Teaching and Learning Award
The ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Award recognizes a course or programme that has implemented innovative, international pedagogical approaches and learning practices related to the ENLIGHT educational principles. Every ENLIGHT university can nominate one course or programme.
This prize is awarded at the annual Teaching and Learning Conference and gives the course/program or lecturers international visibility. Such examples of best practice contribute to promoting innovative learning formats and teaching methods.
ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Award 2025
Universität Bern wins ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Award
Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, Sara Frey and Zar Chi Aye from the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) won the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning award for their course “Be fair, contextually aware, and conflict-sensitive: key competences for sustainability transformations”.
This masters’ seminar is about how we behave and cooperate in inter-cultural and inter-contextual collaborations such as international projects between Global North and Global South partners. The overall aim of the seminar is to make these collaborations fairer and more equitable, more contextually aware and respectful, more conflict-sensitive and safe, and more mindful, through fostering necessary key competences of the students – our future change agents.
The award ceremony at the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference in Uppsala provided an opportunity to showcase the University of Bern's outstanding teaching to an international audience.
The next Teaching and Learning Conference will take place in Bern from October 22 to 24, 2026.
Contact
Do you offer an innovative course that incorporates the objectives of ENLIGHT? Then contact enlight@unibe.ch. We collect suggestions for suitable courses and programs. The criteria for the Teaching and Learning Award are determined annually by the management committee of the conference and the award.
Disclaimer
The University of Bern's participation in ENLIGHT is financially supported by Movetia. Movetia promotes exchange, mobility and cooperation within the fields of education, training and youth work – in Switzerland, Europe and worldwide. www.movetia.ch