The ENLIGHT Impact Conference will bring international leading impact experts in – and outside the academic ecosystem to exchange and discuss approaches for embedding impact within Universities full spectrum of activities, being in education, in research, in innovation or in societal engagement related activities.

Impact assessment is a practice that is growing in relevance worldwide. More and more organisations are analysing their impacts with the objective of getting evidence, understanding and demonstrating the value of their contributions, in particular, contributions to society. In the Higher Education context, impact is also becoming a higher priority both at the EU and global levels.

ENLIGHT is one of the 44 European University Alliances selected by the European Commission to promote a more globally competitive and attractive European Education Area and European Research Area. Formed by nine comprehensive, research-intensive universities, ENLIGHT aims at undertaking a fundamental transformation of European Higher Education that empowers learners as globally engaged citizens with state-of-the-art knowledge, skills, and innovation potential to tackle major societal transitions and to promote equitable quality of life and sustainability.

Impact is at the core of the ENLIGHT mission and one of the alliance’s distinctive features. As such, ENLIGHT seeks to promote an impact-based culture both within and beyond ENLIGHT universities, including the promotion of a model of good practice of impact-directed management and the integration of impact across higher education, research and innovation.

The ENLIGHT Impact Conference is one of the multiple initiatives undertaken by the alliance to achieve those objectives. It will bring international leading impact experts in – and outside the academic ecosystem to exchange and discuss approaches for embedding impact within Universities full spectrum of activities, being in education, in research, in innovation or in societal engagement related activities. 

 More concretely, the ENLIGHT Impact Conference will be the place to:

· debate how to raise impact awareness, literacy and readiness in higher education; 

· share and learn about different approaches for impact assessment;

· discuss barriers and opportunities for promoting common impact-driven research agenda; and 

· understand how European Universities Alliances are bringing about impact and transforming the European Higher Education Area.

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