Seminar
Hosted by the University of Ghent, February 5-6, 2026
Navigating cybersecurity challenges in higher education – Safeguarding universities
Universities are a prime target for cyber criminals, from individual opportunists looking for financial gains, to highly organised groups seeking to disrupt IT systems. With their international reach in education and research universities are targeted for the amounts of data they hold in their digital infrastructures and for their large storage capabilities.
The seminar will also look at cyber security and institutional digital resilience with examples of strategies adopted in universities, focusing among others on risk prevention and mitigation, business continuity, transparency and responsibility).
Winter School
Hosted by UPF-BSM, Barcelona, March 22-27, 2026
(Barcelona School of Management – University Pompeu Fabra)
Leading change in strategy and policy – Internationalisation
HUMANE’s Barcelona Winter School is an intensive, peer learning experience, themed around achieving lasting changes in strategy and policy in internationalisation.
The programme is delivered by senior university leaders and experts, with participants working on institutional case studies in multidisciplinary teams. It is designed to enhance your leadership and change management skills, broaden your international professional networks and your personal impact.
Study Visit
Hosted by the Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen, April 22-24, 2026
Organisational Transformation in Higher Education: Governance, Structures and Administrative Reform
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Leadership Programme
Hosted by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (IT), May 17-21, 2026
Preparing for Strategic Professional Leadership
The new HUMANE leadership programme “Preparing for Strategic Professional leadership” is designed to cultivate the leadership skills of experienced professional service senior leaders (e.g. directors and heads of HR, finances, estates, IT, etc.) and large faculties/schools’ directors who aspire to move into more senior positions, become senior leaders of other professional service leaders in their institution and broaden their impact.
The programme will start with an introductory webinar on 17 April 2026, followed by an intensive face-to-face programme in Rome (17-21 May 2026). It will end with a final webinar on 30 September when participants will present an action plan.
The programme will foster out-of-the-box thinking to enhance participants’ ability to connect and respond to the complex issues that are found in more senior roles, to developing broader perspectives and stregnthen leadership capabilities. Participants will work on their leadership challenges in relation to a current unresolved major organisational challenge in their institution. They will work on their individual action plan to address these challenges which they will take back to their institutions.
Annual Conference
Hosted by The University of Edinburgh, June 10-12, 2026
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Summer School
Hosted by the Central European University (CEU), Vienna, September 6-11, 2026
Change Management and Transformation in Universities
HUMANE’s Summer School is an intensive, peer learning experience, themed around transformation – designing it, delivering and making sure it sticks.
The programme is delivered by senior university leaders and experts, with participants working on institutional case studies in multidisciplinary teams. It is designed to be a highly experiential professional development experience that broadens your international professional networks and your personal impact.
Seminar
Hosted by the Warsaw School of Economics, October 8-9, 2026
Elevating the student journey: strategies for engagement and success
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