2026 CG High-Level Seminar on Education Policy, Kraków: “Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: Perspectives from Students and Educators”
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 3-4 November
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming higher education, reshaping how knowledge is produced, delivered and assessed. For students in particular, generative AI tools are already becoming part of everyday learning practices, influencing how they study, write, collaborate, and engage with knowledge. For educators, these tools are redefining teaching methods and assessment approaches. University leadership must therefore listen carefully to both students and educators and bring their views together to shape thoughtful responses that support high-quality teaching and learning.
As highlighted in the last Coimbra Group High Level Seminar in Education, universities must collectively address both the significant opportunities and the complex challenges that arise from the widespread adoption of AI tools. These include embedding AI literacy into academic programmes, reconsidering assessment and curriculum design, ensuring equitable and inclusive learning environments, and rethinking the evolving roles and workloads of educators.
The 7th Coimbra Group High-Level Seminar on Education Policy deliberately aims to shift the spotlight toward those most directly affected by these transformations: teachers and students. Their daily engagement with AI reveals both the practical benefits and the tensions that higher education institutions must now address.
- For educators, generative AI can enhance pedagogical innovation, assessment practices, and feedback mechanisms, yet it also raises critical questions about academic integrity, workload pressures, and the redefinition of pedagogical responsibilities in response to how students engage with AI in their studies. More fundamentally, these developments invite reflection on the nature of teaching itself as a human-centred profession, increasingly shaped by data, technologies and AI-driven systems, and raise questions about the balance between human interaction and technological mediation in educational practice.
- For students, AI offers powerful new avenues for personalised learning, productivity and creativity, however it simultaneously introduces risks related to ethical use, over‑reliance, the uneven development of critical skills and disparities in access to digital competencies. These changes raise important questions about how students are supported in navigating AI and in maintaining meaningful engagement with their learning.
These developments call for informed and coordinated institutional responses. Universities across the sector must move beyond experimentation to define strategic approaches that address biases and ensure responsible, inclusive and effective integration of AI in teaching and learning.
This seminar aims to bring these perspectives together to foster a shared understanding of how generative AI is reshaping learning and teaching in practice. It will engage Coimbra Group Rectors, Vice-Rectors for Education, educators, students and key stakeholders in exchanging experiences, sharing practices and identifying common priorities.
By grounding discussions in the lived experiences, concerns, and expectations of students and educators from across the network, the seminar will support university leadership in:
- Clarifying strategic choices around AI in education
- Strengthening support for students and staff
- Addressing ethical, equity and integrity considerations
- Rethinking assessment and curriculum design
- Shaping institutional policies and governance frameworks
- Identifying future priorities for Coimbra Group cooperation
A forward-looking discussion will also explore “what’s next” for Universities, bringing together leadership, educators, students, and policymakers to reflect on the implications for the future of higher education
The event will contribute to the development of actionable insights and policy-oriented reflections to guide Coimbra Group universities in navigating the transition to “Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI”, supporting both high-level university leadership and everyday pedagogical practice.
For more information, please consult the event web page.