This initiative is embedded within the alliance’s broader framework for pedagogical innovation, reinforcing its commitment to rethinking language education and fostering collaborative, future-oriented teaching practices across European universities.
Cottbus – 19 December 2025. The EUNICE European University alliance has launched the EUNICE Language Academy, a new network‑wide programme that brings together teaching and pedagogical staff from its ten partner universities to share and experiment with innovations in language education.
This programme has been designed by language experts from our alliance for people interested in languages, particularly language teaching and learning processes. At its core, the academy is conceived as an open, rotating series of workshops and talks: each university hosts one session for the entire community, creating a European “lab” for methods, tools and inclusion practices that can be adopted across campuses. All the sessions are offered online and no previous registration is required.
Our partner university in Poland held a kick-off event at the end of last year on ‘Mediation and project-based learning’. The next date, on 29 January 2026 (16:00–17:30 CET), the University of the Peloponnese will host a session on “Inclusive Practices in Higher Education: Supporting Neurodiverse Students through ICT and Multisensory Learning,” followed by the workshop “Designing Inclusive Learning: ICT and Multisensory Strategies for Neurodiverse Students.” A week later, on 6 February 2026 (16:00–17:00 CET), the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu will convene a roundtable, “AI in Foreign Language Teaching: sharing practices, challenges, and insights across EUNICE partners.”
Other topics approached in future sessions will be ‘AI in Language Teaching’, ‘Rethinking Virtual Exchange’ and ‘Transculturality for Teachers’. The complete programme of 2026 sessions and meeting links can be found on the Language Academy page.
Pedagogical innovation
Along with other initiatives like the ‘Digital Thursdays’ and the online courses available in our EUNICE catalogue, the Language Academy contribute towards EUNICE’s wider push to innovate in pedagogy and share resources. All these joint initiatives create an ecosystem across the alliance and feed into sustained practice, credit‑bearing opportunities, and a teacher‑to‑teacher community that keeps momentum between academic calendars.
Other new highlights available in EUNICE’s staff training catalogue include digital didactics, assessment with and against AI, and classroom‑ready tools (from H5P to Canva), alongside language‑focused sessions such as “Better than Kahoot? Teaching (Languages) with Blooket”.
More info in Pedagogical Innovation Training – EUNICE
