2030 and beyond: towards responsive and adaptable higher education

2025 European learning and teaching forum:

It has become an accepted fact, if not a truism, that we are undergoing a period of change and disruption that poses numerous challenges to higher education, as well as for society at large. Building agility for unknown challenges that may emerge is thus a key issue for higher education learning and teaching. How can we prepare our students, teachers and institutions for the path ahead? Participants in this future-gazing edition of the European Learning & Teaching Forum will jointly discuss strategies to develop future-readiness in and through learning and teaching. Key questions include how higher education can safeguard its relevance through capacity for adaptation and how graduates can be equipped with responsive and adaptable mindsets.

Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the Forum provides a platform for discussion and exchange of practice on how universities enhance learning and teaching. The Forum also presents the work of the 2024 Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups. It aims to gather higher education professionals working at different levels on matters of learning and teaching to exchange and discuss institutional practice and policy developments. The Forum is an ideal event for vicerectors for academic affairs, deans, heads of learning and teaching centres, and management involved in learning and teaching. It also welcomes students, policy makers and other stakeholders in higher education.