The Teaching Staff Academy has launched its call for participation to gather workshops for the 2026 training week. 

We are delighted to announce that the third edition of the Teaching Staff Academy Training Week will be held in person from 13-17 July 2026 at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

The different topic can cover (but are not limited to):

• Pedagogical designs for online international and collaborative learning (COIL / virtual exchange…)
• Teachers’ roles, competencies, and professional development in transnational online teaching
• Students’ learning experiences, engagement and identity in international online settings
• Multicultural and intercultural communication in digital learning environments
• Transdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge co-creation across borders
• Inclusion, accessibility, and equity in online international courses
• Digital tools, platforms, and learning analytics supporting international collaboration
• Assessment and evaluation of collaborative and intercultural learning outcomes
• Institutional strategies, policies, and support structures for online international education
• Case studies, best practices, and lessons learned from online international courses
• Ethical, linguistic, and cultural challenges in transnational online learning

Format:

• 2h workshop
• We’re open to formats that facilitate interaction and active peer-to-peer exchange. Please try to conceive and design your contribution as interactively as possible, rather than preparing an extended academic talk or conference paper;
• Workshops can be led either by one participant, or by 2-3 (whether from the same or different EUPeace partner institutions).

Target audience

• Teachers and researchers from the Alliance
• Members of the other EUPeace work packages, especially (but not limited to) WP3 and WP5
• Administrative staff involved in supporting innovative teaching practices
• Master’s students, doctoral candidates and early career researchers (ideally those actively involved in teaching)
• Policy-makers and institutional leaders in higher education

Who can apply?

• Contributors/participants: UMR, UNICAL, UWB, JLU, UNILIM, COMILLAS, SUM, CU, UNSA; all associated partners and supporting the Alliance
• Teachers, educational researchers, and experts in higher education pedagogics and didactics who are willing to impart and share best practices

How to apply?

To apply, please send your subject to eupeacetsa@unilim.fr by the application deadline.

Overall selection criteria:

• Relevance of the topic
• Degree of interactive “added value” from the proposed workshop
• Representative distribution of the training offers between the Alliance partners, and between different career stages

Selection Process:

• The TSA working group will be selecting the proposals.

General information:

• Number of participants will be limited to 3 per institution – 1 student and 2 staff (academic or support staff);
• Participants will receive a certificate of attendance;
• The training week will the funded through Erasmus + Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) scheme – speakers and participants will have to attend 2 2-hour online preparatory sessions – information coming soon.

Call deadlines:

• Opening: 16 February 2026
• Deadline: 30 April 2026