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| Monthly news feed about engineering education in Europe and overseas |
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| 15-18 September 2025 - Secure your spot at the SEFI 2025 Annual Conference at the best price by registering early! Join us in Tampere, Finland, for an inspiring event centered around this year’s theme: "Engineering and Society." - Register here
We're proud to uphold our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, offering free childcare and sponsorship opportunities to ensure accessibility for all. Learn more here.
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| You can still apply for the Doctoral Symposium in Tampere |
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14 September 2025 - This doctoral Symposium in Engineering Education Research (EER) offers PhD candidates the chance to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, guided by senior scholars in the field. Participants will share their dissertation work and exchange feedback. The event is a pre-conference activity for the SEFI 2025 Annual Conference at Tampere University, Finland. - The application deadline is 3 June 2025. Learn more
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| The SEFI Fellowship Award recognises meritorious service to engineering education in Europe. Award recipients may use the expression “Fellow of SEFI” (F.SEFI) as a postscript to their name. Individual members of SEFI working in the field of engineering education for at least five years can be nominated. Recommend a colleague by a nomination letter addressed to [email protected] until 15 May 2025. |
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The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award is now open for nominations until 16 May 2025. This award is given by SEFI to individual teachers or teams of teachers from SEFI institutional members, in recognition of their innovative curriculum development, learning environments, or tools in engineering studies. Download the Francesco Maffioli Award criteria and nomination form 2025.
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| The opportunity to shape the future of SEFI and advance engineering education is here! We are glad to announce this year's upcoming elections for the following positions:
- President (2-year mandate, 01/10/2025-30/09/2027)
- Vice President (2-year mandate, 01/10/2025-30/09/2027)
- 7 Board Members (3-year mandate, 01/10/2025-30/09/2028)
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| SEFI JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT |
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Inmaculada Tomeo-Reyes, Hua Chai and Jayashri Ravishankar from the University of New South Wales submitted a new paper to the SEFI Journal for Engineering Education Advancement. The authores focused on the potential of tutorial-labs to enhance students’ grasp of emerging technical concepts in introductory engineering courses. Read the paper here. |
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| Season 6 started with a ring - literally! Robyn Mae Paul and Kari Zacharias from Canada were the special guests for this episode exploring engineering identiy and tradition in today's changing times. Reminder! We are on the lookout for guests for season 7 which begins this Autumn, so please get in touch if you are interested. |
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| Fresh perspectives: Early-career researchers kick off Sustainability Junior SIG |
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The Sustainability Junior Special Interest Group initiative will meet for the first time on 27 May 2025, 15:00–16:00 CEST. This collaborative space is designed by and for early-career researchers, to foster innovation in sustainability-focused engineering education. Please note that this event is exclusive to SEFI members. |
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| TRAINeng-PDP project results |
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The Erasmus+ TRAINeng-PDP project, a collaboration between KU Leuven, LUT, and TU Dublin, gladly supported by SEFI as associate partner, has come to an end. The project aimed to prepare students for lifelong learning by supporting their personal development process, while also motivating and training lecturers to actively engage in this journey. Through research on educational interventions, implementation of interventions across partner institutions, and the creation of a practical toolkit for, the project provided resources to help engineering educators foster student growth.
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| 13 May 13:30-15:00 Brussels time |
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| 20 May 15:30-16:30 Brussels time |
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| 28 May 15:00-16:00 Brussels time |
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| 4 June 15:00-16:00 Brussels time |
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| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON |
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Leading Engineering Curriculum Transformation: An Integrated Engineering Approach |
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| Are you an engineering academic leader seeking to drive meaningful curriculum transformation? Join this exclusive two-day intensive course, designed specifically for module and programme leaders, heads of education, faculty directors, associate deans, and other senior educators. The course provides a unique opportunity to explore innovative approaches to Problem and Project-Based Learning (PBL), drawing on insights from the UCL Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), a leading model for curriculum transformation in engineering education.
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| Student Sustainability Design Hack at Realize LIVE 2025 |
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| Are you a student passionate about technology and sustainability? Join the Student Sustainability Design Hack at Siemens’ Realize LIVE 2025 in Detroit or Amsterdam! Showcase your innovative and sustainable engineering design skills in our 48-hour engineering design hack. Team up with fellow students to solve a real-world sustainability challenge in consumer electronics – created by Sony – while gaining hands-on experience with Siemens NX and the latest in immersive design. |
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| IACEE - INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINUING ENGINEERING EDUCATION |
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| The Spring Symposium of IACEE (3-4 April 2025) which took place at Purdue University, USA, had a strong in-person SEFI representation with many members of the CEE/LLL SIG in person (Chris Smith, Ellen Sjoer, Hans Ulrich-Heiss, Katriina Schrey, and Patricia Caratozzolo). Patricia and Chris were invited to present on the development of a taxonomy for Continuing Engineering Education (see Frontiers in Education paper and SEFI 2024 proceedings p2681). The session engaged international colleagues by getting further inputs around important CEE terms from the assembled international experts, to refine and further validate the CEE taxonomy. The CEE taxonomy team will use this to inform the development and refinement of the taxonomy. |
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| EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION |
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Skills and education for Europe’s competitiveness |
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The European University Association highlights the urgent need for a strategic and enduring approach to enhance Europe’s lifelong and continued learning capacities. As such, EUA calls for the establishment of a flagship EU initiative for lifelong learning, which would align with Europe’s economic and societal needs and ongoing transformations, be attractive for European and international talent and send a strong, positive signal towards the EU’s global partners and competitors. Read more. |
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| Invest more in European Universities alliances, says draft Parliament report |
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European Universities alliances set up under the Erasmus+ programme should receive more money from the EU, according to a draft report prepared for the European Parliament’s culture and education committee. The non-legislative draft report, prepared by Laurence Farreng from the Renew Europe Group, highlights the need to strengthen existing alliances before expanding the initiative any further. |
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