The latest news from SEFI and the engineering education community
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| | 📅 25–27 May 2026 📍 Gliwice, Poland
The deadline to register to the European Convention of Engineering Deans is 5 May! ECED 2026 is a space to connect, reflect, and leave with ideas ready for action. Programme highlights include a keynote by Virginijus Sinkevičius (Member of the European Parliament; former European Commissioner), exchanges focused on leadership, university alliances EURECA-Pro Alliance and EELISA European University, as well as industry insights from Mathworks, IBM and Boeing.
Check-out the programme here.
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| | Early Bird Registrations Open |
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📅 7-10 September 2026 📍 Prague, Czechia
Register now to secure the best rates for the SEFI Annual Conference, Europe’s leading event in Higher Engineering Education - Early Bird pricing ends on 3 July! Special discounts are available for SEFI members, and even better discounts await BSc, MSc, and PhD students — making this a can’t-miss opportunity to learn, connect, and grow alongside the best in the field.
More details on www.sefi2026.eu |
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| | Call for Abstracts: 10th SEFI Doctoral Symposium |
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🗓️ Submission Deadline: 1 June 2026
The Doctoral Symposium is a pre-conference day to the SEFI 2026 Annual Conference, and offers PhD candidates an opportunity to discuss their research with a number of well-established scholars in the EER field. During a full day, participants will present their dissertation work and exchange feedback, working in small groups of about three PhD students and two senior participants. |
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| | Register to the SEFI Regional Event 2026 at the University of Aveiro |
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📅 18–19 June 2026 📍 University of Aveiro, Portugal
As part of the Engineering Education Research & Action Week, the SEFI Regional Event 2026 will focus on engineering education for sustainable development, bringing together educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore innovative approaches to teaching and learning in engineering.
The programme will feature a series of interactive workshops, keynote talks, and a public presentation of the findings from the exploratory project “Empathic Engineering Education for Sustainable Development”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). |
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| | OER Recommendations Wanted |
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are available for free and can be used, adapted and/or redistributed without permission (learn more here).
The Digital Learning SIG are looking for OER that showcase good practices in digital learning. Do you have any suggestions that you think would be good to share with the wider Engineering Education community? Perhaps you have an OER that you have developed yourself, or something that you have used or adapted for your own teaching in the past?
Please let us know by completing our OER recommendations form! |
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| | Feedback and peer review is a key part of university life for both educators and students. Despite this, there are still gaps in our understanding how to best provide and make use of feedback.
This episode features Ruth Fisher and Divya Naya (University of New South Wales) who discuss their winning paper of the Best Practice Paper Award at SEFI 2025, titled “Using multistage peer reviews to provide feedback and improve student learning.” The paper was co-authored with Javier Videlo Mario and Shamim Aryampa. |
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| | A Multidisciplinary Capstone Project - A successful experience for engineering undergraduates |
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This paper presents a single-case study of an innovative multidisciplinary capstone project implemented at Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), involving two Engineering Schools. Grounded in constructive alignment and the CDIO (Conceive–Design–Implement–Operate) framework, the project engaged students from three engineering programmes in the design, development, and validation of an automated control system and hydraulic pump test bench for the copper mining industry.
Authors: Diego Poblete (University of Oulu), Claudio Leiva and Victor Flores |
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| | S.E.E. Earth | Educating for Sustainability: Beyond Knowledge and Technology |
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📅 30 April 2026 🕑 11:00–13:00 CEST
How can engineering curricula meaningfully integrate and assess socio‑emotional competences beyond traditional, knowledge‑based approaches? What roles do accreditation, engineering education research, and other key actors play in enabling this shift?
As part of the celebration of International Earth Day, the SEFI Sustainability SIG invites the entire engineering education community to join us as we reimagine what it means to educate the next generation of engineers for a sustainable future.
See the full programme here. |
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| | Register to the next SEFI@work webinars |
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| | A successful SEFI Ethics Spring Symposium |
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This year’s Spring Ethics Symposium ran from 20–24 April in Sofia, Bulgaria, and built on ongoing conversations in engineering ethics education that emphasise the human, relational, and context-sensitive aspects of engineering practice and pedagogy. Empathy, care, and attention offer powerful lenses for reimagining how engineers are educated, not just as problem solvers, but as people embedded in complex social, environmental, and ethical worlds.
Many thanks to Diana Bairaktarova (Virginia Tech); SEFI SIG Ethics Co-chairs Diana Martin (UCL) and Mircea Toboșaru (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest). |
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| | SEFI Joins EU STEM Coalition |
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This April, SEFI Vice-president Johanna Naukkarinen (LUT) travelled to Turkey to introduce SEFI as one of the newest members of the EU STEM Coalition at their 2026 General Assembly.
By joining this platform, we look forward to creating new synergies and unlocking collaborative opportunities that bridge the gap between policy, industry, and education. Together, we will work toward our shared goal of educating the next generation of responsible and resilient engineers so that they are equipped to tackle global challenges. |
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| | CEE Summer Course Series: Learn from a Faculty-Wide Engineering Education Transformation |
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The UCL Centre for Engineering Education invites engineering and STEM educators, programme leads, curriculum designers, and education leaders to take part in a summer short course series focused on leading educational change.
Drawing on UCL’s Integrated Engineering Programme, a flagship example of faculty‑wide, research‑informed curriculum transformation, the series offers insight into a fully implemented approach to change. Through interactive workshops, hands‑on design activities, peer learning, and networking, participants gain practical tools and strategies to enhance project‑based learning and support curriculum innovation in their own contexts. |
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| | NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLITEHNICA BUCHAREST |
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Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Perspectives |
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The national conference “Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Perspectives” took place on 18 April, in Bucharest, Romania in a hybrid format. The conference addressed topics such as epistemology, logic, ontology, ethics, and education, with discussions covering issues related to consciousness, identity, ethical dilemmas, and conceptual analysis, as well as perspectives on formal logic, theories of truth, and medical practice. |
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| | Practical Engineering Education Conference |
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📅 2–3 July 2026 📍Edinburgh, Scotland
A conference to explore the learning that happens when students get hands-on in workshops and laboratories. PEE26 themes include Student-teacher practical engineering interactions, digitalisation and AI in practical engineering higher education, and problem, project, and scenario-based learning. |
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| | 19–22 May 2026 Aalborg, Denmark
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| | 25–27 May 2026 Gliwice, Poland
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| | 27–29 May 2026 Warsaw, Poland
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| | 4–5 June 2026 Istanbul, Turkey |
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| | 19 June 2026 Aveiro, Portugal
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| | 6 September 2026 Prague, Czech Republic
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| | 7–10 September 2026 Prague, Czech Republic
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| | 13–17 September 2027 Sheffield, England
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Save the date! SEFI Annual Conference 2027 University of Sheffield |
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| | SEFI presents at the 72nd ESTIEM Council Meeting |
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Emrah Acar (Instanbul Technical University) member of the SEFI Board of Directors represented SEFI at the 72nd European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management Council Meeting, presenting on the topic "Research as a way of knowing". This participation highlights the strong collaboration between SEFI and ESTIEM. |
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| | Commission invests close to €400 million for postdoctoral researchers |
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Applications have opened for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships support researchers holding a PhD to carry out their research activities abroad and acquire new skills in different disciplines and sectors. Applications will close on 9 September 2026. |
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| | European Union and the United Kingdom enable the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027 |
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By adopting an amendment to Protocol I of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the UK's association to Erasmus+ will place UK learners, staff, education institutions and organisations on the same footing as those in EU Member States and other third countries associated to the programme. |
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