Name: European Universities 2030: Building Knowledge Ecosystems for Europe’s Strategic Capacity in an Age of Polycrisis
Start: 2026-06-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-05T21:45:00+02:00
Location: ONLINE

Affective Tensions in AI Use in Higher Education (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

AI, publishing and the education for the future knowledge worker labour market (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

An Analysis of Intergroup Relations, Identities, Conflict Dialogue and Diversity Narratives on Digital Platforms from the Past Decade. Imagefare and Polarization in YouTube Commentary on the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 2014–2023 (in session "Cultural Heritage, Identity & Democratic Cohesion: From Preservation to Political Function")

Between Information Saturation and Climate Experience: Citizen Narratives and Public Understanding of Climate Change in Spain (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

Building a Biodiversity Venture Building Platform for European Universities (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Civil Responsibility in Case of Damages Produced by Robots (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

Co-creative citizen science in advancing social justice: adult immigrants' perspective of language proficiency requirements and associated language testing (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

Countering Hybrid Warfare Campaigns (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

Customers’ Perception of Using Artificial Intelligence in Art Creation and Art Management: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Turkey (in session "Cultural Heritage, Identity & Democratic Cohesion: From Preservation to Political Function")

DigIntMentoRes: Interdisciplinary mentor programme for research in a digital teaching-learning setting (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

Digital Ethics and Human-AI Interaction in Learning Systems: Emotionally Adaptive Dialogue Frameworks (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

EdgeVision: Neuromorphic Vision Based Edge-Powered Haptic Navigation System for Visually Impaired People (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

Educational Futures in Polycrisis: Ukrainian Refugee Youth Between Integration, Belonging and Transnational Human Capital (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

Emotional intelligence and ambiguity tolerance as future-oriented competences in foreign language learning (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

European University Alliances as Platforms for Soft Power and Science Diplomacy: Insights from the FORTHEM Alliance (in session "Opening Ceremony")

Evidence Advisory Bodies for Coastal and Marine Environmental Governance: tensions between administrative traditions and governance innovation in Mediterranean regions (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

From Carbon Neutral to Nature Positive Higher Education Institutions (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

From Deservingness to Precarity: Linguistic Constructions of Belonging in Polish Media Discourse on Ukrainian Refugees (in session "Cultural Heritage, Identity & Democratic Cohesion: From Preservation to Political Function")

From Google to ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence as a New Epistemic Authority in Information (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

From Institutional Repositories to Knowledge Ecosystems: Trust, Visibility and Epistemic Authority in Open Science (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

Gendered mobility trajectories and socioeconomic positioning among Romanian immigrant women in Spain (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

Gendering Symbolic Space: Urban Street Names and the Politics of Visibility (in session "Cultural Heritage, Identity & Democratic Cohesion: From Preservation to Political Function")

Governing the "Black Box": Liability, Ethics, and Human Rights in Algorithmic Medicine (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

How can spectral comparison support scientific decisions? (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

Hybrid Governance Against Labor Exploitation in Agri-Food Systems: Evidence from the NoCap Initiative in Italy (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

ICT as a driver of sustainable business models: the moderating role of AI in retail. (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

Increasing use of chatbots in HE - increasing linguistic inequality? (in session "Multilingualism, Language Justice & Knowledge Infrastructures: Who Gets to Know-and in What Language?")

Intergenerational Memory of Fading Cultural Heritage (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s between the West, the East, and the South” (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

Knowledge Ecosystems for Sustainable Food Systems: AI and Digital Competencies in Education and Cooperation (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Language barriers and language policies in public service institutions: Germany as a case in point (in session "Multilingualism, Language Justice & Knowledge Infrastructures: Who Gets to Know-and in What Language?")

Lifelong learning infrastructures for a skills-first Europe: ai literacy, micro-credentials and adaptive professional upskilling (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Making environmental sustainability issues newsworthy through advocacy journalism (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

Mathematics without fear: Supportive learning environments in early education (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

Medical technology and its human impact – ethical considerations (in session "Technology, Ethics & Human Impact: From Innovation to Consequence")

Migration, Resilience, and War: How Do Ukrainians Narrate Survival? (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

On economic investment agenda for the universities under the EU Global Gateway strategy (in session "Opening Ceremony")

Online schooling: A premise for digital dependency? (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

Opening of the 4th FORTHEM international conference (in session "Opening Ceremony")

Problems with the Definition of the Refugee in International Law and Political Sciences (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

Roblox as a digital space supporting student wellbeing (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

Socio-ecological systems approach to food security in Ukraine in a time of polycrisis (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

Stakeholder-Based Analysis of Inland Aquaculture Development in the Baltic States: A Preliminary Research Framework (in session "Democratic Innovation, Participation & Epistemic Justice: Who Is Recognized as a Knower?")

Surviving the “Hunger Games”: Early-Career Social Science Researchers Navigating Academic Systems across Western European countries (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Sustainability Paradox of European University Alliances (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Sustainability-Oriented Service Innovation, value co-creation and business results: Evidence from Spain (in session "Environmental Humanities & Societal Futures: Narratives That Shape Transitions")

The Middle-Land of the Unrepresented Inequalities: Evidence from the Spatial Distribution of the Foreign Population in Palermo (Italy) (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")

The Role of English in Multilingual Contexts: A Comparison of the Republic of India and the European Union (in session "Multilingualism, Language Justice & Knowledge Infrastructures: Who Gets to Know-and in What Language?")

The University after Human Knowledge (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Traditional universities in European University Alliances - from: Risk Management to: Opportunity Management (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems – The Emerging Research Dimension of European University Alliances (in session "Transforming Higher Education: Governance, Values & Alliances as Strategic Systems")

Understanding Cross-Linguistic Influence: Insights from Child Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (in session "Multilingualism, Language Justice & Knowledge Infrastructures: Who Gets to Know-and in What Language?")

University as a Knowledge Ecosystem for Resilient Democracy (in session "Opening Ceremony")

Will Vocal Technique Become Obsolete? Technology and the Transformation of Actor Training (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

Working While Studying: Employment Precarity, Professional Identity, and Cognitive Transformation Among University Students (in session "Learning Futures: Teaching, Engagement & Cognitive Transformation")

“Antimicrobial resistance is everyone’s responsibility!”: Pluralistic knowledge ecosystems at a time of a health crisis (in session "Migration, Belonging & Plural Knowledge Systems: Beyond Integration to Epistemic Plurality")