News

News and events

Project milestones, calls for participation, training announcements and public events.

LITE Start-up Kit

A standalone guidebook consolidating the lessons, tools and templates developed across the project into a single resource to help universities embed leadership-driven teaching excellence.

Guidebook

LITE CTL Institutional Development Scheme

A step-by-step institutionalisation guide for creating, strengthening and embedding Centres for Teaching and Learning into university governance.

Guide

LITE Peer Mentoring Programme

A structured peer mentoring programme for senior leaders, including vice-deans, programme directors, CTL directors and heads of department, delivered through six online dialogue workshops tailored to leadership roles.

Programme

LITE Blended Learning Environment

The learning environment hosts all curricula, materials, recordings and discussion forums. It is open, fully accessible and interoperable with the partners' own e-learning environments, and forms a permanent resource hub within the LITE Portal.

Platform

Four Blended Training Programmes

Each curriculum is piloted through a blended programme combining a self-paced pre-training module, a live online training day with four interactive sessions, and a post-training reflective module to consolidate learning and collect feedback. The programmes run between October 2026 and March 2027.

Training programme

Strategic Leadership and Institutionalisation

This curriculum addresses how university leaders can maximise the impact of CTLs by integrating them into wider governance structures, fostering synergies between leadership and CTLs, and ensuring teaching excellence is recognised and rewarded at all levels. Developed by Charles University.

Curriculum

Impactful CTLs: Tools and Approaches

This curriculum focuses on equipping CTL staff and teaching faculty with strategies for designing impactful training, using artificial intelligence for teaching enhancement, fostering inclusive pedagogy, and supporting career development for teaching staff. Developed by the University of Copenhagen.

Curriculum

Creating Effective CTLs

This curriculum provides practical guidance for establishing, reforming and enhancing Centres for Teaching and Learning, covering organisational design, stakeholder engagement, governance models, and ensuring CTLs are fully integrated into university leadership structures.

Curriculum

Strategic Leadership for Teaching Excellence

This curriculum trains current and future leaders on embedding teaching excellence into institutional strategies, aligning it with career progression and reward structures, and supporting teaching-focused leadership pathways. Developed by the Global Governance Institute.

Curriculum

LITE Best Practice Report

This companion report highlights concrete institutional case studies showcasing successful models of leadership and CTL cooperation in advancing teaching excellence.

Report

LITE Comprehensive Mapping Report

This flagship result synthesises findings from the survey, desk research and partner contributions into a comparative analysis of leadership and CTL institutionalisation across Europe.

Report