Register for the fourth Arqus webinar on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) for the academic year 2025–26!

Arqus is pleased to announce the fourth webinar in its English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Seminar Series for the academic year 2025–26, which is run by Maynooth University. The topic of this year’s series is effective assessment in English-taught programmes and classes.

Titled “Assessment of global citizenship and entrepreneurial competencies in English-Medium Instruction”, this webinar will be delivered by Dr. Ieva Žebrytė from Vilnius University, Lithuania. It will take place online on Friday, 13 March 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00 (CET).

This session will focus on challenges that lecturers may face in developing fair and culturally sensitive modes of competence-specific assessment in EMI. It will explore the what, why, and how of developing Global Citizenship competences (GCi) and entrepreneurial competences (EntreComp) through an intercultural and practice‑based lens.

Drawing on insights from Māori–Mapuche educational partnerships, neuroscience, and Bourdieu’s theory of practice, we will look at what meaningful learning requires from today’s learners and educators, and how assessment in EMI can leverage students’ cultural and social capitals. Together, we’ll discuss how as practice approaches can open up classrooms for learning from and within ecosystems; how doing, including thinking and saying are deeply interconnected.

We will also reflect on how students’ cultural and social capitals, as well as communities can be intentionally integrated into programme design and assessment to support deep‑level learning. In the second part of the session, participants will exchange experiences and consider how going deep (focusing on students’ fields, habitus and capitals) might require us to also go wide (engaging with the broader educational, entrepreneurial and cultural ecosystems).

About the speaker

Dr. Ieva Žebrytė is an associate professor of at the Department of Business, Vilnius University, Lithuania, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate level courses in Cross-cultural Management and Cross-cultural Negotiations (both taught in the English language). She was previously the Director of Community Engagement of the Faculty of Law and Business Sciences, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile.

Ieva was awarded and successfully implemented a teaching innovation project  titled “Technology-mediated decolonizing teaching-learning of Sustainable Entrepreneurship” (DID20-0009, 2021-2022). Between 2010 and 2022, she taught Business English, Legal English, International Organizations, and International Business in the South of Chile. Her research interests include EntreComp and GCI competence development.

Participation in the webinar is free, but registration is required.