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We are pleased to announce an upcoming three-day event bringing together stakeholders from across Europe to unpack the impact of digital technologies on contemporary education.

Registration details and the full program will be available soon. For additional information, please contact Dr. Cristina Popescu at cristina.popescu@uni-bielefeld.de

Rethinking quality and accountability in educational technologies
May 26-28, 2026

May 26 - Bielefeld University
Focus on quality 
When does technology become valuable in education?
Workshops and capacity building

May 27 - Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld
Focus on accountability 
Should we trust AI and digital technologies in education?
International conference

May 28 - Bielefeld University
EdTech Talents project meeting 
Closed-door session

About the event

This event brings together diverse stakeholders (educators, students, edtech professionals, researchers, etc.) from across Europe to exchange perspectives through interactive workshops, evidence-informed discussions and invited talks. It offers a space to challenge assumptions and further develop ideas collaboratively.

Why this matters now

Educational technologies are increasingly used in different contexts, sometimes with the idea that their value is self-evident. Yet the ways in which they are introduced and interpreted raise important questions about who defines their value and under what conditions. In this context, the event focuses on two interconnected notions, quality and accountability, both conceptually and in practice.

Quality

Quality is about the value given to educational technologies by various actors. This includes assessment practices, international frameworks, and policy approaches, as well as how certain technologies come to be seen as desirable or worth investing in. It also refers to more personal ways of defining what is good for one’s own teaching and learning practice. Within this landscape, actors may assume they “know how things work”, but do they? Such situations highlight the need for clearer communication and raise questions of explainability and intelligibility. How do various groups make what they do clear to one another? How does this shape how people think and organize their activities?

Accountability

These issues point to broader questions of accountability and responsibility. They may be understood in a focused way, for example, in relation to data protection, transparency of AI processes, bias, or ethics. But accountability can also be approached more broadly. What kind of education of tomorrow are we shaping through today’s decisions? How are responsibilities distributed at both local, national and international levels?

This event is organized within the framework of the European project “EdTech Talents” (Project: 101119689 HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03)