Stay curious! – Learning event for all ETH employees
What does lifelong learning mean and what does it bring us to go through (working) life with curiosity? With the learning event in November, we invite all ETH employees to exchange ideas. Be inspired by experts from neuroscience, time research, leadership culture and other exciting topics.
Last autumn, ETH launched the Lifelong Learning Hub (L3H), an initiative for lifelong learning for all employees (see Internal news 20.09.2023). The initiative stands for an active and open examination of ourselves and the world in which we live.
The openness to learn new things and the willingness for self-development are critical success factors in our rapidly changing world – both on an individual level and for our joint work at ETH, as an organisation and as a society.
Whether we ensure that the infrastructure at ETH works every day, whether we issue employment contracts and pay wages on time, provide finances, or carry out public relations work, whether we teach, research, or manage employees – we grow from tasks and challenges every day and learn from them and with our colleagues. In this way, we promote and live a future-oriented learning culture.
Learning starts with curiosity
Curiosity is the basis of all development. Under the motto #Stay curious! a lifelong learning event will take place from 19 to 21 November. All ETH employees are warmly invited to take part and follow their curiosity. The formats are offered partly live on site at ETH and partly online.
We'll kick things off at the ETH AudiMax with the contemporary researcher and best-selling author Hartmut Rosa. Among other things, we talk to him about the acceleration in the (working) world and why – despite all the technology – we feel like we have less and less time. What can we learn to regain our time?
In a panel discussion with internal and external leaders, we will examine the role of lifelong learning in the professional development of managers and team members. The conversation will focus on how employees find time for continuous learning and how we can foster a learning culture that increases team performance and job satisfaction.
Neurobiologist and author Martin Korte will explain how digital technologies influence our brain and our learning and how we can protect ourselves from digital sensory overload.
In short online sessions, employees can familiarise themselves the new ETH learning platform L3H or try out simple AI tools for everyday work.
ETH neuroscientist and trained dancer Emily Cross uses examples from the Social Brain Science Lab to show what happens in our brains when we watch people dance, for example – and how we learn while watching.
To wrap up the learning event, we talk to labor researcher and author Hans Rusinek about the multifaceted crisis of meaning in today's working world, among other things, and what our way of working has to do with the climate crisis.
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