International Perspectives on the Future of Education and Learning in the Digital Transformation

What do future generations dream of? How do young people envision education, learning and the university of the future – especially in the context of digital transformation and the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI)? What opportunities and risks do they foresee in this evolving landscape?

The ENHANCE Future Lab, taking place at Technische Universität Berlin from 15 to 19 September 2025, will explore these questions. Twenty young people aged 14 to 17 from ten European cities – home to ENHANCE partner universities – have been invited: Berlin, Warsaw, Valencia, Milan, Trondheim, Aachen, Gothenburg, Gdańsk, Zurich, and Delft.

During a one-week participatory, interactive, and creative workshop, participants will develop and share their visions for the future of learning and higher education in the context of digital transformation and the rise of AI. The workshop will focus on exploring both the opportunities and the challenges that digitalization and AI present for the education sector.

The aim of the Future Lab is to explore young people’s perspectives of and make them visible, with the goal incorporating them into university development processes – both in teaching and in the organisational evolution of universities. In addition, the outcomes are intended to inspire further academic research.

Building on its successful debut in 2023, the ENHANCE Future Lab 2025 positions itself as a blueprint for the co-creative involvement of future generations in processes of social and institutional transformation.

Academic Leadership and Coordination:

Prof. Dr. Susann Fegter and Dr. Karen Geipel, Institute of Educational Science, Technical University of Berlin.