FUCE General Assembly 2024

The Universidad Loyola Andalucia´s Seville Campus will host the next FUCE General Assembly (5-7 June 2024). In this meeting, catholic universities from Europe and Lebanon will reflect on the growing impact of AI on almost every area of life. In addition to reflecting on what is the future of Catholic Universities in an AI age, the attention must also turn to the bigger questions about transparency, control, accountability, regulation and ethics of AI.

While the development of AI has the potential to contribute in a positive way to the future of humanity and education, our immense technological development has not been accompanied by a concomitant development in human responsibility, values and conscience.

For this reason, we encourage you to participate in this critical discussion on the growing impact of AI on our personal and professional lives, on our universities and our world. The education world is just waking up to the scale of this new technology and still struggle with how to respond to its educational and ethical impact. Like many developments in the past, it is not going away. Educators will have to explore how to harness its potential to be an innovative tool in an academic setting to improve students’ learning skills and goals.

Guest Speakers

We will have the pleasure of listening to Dr. Isabel CAPELOA GIL, IFCU President and Rector of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, as well as Mons. Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, who will be guest speakers for our Wednesday evening sessions.

About FUCE

The European Federation of Catholic Universities (EFCU) was created in 1991 with the conviction of being able to offer anew contribution to the network of Catholic universities, building on the positive path of European integration, now close to the achievement of the European Union.

At the end of the 1990s, the FUCE conducted a comparative study that revealed the wealth and commonalities between the different Catholic universities in Europe. It thus showed the need to strengthen existing links, even after the implementation of the Bologna Process, which since June 1999 aimed at making academic qualifications of European universities comparable and encouraging the mobility of students, teachers and researchers.

EFCU brings together Catholic universities in Europe and Lebanon

About Universidad Loyola

Universidad Loyola is part of the Society of Jesus. The first private university in Andalusia, it was created in 2012 and it began its activities in 2013. Today, it has become a reference university in the Spanish Higher Education System due to its academic results, its degree of internationalization, the employability of its graduates and its research projects and activities. Universidad Loyola has seven graduate classes and a current volume of 5,670 students at its three campuses located in Seville, Córdoba and Granada.