It is with great pleasure that we announce the fourth edition of the Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum, taking place on Monday, 20 November 2023 and Tuesday, 21 November 2023!

The first day of the Joint Forum will enable dynamic discussions on current topics relevant to higher education in both regions and society as a whole. Renowned experts from Lower Saxony and Scotland as well as partners from industry and politics will be invited to provide a holistic overview of the different perspectives.

The second day is built on individual workshops hosted by selected academics, staff and students. They are encouraged to present their own ideas for successful collaborations, research and exchange aimed at enhancing the cooperation between higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland.

The Joint Forum is a unique event providing for plenty of opportunity to network, engage in discussions and find new partners across the North Sea.

Further information will follow soon.

Looking back on two successful editions, is with great pleasure that we announce the third edition of the Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum, taking place on Monday, 21 November 2022 and Tuesday, 22 November 2022 as a hybrid conference.

During the first day of the Joint Forum, renowned experts from Lower Saxony and Scotland will be invited to discuss current topics relevant to higher education institutions in both regions as well as partners from industry and politics.

On the second day, our eager academics, staff and students are invited to present their own ideas for successful collaborations, research and exchange between higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland by hosting their own individual workshop.

Next to this, there will be plenty of opportunity to network, engage in discussions and find new partners. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Please find the official invitation here.

At the end of March 2022, the Lower Saxonian Prime Minister, Stephan Weil, accompanied by a political delegation as well as members of the ECAS team, was scheduled to visit the University of Glasgow. 

The aim of the meeting was to reflect on the history of successful and diverse collaboration between Lower Saxony and Scotland thus far, and subsequently to look ahead to what continues to be a promising bilateral academic and political future. Scenarios for various forms of forthcoming cooperation including even more joint study programmes and research groups, as well as the strengthening of existing and the development of new significant projects between the two regions. 

The European Union has launched an EU citizen’s initiative: the Conference on the Future of Europe. Until Spring 2022, interested EU citizens are invited to utter their views on EU policies and actively contribute to the further development of the EU. 

The Ministry of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development in Lower Saxony is funding a workshop for students from Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Leuphana) as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe. The workshop is organized by the European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) in cooperation with Leuphana and the University of Glasgow. Students will jointly work together and develop their own ideas for the future of Europe.

The European Centre for Advanced Studies cordially invites you to the Tandem Fellowship Conference.
We are pleased to announce that the Selection Committee of the Lower Saxony – Scotland Tandem Fellowship Programme has selected the first four tandems, each consisting of two researchers from both regions working together on a project. We received many very good applications from excellent researchers from both regions. The committee has selected four of them who cover an excellent range of topics and represent the research landscape of both regions.

ECAS cordially invites you to the first of many editions of the Joint Seminar Series between Leuphana’s Faculty of Education and Glasgow’s School of Education. The seminar takes place on

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
3 pm – 4:30 pm GMT / 4 pm – 5:30 pm CET via Zoom.

Prof. Stephen McKinney PhD (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Dr. Lars Alberth (Leuphana University Lüneburg) will talk about social inequities and social inequalities experienced during childhood.

After a successful first edition of the Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum, we are thrilled to announce that the second edition will take place on Monday, 22 and Tuesday, 23 November 2021 as an online conference.

The Joint Forum is a two-day event organised by the European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) in collaboration with Leuphana University Lüneburg and the University of Glasgow. The Joint Forum constitutes the perfect platform to enable exchange as well as joint collaborations between academics, staff and students from higher education institutions in both regions.

On the first day, we will hear interesting discussions surrounding partnerships with universities and the impact as well as relevance such knowledge transfer may have for society at large by renown experts. The second day is devoted to academics, staff and students by giving them the opportunity to host their own workshops on joint topics they are working on.

We are thrilled to announce the first of many editions of the Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum set to take place on Monday, 23 and Tuesday, 24 November 2020.

It is a two-day event organised by Leuphana University Lüneburg together with the European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) and the University of Glasgow. It is supported and financed by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK).
The Joint Forum shall build the basis for a yearly returning conference functioning as a networking platform for researchers, academics, staff and students from both countries.

Due to the continued uncertainties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and potential disruption to travel arrangements, ECAS decided to organise the event in an online format.

Digital worlds: contexts, concepts and methodological explorations

Contemporary culture is characterised by the ubiquity of digital media technologies. Techniques of processing, storing, and transmitting data are continuously reconfigured and with them our everyday practices of connecting, relating, sharing, competing, and communicating. In their researchers’ day on Sept 3 2020, the Social and Digital Change Group (SDC) of University of Glasgow and the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) of Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg present some of their current research topics. Together we ask the question how we can understand and shape digital cultures today.

ECAS is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom Meeting!

In 2019, the Council of Europe celebrates its 70th anniversary. This provides a great opportunity to not only reflect on its achievements in upholding democratic values, the rule of law, and human rights, but also to address the challenges that the Council of Europe is currently facing and that it will likely be confronted with in the future.

The Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of Lower Saxony will hold this event together with Leuphana University and the European Centre for Advanced Studies to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Council of Europe. 

On 01 and 02 April 2019, ECAS was officially launched in Lüneburg. For the opening ceremony on the first day, we had the honour to welcome Lower Saxony’s State Secretary for Science and Culture, Sabine Johannsen, as well the President of the University of Glasgow, Sir Anton Muscatelli, and Leuphana University President Sascha Spoun.

On the second day, researchers as well as students from both univerities got together to discuss future collaboration opportunities.