Project Updates

AI-HED hybrid workshop on AI for Higher Education

A two-day workshop on artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the context of higher education, held on February 26 and March 5, 2025, brought together more than 100 educators from four partner institutions in the Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, and Portugal.

Our colleagues from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, took the brave lead on making this workshop happen.

On the first day of the workshop, two lectures were held:

The Dawn of Truly Personalized Learning

For years, universities have been struggling with a challenge: how to accommodate students’ different learning styles in a system that relies on uniformity The rise of generative AI offers a refreshing approach to this problem.

Traditional teaching methods often fail to take into account the diverse preferences of students. Some people understand concepts better through conversation, while others do better with written material. Until recently, scaling such customized approaches seemed unattainable. However, generative AI is changing this reality.

Philippe Borremans

AI-HED Kick-off Meeting took place in Lisbon in November 2024

On 7 and 8 November 2024, the kick-off meeting for the AI-HED Project took place at the School of Communication and Media of the Polytechnic University of Lisbon (ESCS-IPL).

After many months of working together to prepare the proposal and with the project already in its beginning stages, with various activities already underway and after several online meetings, the team met in person to officially start the project.

Erasmus+ Funding for the project AI-HED - Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching and Learning

Four Higher Education Institutions submitted the application of the project “Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching and Learning” (AI-HED), that has been awarded with 250.000 euros and received 89 points out of 100 by the European Commission.

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) was the applicant organisation, in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna (UAS-BFI), the Polytechnic University of Lisbon (IPL) and the University of Zagreb - Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI).