Edinburgh Futures Institute is scheduled to host the 2026 Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference on 16 April 2026.

The Call for Papers is now OPEN with a deadline of 16 January 2026.

This year’s Conference will focus on how interdisciplinarity can be supported, structured and created in different educational contexts, including those before and beyond higher education.

A learner’s interdisciplinary journey may start at various points and this Conference will focus on the place for interdisciplinary opportunities – including points within the curriculum as well as physical and intellectual spaces.

The focus will also consider collaborations for transdisciplinarity across disciplines and across organisational boundaries – within universities, with primary and secondary schools, with the local community or external partners.