eTeach annual conference 2025 & symposium Lernraum.Bauhaus invite you to help shape the future
From September 24 to 26, 2025, Weimar will become a future laboratory for innovative learning and teaching spaces. The joint conference "spacing - learning between spaces." brings together the "Lernraum.Bauhaus" symposium and the eTeach annual conference under one roof. Two calls for participation invite participants to rethink and help shape the spaces of learning in a creative, critical and visionary way.
"Spacing" here means both designing teaching and learning spaces and creating connections between them that are conducive to learning. The digitalization of teaching and learning formats at universities is increasingly giving rise to so-called intermediate spaces. The focus is on the question of how physical, digital and hybrid spaces must be designed to enable flexible, participatory and barrier-free learning and teaching.
Call for Participation for the eTeach Annual Conference
The Call of the eTeach annual conference will explore the challenges and potential of digital, virtual and hybrid spaces and focus on the interplay between space, technology and didactics. The focus will be on practical examples and research approaches that show how digital and analog learning spaces can be combined creatively and in a way that promotes learning. The aim is to design "learning spaces" together with teachers and students.
The program of the eTeach annual conference is divided into four overarching tracks:
A: AI and teaching-learning room design
B. Media-enriched testing - new spaces, new formats
C. Learning platforms as digital teaching-learning spaces
D. Scope - Open knowledge, cooperation and future skills
We cordially invite you to play an active role in shaping the content of these topics. Your contributions will help us to disseminate successful examples of good practice, explore the potential for practical implementation and make innovations in university teaching tangible.
Target group
Teachers, students and graduates from all departments and types of university are invited to participate. In addition, contributions are welcome from employees of all universities from the fields of higher education didactics, course development, science management, student service areas and researchers from the field of educational science. We also welcome participation and contributions from university management and representatives from politics and society.
Formats
You can submit your contributions in German or English for various formats (impulse, workshop, theme island or poster session with pitch). Please indicate your preferred format in your submission. Submissions must be in the form of an abstract (maximum length 200 words). We reserve the right to assign your contribution to a different event format together with you for the program design.
>>>>>> To submit an entry: https://www.spacing25.de/
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Call for Participation Symposium Lernraum.Bauhaus
Designing learning spaces
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In "Lernraum.Bauhaus", the design and use of hybrid learning spaces is being researched at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In the prototype learning studio, didactic and technical solutions for interdisciplinary use are being tested in terms of their practical suitability and user experience. Aesthetics and atmosphere play a key role here. The result is a place where we enjoy learning and where we can experiment with different scenarios - from hybrid courses in international teaching collaborations to object transfer in hybrid settings and jazz concerts. We transfer the findings from these diverse uses to other spaces in order to facilitate connections between different locations - locally, nationally and internationally.
Learning between spaces" is the focus of the Lernraum.Bauhaus-Symposium 2025, which is about combining different spatial concepts using technical and didactic methods as well as human encounters in these "wonder spaces".
For our creative supporting program, we would like to offer a platform to everyone who designs, uses, dreams and tells stories about (hybrid) learning spaces: Share your projects and visions, your experiences and memories with us.
The following questions could be addressed:
- What was the most important learning space during my school and university years and to what extent does this experience of space still shape my thoughts and actions today?
- What was the most amazing spatial experience in my own teaching?
- What would my ideal teaching space look like? What (minimal) interventions have I made to significantly change a/my teaching space?
- What do I do as a student to adapt a learning space to my needs?
- What influence do elements such as light, furniture and sound have on the atmosphere in my desired room or a room that I have helped to redesign?
- How can the innovation potential of the space be made visible and tangible?
- How does a teaching space relate to its surroundings, to the architecture, but also to the philosophy of the institution?
- What social futures do I associate with (learning) spaces?
Possible formats for your spatial narratives are visualizations, filmic contributions, (physical and virtual) models or short essays (max. 2 A4 pages). The accepted contributions will be presented in an accompanying exhibition during the symposium and the subsequent annual conference of the eTeach Network Thuringia.
A guided tour of the exhibition is planned during the symposium, in which we ask all contributors to briefly describe their contribution.
>>>>>> To submit an entry: https://www.spacing25.de/
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Location: Bauhaus University Weimar
Date: September 24 - 26, 2025
Submission deadline for contributions: June 15, 2025
September 24, 1 p.m. - September 25, 12 p.m.: Symposium Lernraum.Bauhaus
September 25, 1 p.m. - September 26, 3 p.m.: eTeach Annual Conference
Both events can be attended individually or together free of charge. We are expecting around 130 participants for the program part of the eTeach Network Thuringia and look forward to a wide range of perspectives from teachers, students and various other stakeholders from university practice!
The eTeach annual conference is an annual conference series that brings together the perspectives of various stakeholder groups on the topic of media-enhanced teaching, learning and testing. The eTeach Network Thuringia is funded by the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (TMBWK).
Important dates:
April 22, 2025: Start of the submission phase
June 15, 2025: Deadline for all submissions
June 30, 2025: Feedback on the submissions
21 July 2025: Publication of the preliminary program and start of registration
to the conference
September 23, 2025: End of the registration period
September 24 and 25: Symposium Lernraum.Bauhaus
September 25 and 26: eTeach Annual Conference at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
We look forward to your contributions and hope to welcome you in Weimar!
If you have any questions regarding content or logistics, please send us an e-mail:
spacing@uni-weimar.de
