A diverse range of courses and opportunities for experience-sharing across SEA-EU member universities are designed to empower lecturers in the alliance with essential green and digital competencies for the future.
These courses address timely and impactful topics such as digitalization, artificial intelligence, and sustainability, equipping educators with tools and insights to navigate and shape the future of higher education.
05/09/2025 – Interaction and communication across the wire: effective methods for hybrid teaching and learning
This hybrid workshop invites participants to explore the challenges and opportunities of designing effective hybrid learning environments. Through hands-on activities, we will examine organisational, technical and pedagogical considerations necessary to facilitate engaging and interactive learning experiences.
A special focus will be placed on activating and communication elements – such as discussions and group work – and how these can be tailored to foster engagement and inclusion among learners in hybrid settings.
These insights will contribute to a toolbox of adaptable practices in hybrid learning environments.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained a deeper understanding of the key principles and considerations for designing effective hybrid learning experiences, as well as practical strategies for implementation in their own teaching.
06/11/2025 – Teaching and Learning Sustainability in Higher Education
This course offers teaching staff at SEA-EU Universities an introduction to higher education for sustainable development (H-ESD). What skills do we need to understand the complex challenges of the present, and to be able to actively and reflectively help shape the future? These “change agent competencies” are different from general academic or disciplinary skills, and require adaptations in our teaching practice so that students can build them. HESD offers a well-researched and tested educational approach for teaching and learning sustainability and these key competencies. The workshop provides practical tools to pragmatically integrate HESD into existing teaching formats of all subjects, with an emphasis on intercultural learning for the SEA-EU setting.
The course will meet online via zoom. It includes inputs, interactive elements where participants can engage the material and learn with/from each other, and impulses for individual application of the course content.
Course Lead: Leonie Bellina works as a teacher, speaker, and consultant on Higher Education for Sustainable Development (H-ESD) in continuing education for university lecturers, curriculum development, and systemic organizational development for universities. She is an Associate Researcher at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen, and researches and teaches in the field of political ecology with a focus on environmental justice, critical sustainability research & socio-ecological transformation, as well as emancipatory education for sustainable development.
14/11/2025 – Incorporating AI and sustainability challenges into university teaching
Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability are cross-cutting topics which are relevant for almost every academic discipline. Both are interconnected and closely tied to major societal transformations and global challenges. This course invites university educators to explore how these themes intersect and to consider their relevance across disciplines.
How can scientists meaningfully integrate AI and Sustainability into their teaching? How can students be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and critical perspectives needed to navigate — and actively shape — a rapidly changing world? What is required to engage students responsibly and creatively with the challenges and opportunities ahead?
This course addresses practical approaches to help university educators embed AI and/or Sustainability aspects into their courses and curricula for example with research-based teaching. It also provides opportunities to exchange experiences and learn from one another.
05/12/2025 – Introduction to generative AI for teaching
In this workshop, we will develop concepts for integrating (generative) AI tools into academic teaching.
We will take a brief look at tools such as ChatGPT, GPT4All, and research assistants like Connected Papers, Perplexity, or Elicit, exploring their potential to enhance teaching, learning, and support student research.
We will also critically discuss issues such as de-skilling and ethical concerns (e.g. bias) associated with the use of generative AI.
This workshop is designed for teaching staff with very little to no prior experience with generative AI.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
