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The Erasmus+ co-funded Leadership and Organisation for Teaching and Learning at European Universities – LOTUS project (2020-2022) aims to contribute to capacity building and strategic change management for learning and teaching at higher education institutions (HEIs) across Europe, and to demonstrate the potential of various actors (including HEIs, but also ministries, national agencies, university associations, student and staff unions, etc.) to support transformation and innovation in learning and teaching.
The LOTUS final conference, organised by the European University Association in partnership with the LOTUS project consortium, will build upon lessons learnt from the project activities. These activities were conducted under the project’s Leadership Development Programme, which involved individual HEIs in a peer-learning approach, a study report on national developments in learning and teaching in Europe and a series of policy dialogue events that took place in 2022.
Addressing university representatives, European and national policy makers and other stakeholders in higher education, the event will offer a mix of plenary discussions and parallel sessions organised as policy labs, to discuss topics of common interest identified during the project. There will be a specific focus on leadership in learning and teaching, a topic which was explored throughout the project activities.
On the first day (28 September), the event will see input on the topic of leadership in learning and teaching and space to unpack specific current challenges in learning and teaching:
Each of these topics will be addressed in a policy lab. In each policy lab, the participants will be introduced to the lessons learnt through the LOTUS project and will be invited to design key messages on how to support learning and teaching development at institutional, national and European levels. Leadership in teaching will serve as a common thread throughout the policy labs, while the enhancement of learning and teaching will be addressed in terms of collectively finding common ways and values.
On the second day (29 September), each participant will switch to a different policy lab and engage with the key messages designed by fellow participants during the previous day. The event will conclude with a panel providing insights on how the European level or a European approach could take up key messages from the LOTUS policy labs and contribute to the enhancement of learning and teaching.
The outcomes from the LOTUS final conference will feed the LOTUS publication, to be published by November 2022.
