Crossroads in Academic Continuing Education
An international platform on the future of continuing education at universities.
Connecting ideas, exchanging strategies, facilitating innovation, and exploring limits.
Perspective Beyond Borders
Connecting ideas, exchanging strategies, facilitating innovation, exploring limits

Changing societal challenges require universities to continuously reconsider their role and innovate their propositions to meet future generations’ needs.
CACE is an event series that offers a transdisciplinary platform and connects international academics, experts, and visionaries discussing the future of academic continuing education.
In a yearly digital assembly, participants are brought together beyond borders. New ideas, developments and research findings are shared and discussed. A focus is placed on role concepts, teaching content, organizational models, and financing of continuing education studies. CACE workshops offer the opportunity to co-develop new projects, form new international connections, and intensify collaboration in research, teaching, and management.
Roadmap
2023
ASSEMBLY
BEYOND
BORDERS
Date: November 29th, 2023
Format: digital
Speakers 2023:
- Dr. Philippa Hardman | DOMS
Brave new classrooms: teaching & learning in the post-AI world
>> more information <<- Dr. Elmar Kutsch | Cranfield school
of management
stackability of learning – mind the gap!
>> more inforamtion<<- Prof. Susanna Leong
National University of Singapore |
Unlocking potential through micro-credentials
>> more inforamtion<<- Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D.
European Research Councilr |
Train for certainty, educate for uncertainty – but how?
>> more inforamtion<<- Prof. Séamus Ó Tuama, PhD
University College Cork |
Taking forward perspectives on reflexivity in learning: five capitals
>> more inforamtion<<
2022
ASSEMBLY
BEYOND
BORDERS
Date: December 1st, 2022
Format: digital
Speakers 2022 & thematic focus:
- Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl | Dublin City University
Microcredential movement in the EU - Markus Marti | ZHAW School of Engineering
The power of stackable degrees and modularization – concept, examples and success factors - Daniela Trani | YUFE
The unpaved path towards a European University – from dream to reality - Thierry Koscielniak | leCNAM
Metaversité
2021
ASSEMBLY
BEYOND
BORDERS
Date: October 1st, 2021
Format: digital
Speakers 2021 & thematic focus:
- Antonio Loprieno | European Federation of Academies of Science and Humanities
Continuing Education as an Institutional USP - Susan Grajek | Educause
Digital Transformation: From Learning to Planning to Doing - Betty Vandenbosch | Coursera
Preparing for the New Normal – The Promise of Online Learning - Jörg Schubert | McKinsey
Defining the Skills Citizens will Need in the Future World of Work - George Iwama | Quest University
Reimagining Higher Education-Quest University, an Innovative Approach to Education
2020
NETWORK
BEYOND
BORDERS
Date: December 3rd, 2020
Format: digital
Speakers 2020 & thematic focus:
- Urs Gasser | Harvard University
Re:Image Organized Learning - Miriam Meckel | ada
Catching up with Technological Changes - Ada Pellert | FernUniversität Hagen
Continuing Education: Universities of the Future
Speakers
Assembly Beyond Borders 2022 & 2021

Antonio Loprieno
Speaker
Chairman | Austrian Science Council
President | European Federation of Academies of Science and Humanities, ALLEA (All European Academies)

Susan Grajek
Speaker
Vice President for Partnerships, Communities, and Research | EDUCAUSE

George Iwama
Speaker
President and Vice-Chancellor, Quest University Canada

Betty Vandenbosch
Speaker
Chief Content Officer | Coursera

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl
SPEAKER 2022
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow | Dublin City University

Markus Marti
SPEAKER 2022
Head of Continuing Education | ZHAW School of Engineering

Daniela Trani
SPEAKER 2022
Director of the YUFE Alliance | Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance

Thierry Koscielniak
SPEAKER 2022
Chief Digital Officer | leCnam

Antonio Loprieno
SPEAKER 2021
Chairman | Austrian Science Council
President | European Federation of Academies of Science and Humanities, ALLEA (All European Academies)

Susan Grajek
SPEAKER 2021
Vice President for Partnerships, Communities, and Research | EDUCAUSE

George Iwama
SPEAKER 2021
President and Vice-Chancellor, Quest University Canada

Betty Vandenbosch
SPEAKER 2021
Chief Content Officer | Coursera
Helga Nowotny
SPEAKER 2023

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Philippa Hardman
SPEAKER 2023
Dr. Philippa Hardman
Elmar Kutsch
SPEAKER 2023
Dr. Elmar Kutsch
Susanna Leong
SPEAKER 2023
Prof. Susanna Leong

Séamus Ó Tuama
SPEAKER 2023
Dr. Prof. Séamus Ó Tuama, PhD

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CACE = Crossroads in Academic Continuing Education
CACE is an event series and offers an international platform on the future of continuing education at universities.
You are heartly invited to join the CACE assembly virtually!
Participation is free of charge.
University for Continuing Education Krems – UWK – University for Continuing Education Krems (donau-uni.ac.at)
Registration link will be posted in the roadmap area of the CACE website.