Unite! Virtual Education Summit

Registration is now open for the Unite! Virtual Education Summit. The full-day summit focuses on Higher Education for Democracy in a Changing Global Landscape. It will highlight Unite! Seed Fund projects and provide matchmaking opportunities for participants interested in international joint teaching or collaborative degree programs.

In the current global context, delivering education that supports student agency and strengthens ethical and democratic structures is more important than ever. The summit will provide a platform for participants to take part in meaningful discussions and experience inspiring presentations.

The topics are:

• EDIFICITECA, a canonical collection of urban buildings to educate future architects.
• Confluences: Uniting disciplines for sustainable solutions
• Why teach online?: Three practical reasons from an international education perspective
• Proposal Higher Education for Democracy through Inner Development Goals: An Experiential and Inter-University Approach
• Experiences in Collaborative Research-based Learning on Engineering for Industry
• The Role of Japanese Language Education in Cultivating Leadership Skills among Engineering Students Beyond Europe
• The Grenoble Contribution to the Unite! Seed Fund Proposal “Space & Tech UNITE!”: Quality Assurance and Product Assurance
• Shaping the Post-Doc of Tomorrow: Co-Designing Training Pathways for Researcher Mobility
• The midwifery role of education in the continuing rebirth of democracy. On teaching ethics and global ethics at universities
• Towards a Blueprint for Democratic and Transnational Engineering Education: Insights from the Unite! Learning Network
• How to teach European Citizenship: Example of ESA
• Value-driven education? Democratic competence and the educational role of Unite!
• Landing and Lifting: a Pedagogical Method for Utopian Urban Futures

The summit will also feature a keynote presentation by professor Arnold Pears from KTH entitled Human-centric education in the age of AI.

Key information

• What: Virtual Education Summit - The 3rd Unite!-Ed Future Conference.
• When: 12 March 2026.
• Time: 10:00–17:00
• Where: Via Zoom (link to be announced on Metacampus closer to the date)
• Registration: To attend the summit please enrol via Metacampus.

For more information, please visit the official event website.