EuroTeQ

📅 Online kick-off: 19 February 2026, 13:00–15:00 CET
📅 On-site in Prague, Czech Republic: 9–13 March 2026
📅 Online feedback session: 26 March 2026, 13:00–15:00 CET

Empowering educators for diverse and global learning spaces

In an increasingly interconnected world, teaching in an international classroom demands more than subject expertise - it requires cultural awareness, digital fluency, inclusive practices, and collaborative innovation.

We define an international classroom as a course that is taught locally with international students or across different countries in collaboration. These classrooms offer a unique opportunity to benefit from the diverse perspectives of students and educators, especially when learners can actively engage with both the content and with each other. While managing such complex learning environments poses certain challenges, they also offer a chance to harness the richness of multicultural viewpoints, enhancing the depth and inclusivity of the learning experience.

This Spring School brings together faculties from EuroTeQ alliance universities to explore, experience, and enhance teaching strategies for diverse, international learning environments. 

Through a dynamic mix of workshops, peer collaboration, and hands-on design labs, participants will:

✅ Develop practical strategies for inclusive and culturally responsive teaching
✅ Gain tools and frameworks to design engaging, international learning experiences
✅ Work on collaborative projects with peers from partner universities
✅ Reflect on challenges related to engagement and cross-cultural dynamics
✅ Build skills to support hybrid and online international education
✅ Join a growing network of like-minded international educators
✅ Take advantage of an opportunity for continuous professional development
✅ Explore new digital tools to inform teaching with high-quality education research.
✅ Explore the use of AI in teaching and learning.

By fostering interaction and empathy, international classrooms become transformative spaces - empowering educators to create more responsive and globally relevant learning environments.

Join us to explore, create, and grow as a global educator!

Will be added soon!

Join Us for the First EuroTeQ Teaching Week at TalTech!

We are delighted to invite academic personnel from our esteemed partner universities to the  EuroTeQ Teaching Week in Tallinn, Estonia!
 
🗓 When: March 31 – April 4, 2025
📍 Where: Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia

Why Participate?

The EuroTeQ Teaching Week is a unique opportunity to:

• Collaborate and Connect: Forge meaningful relationships with TalTech’s academic staff, discover mutual interests, and explore opportunities for educational collaboration.
• Engage and Inspire: Give lectures to TalTech students and enrich their learning with your expertise. Gain valuable experience working with international students in a vibrant academic environment.
• Shape the Future: Exchange ideas on innovative teaching practices and fostering continuous professional development in education.

EuroTeQ Teaching Week focuses mainly on teaching, networking and academic exchange. Participants are invited to give lectures.

How to Apply?

Indicate your preferred teaching area and submit your application by February 7, 2025

You can hold guest lectures at our bachelor's or master's level. Offered courses are in various fields, including business, engineering, IT, and natural sciences.  Please review our lectures to see whether your teaching and research area could enhance them.

After your application, we will match you with a TalTech professor, your "academic host" during the EuroTeQ Teaching Week. You will coordinate the content and scope of your guest lectures with your hosting professor.

Travel and accommodation costs are covered by participants (or by ERASMUS funding if applicable). Your home university can fund your participation in the EuroTeQ Teaching Week as Erasmus+ Mobility. If you would like to participate in the programme as part of an Erasmus Teaching Mobility (STA) programme, a valid Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) is required. Please contact the Erasmus coordinator of your home university to discuss these details before you apply.

Lectures

School of Business and Governance

Lecturer	Course	A topic for the guest lecturer
Kirsti Rumma Senior Lecturer	Statistics	Correlation analysis
Vaiva Kiaupaite-Grusniene Senior Lecturer	Cost Accounting	Any topic presenting case studies in accounting is welcome. To show students practical application of accounting.
Natalie Aleksandra Gurvits-Suits Associated Professor	Intermediate Financial Accounting	IFRS accounting for derivatives, revenue recognition, sustainability accounting and reporting, ESG in accounting and audit.
Katrin Kalmurand Visiting Lecturer	Knowledge Management	Knowledge transfer, Knowledge networks, Knowledge retention, open innovation.
Basel Hammoda Early Stage Researcher	Entrepreneurship and Business Planning	Funding and valuation for tech and science startups.
Liis Ojamäe Associated Professor	Research Methods in Business Studies	Using Qualitative research methods in business studies, especially interesting could be a focus on using AI tools in (qualitative) business research.
Ilona Lott Visiting Lecturer	Personnel Management International People Management	People Management Trends and Future of Work; Learning in Organizations with hybrid and new ways of working; Skills for People Management; etc. Working Globally from Anywhere.
Anu Masso Tenured Associate Professor	Recent Issues in Big Data and Governance
Holger Mölder Associated Professor	Contemporary Security Challenges and International Conflict Resolution	Technological challenges to security või Economic security.

School of Engineering

Lecturer	Course	A topic for the guest lecturer
Raivo Sell Tenured Associate Professor	Autonomous Vehicles	Developments in the automotive industry regarding self-driving functions.

School of Information Technologies

Lecturer	Course	A topic for the guest lecturer
Janika Leoste Assistant Professor	Enhancing Social Interaction in Education and Business by using Telepresence Robots	Hybrid learning, then also with remote participation robots or robot assistants. All social and ethical aspects related to AI and LLM are also suitable.
Jaanus Pöial Associate Professor	Algorithms and Data Structures	Using AI to design efficient algorithms
Doris Kaljuste Programme Director	Semester Project	(Digital Health) IT architecture and interoperability Clinical research plan for an innovative technical solution
Muhammad Mahtab Alam Tenured Full Professor		Communication technologies e.g., 5G, 6G, IoT Present specific lectures related to communication systems

School of Science