Call for contributions: 2026 European Learning & Teaching Forum

EUA and its Learning & Teaching Steering Committee are inviting proposals for workshops and presentations for the 2026 European Learning & Teaching Forum. The event, entitled ‘Impactful staff development for educational transformation’, will be hosted by the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon on 12-13 February 2026. The deadline to submit proposals is 6 October 2025.

Ongoing developments such as the rise of artificial intelligence, changing demographics, labour market demands and learning needs, as well as larger-scale societal shifts towards a knowledge economy have spurred reflections on how higher education can safeguard its fitness-for-purpose and relevance in the future. These reflections, in turn, have repeatedly pointed to a need for more innovative approaches to learning and teaching. This need concerns all aspects of how higher education is delivered, but the focus of this Forum will be on how staff development can be (re-)designed to facilitate innovation in learning and teaching, with systemic impact on student learning.

How can institutions develop their staff’s capacity to adequately use – and perhaps even themselves develop – innovative pedagogical methods, resources and tools? Which approaches work to give due support and recognition to early adopters, and how can their impact be evaluated? Finally, how can staff be equipped with the agility to adapt to and tackle future educational challenges, and be encouraged to become innovators themselves? These and other questions will be the focus of the 2026 edition of the European Learning & Teaching Forum.

Leadership and management in higher education institutions, researchers, teachers, students, policy makers and other interested stakeholders are invited to submit proposals for presenting practices or research on enhancing, innovating and transforming learning and teaching in higher education at the institutional, national or international level. The proposed topics are expected to relate to the Forum theme. For more information, please consult the call.

An initiative launched by the European University Association in 2017, the European Learning & Teaching Forum is an opportunity for the European higher education community to exchange on institutional practice in learning and teaching, and on European higher education policy. The Forum welcomes members of higher education institutions, in particular vice-rectors for academic affairs, deans, heads of learning and teaching centres, as well as management and students, but also policy-makers and other stakeholders.

Submit your proposal

In case of questions, please contact LTForum@eua.eu.