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03/2025

SEFI NEWSLETTER

Monthly news feed about engineering education in Europe and overseas

SEFI POSITION PAPER

Complementing the conventional: Engineering competencies and skills for an uncertain future is SEFI's newest position paper highlighting the need for Technical, Transferable, and Transdisciplinary Skills for engineers. We invite you to adhere to its principles and champion a holistic approach to education prioritising the development of contextual competencies incorporating knowledge, attitudes, and technical, transferable and transdisciplinary skills. Continue reading.

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    SEFI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

    15-18 September 2025 - As the call for contributions closes tomorrow (1 April), we are delighted to announce the registrations have opened. 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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          DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM

          Applications open for the 9th Doctoral Symposium in Tampere

          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

          SEFI ETHISC SPRING SYMPOSIUM

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          24-26 March 2024 - 35 delegates from around the world gathered at the Royal Marine Hotel in the beautiful seaside village of Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, for the 2025 Ethics Spring Symposium. The event focused on building community capacity in engineering ethics education, bringing together teachers and researchers from diverse career stages and backgrounds. Continue reading

            SEFI REGIONAL EVENTS

            EDUAL conference and World Engineering Day with SEFI in Poland

            3-4 March 2025 - Gliwice and Krakow, PL. SEFI co-organised two events around engineering education bringing international perspectives and the latest trends in engineering education to: 9th EDUAL Conference at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and UNESCO World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development at the AGH University in Krakow. 

            We would like to warmly thank the organisers of these events, Wojciech Sitek and Janusz Szpytko for bringing SEFI onboard!

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            SEFI STRATEGY

            Introducing the SEFI Strategic Plan 2025-2027

            The SEFI’s leadership team developed SEFI's forward-looking roadmap to inspire and guide our engineering education community. Founded on our mission and vision, this plan outlines a dynamic strategy for advancing engineering education to better serve people, the planet, and society at large. 

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            SEFI AWARDS

            Nominate your colleagues

            SEFI Fellowship 2025

            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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            SEFI ELECTIONS 

            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)
            Submit your CV, a motivation letter, and the endorsement form to [email protected] and [email protected] no later than 1 May 2025. More information

              New papers are being submitted to SEFI JEEA. The latest one is by Nenad Bijelic (EPFL), Andronikos Skiadopoulos (Stanford University), Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa (EPFL) and Dimitrios G. Lignos (EPFL) and is entitled "Use of interactive tools in seismic engineering and structural stability to facilitate learning and foster engagement: Application to high-school outreach and university courses". Read here

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                SEFI PODCAST

                As we enter the 3rd year of recording the SEFI podcast, Neil and Natalie bring season 5 to a close with their person highlights from all six episodes. And, as ever, a heartfelt thanks to all listeners from across the world! Season 6 begins next month!

                

                We are on the lookout for guests for season 7 which begins this Autumn, so please get in touch.

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                    SEFI CALENDAR 2025

                    15 April 2025

                    15:30-16:30 Brussels time

                    Making Learning from Failure Accessible to All Students: Considerations for Power, Privilege, and Inequity | The (un)certainty (dis)comfort workshop series by SEFI Ethics SIG 

                    Fiona Rawle, Professor, Dept of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Chair, Toronto Initiative for Diversity & Excellence

                    29 April 2025

                    16:00 - 17:00 Brussels time

                    Enabling a Skilled and Diverse Engineering Workforce with Non-Degree Credentials | The International Handbook of Engineering Education Research

                    Helen L. Chen (Stanford University), Isabel Cardenas-Navia (WORKCRED INC)

                    13 May 2025

                    13:30-15:00 Brussels time

                    Hard hats and power suits: Equipping the next generation of engineering policy-makers | The Routledge International Handbook for Engineering Ethics Education

                    Tom Boersen (Aalborg), Dayoung Kim (Virginia Tech), John Mitchell (UCL), Gastons Meskens (University of Gent), and Andreas Kotsios (University of Uppsala)

                    20 - 23 May

                    SEFI PhD Summer School

                    TU Eindhoven, NL

                    25 - 27 June 

                    SEFI Seminar on Mathematics in Engineering Education

                    Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences – Wolfenbüttel, DE

                    14 September

                    SEFI Doctoral Symposium 2025

                    Applications deadline: 3 June 2024

                    Tampere University, FI

                    15 - 18 September

                    SEFI Annual Conference 2025

                    Deadline for submissions of full papers and workshops: 1 April 2025

                    Tampere University, FI

                    FROM MEMBERS

                    ETH ZURICH

                    EPT Summer Camp

                    The EPT-hub at ETH Zurich is happy to invite PhD students, postdocs and instructors to the EPT Summer Camp 2025, which will take place on 25-28 May in Morschach, Switzerland. The event is dedicated to engaging teaching and transversal skills for teaching, research and beyond. The camp is a great opportunity to enjoy hands-on workshops with our expert coaches and get inspired by special guests. It is is also a possibility to build connections with your peers and teaching colleagues, benefiting from exchange, new friendships and common experiences!

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                      FROM PARTNERS

                      CONFERENCE

                      7-10 December 2025 - University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus in Brisbane. This year’s theme, “Engineering Education: Between the Human and the Digital,” will explore the evolving relationship between technology and human-centered learning.
                      Call for Abstracts is now open—submit by 11 April and registrations open on 28 April. More info

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                          CONFERENCE

                          21–25 September 2025 - in Daegu, Republic of Korea. The 2025 World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) & Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) will tackle the theme, “Engineering Education We Need,” will explore how innovation in education can address emerging technologies and global challenges. More info 

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                              FROM EUROPEAN UNION

                              EU POLICY

                              5 March 2025 - Brussels. The European Commission is introducing the Union of Skills, a plan to improve high quality education, training, and lifelong learning. It aims to: 

                              • deliver higher levels of basic and advanced skills
                              • provide opportunities for people to regularly update and learn new skills
                              • facilitate recruitment by businesses across the EU
                              • attract, develop and retain top talent in Europe
                              • read more

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