HDS.Forum 2025 - Keynote - Anna Santucci - Across Difference Intercultural Teaching & Learning

HDS.Forum 2025
Keynote Anna Santucci
Across Difference Intercultural Teaching & Learning

What role does intercultural competence play in our teaching practice as inclusive educators across the disciplines? How do cultural awareness and critical engagement with difference intersect with our ability to design and facilitate equitable, transparently aligned learning- centered experiences that foster our students’ growth mindset, purpose, agency, and sense of belonging and mattering? This keynote will explore the meaning of individualization in the context of these key questions, exploring how intercultural skills relate to our ability to design and facilitate inclusive higher education environments.
 

On October 23rd and 24th, 2025, Hochschuldidaktik Sachsen (HDS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Chemnitz (TUC) and the alliance ACROSS: European Cross-Border University hosts the HDS.Forum 2025.

The forum focussed on the question: How does higher education teaching benefit from European university alliances? European university alliances such as ACROSS are driving internationalisation, digitalisation and innovation in teaching. But what are the specific benefits for teachers and students? How can cross-border cooperation sustainably improve university teaching?

The HDS.forum 2025 offered space for exchange, inspiration and best practices. The focus was on new didactic concepts, innovative examination formats, hybrid mobility models and the role of universities as social actors. Renowned experts and practitioners showed how European cooperation is transforming teaching - in a practical, future-orientated and interactive way.

www.hd-sachsen.de/tagungen/hdsforum-2025