are organised in cooperation with UNIcollaboration, a cross-disciplinary professional organisation for telecollaboration and VE in Higher Education. 

ENLIGHT Student Network hosted meeting on Quality Assurance

On 11 April the ENLIGHT Student Network hosted a meeting on Quality Assurance in Education, bringing together representatives from different central student representational bodies across ENLIGHT.

Each representative gave a brief presentation on their organization and university, focusing especially on how quality assurance in education works. Following the presentations, a joint discussion on the topic was held.

International leading experts discuss the Impact of Higher Education at the ENLIGHT Impact Conference (Bilbao, 29-31 March)

Organised by the University of the Basque Country on 30-31 March 2023, the first ENLIGHT Impact Conference brought together 150 international experts from all over Europe to exchange and discuss approaches for impact assessment and for embedding impact within universities’ full spectrum of activities, being in education, in research, in innovation or in societal engagement related activities.

Last call: University of Tartu International Summer University 2023

The University of Tartu International Summer University courses will take place during the first two weeks of August 2023.

There are nine scholarships available for students from ENLIGHT partner universities.Apply now for the courses and the scholarship on the page www.isu.ut.ee.  The call is open until 30 April 

Call for applications 'Learners to Leaders: Nurturing Changemakers Through Global Citizenship Education' (Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens)

The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (BKMC) with the support of the Korea Foundation launches a new program 'Learners to Leaders: Nurturing Changemakers Through Global Citizenship Education'. Apply before 23 April 2023.

Comenius University invites to online lecture Participation in EU politics: Towards deeper democracy-enhancing EU institutions?

Comenius University Bratislava invites to an online lecture on 4 April from 13.15 to 15 CET by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liebert, Prof. em. from University of Bremen (Germany), who is also Visiting Fellow European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance in Florence (Italy). 

In this session we will discuss opportunities for citizens to actively engage with EU politics that are essential for improving democratic legitimacy, equity and sustainability in decision making at the EU level. 

Ghent University is number one university in terms of ERC funding from calls 2022


In the ERC 2022 calls, Ghent University obtained 13 new ERC Starting Grants  and 6 new Consolidator Grants.

In the ERC Starting Grant call 2022, ten researchers were on the main list, and recently two more researchers from the reserve list were awarded a Starting Grant. To top off this result, yet another grantee decided to come to our university with his Starting Grant Project. 

With these high numbers of acquired grants, Ghent University positions itself in the top 3 of 360 institutions having acquired ERC funding from the 2022 Work Programme. Ghent University thereby outperformed all European universities, and only had to let CNRS and Max Planck, both giant institutions, go ahead. This is an overwhelming success!

Recently, Ghent University also celebrated its more than 100 ERC Grants

https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/erc-grants-2022.htm

https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/three-new-erc-starting-grants-at-ghent-university