Join the Final Conference of the European Network on Teaching Excellence!

The consortium partners of the European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE) are delighted to invite you to their final event on “Higher Education Teaching Excellence and the Future of the European Education Area”. The conference will present the outcomes of the E-NOTE project, a Strategic Partnership funded by the Erasmus+ programme (2020-2023) with the view to examining higher education teaching excellence at undergraduate and graduate teaching levels, as well as in the context of PhD supervision. A policy roundtable, featuring representatives from EU institutions and academia, will close the event thus offering the chance to explore these issues in connection … Read More

E-NOTE Policy Expert Meeting in Brussels

The European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE) organised in October two policy events, one hosted by the Czech Senate in Prague, and a follow-up event hosted in Brussels by the Global Governance Institute, one of the E-NOTE consortium partners. The Brussels event focused on “Europe’s Role in Advancing Teaching Excellence”, and consisted of two sessions: a presentation “Towards a European Certificate of Teaching Excellence” given by the project’s principal investigator, Prof. Joachim Koops (Leiden University). The presentation was followed by a panel session with Prof. Jan Eggermont, the Chair of the Education Council of KU Leuven and a member of … Read More

E-NOTE Researchers brief Czech Senate on ‘Excellence in Higher Education’

The European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE) has been invited by the Czech Senate to brief the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions on “Excellence in Higher Education: Czech and European experiences”.  The event, co-organized by E-NOTE, Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Senate under the auspices of the Czech Minister for European Affairs and the Czech European Union Council Presidency, is part of the network’s extensive dialogue with policy-makers and higher education specialists across Europe.  Professor Joachim Koops (Coordinator of E-NOTE and Leiden University), Dr. Tomáš Weiss (Charles University and Member of E-NOTE), … Read More

Coimbra Roundtable on Teaching Excellence

A Roundtable on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education will take place on June 28, 2022, at 3 pm (GMT+1) at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). This Roundtable aims to share and discuss the preliminary results of the Erasmus+ Project European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE), as well as to contextualise this discussion in the University of Coimbra and Portugal contexts. The Roundtable will include an E-NOTE team member and the University of Coimbra’ Vice-Rectors, Dr. Cristina Albuquerque for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Prospective Students and Dr. Cláudia Cavadas for Research and Doctoral Studies. You can … Read More

E-NOTE hosts academic panel at the 2021 UACES Conference

The E-NOTE consortium partners organised an online event as part of the 2021 UACES Virtual Conference – Panel 203: “Teaching excellence – what do we do and ought to do. Towards a European Certificate of Teaching Excellence?”. The event provided a venue for discussion and exchange of views of teaching excellence in European contexts, as well as a platform for highlighting the E-NOTE project’s ambitions. Chair: Silviu Piros, Global Governance Institute Presenters: Prof. Stephanie Marshall (Queen Mary University of London and E-NOTE Advisor), Prof. Joachim Koops (Leiden University), Associate Prof. Hanne Nexø Jensen (University of Copenhagen), Clara Cotroneo (Leiden University)