The FORTHEM WP6 T6.4 team are pleased to invite you to a leadership-level exchange on the topic of
Student and Staff Well-being as a Strategic Governance Issue in Higher Education.
The online workshop will take place on 29 April 2026 from 13:30 to 15:00 CET.
The aim of Task 6.4 was to enhance the well-being of students and staff in the FORTHEM Alliance by developing a shared, evidence-based toolkit. This toolkit is based on good practices identified across partner universities and responds to the growing challenges posed by rapidly changing higher education environments. Through a collaborative process starting in 2023, the task force defined well-being as a multidimensional phenomenon, collected over 160 good practices that could be transferred, and sought to support institutional learning and policy development related to well-being at partner universities.
Based on this, we concluded that there are different strategic approaches regarding the topic of wellbeing for staff and students. This workshop offers university leaders a structured space in which to reflect on a central question:
What strategic decision-making space becomes visible when well-being is treated as a leadership issue?
Using different policy logics (performance and risk; culture and values; governance), participants will have the opportunity to position their own institution, discuss trade-offs, and reflect on the implications of different approaches to well-being.The aim is to foster clarity and awareness at a leadership level, enabling each institution to identify its own meaningful next step following the workshop.
The registeration form is open: https://tally.so/r/68ZbAN