The European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) has closed its Summer School Dubai 2026 with the signing of the Dubai Accord on Academic Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The four-day programme was hosted at Canadian University Dubai and the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, under the theme “From Dubai to the World: Shaping Integrity for the Age of AI.”
The Summer School brought together students, educators and researchers from across Europe and the Middle East to talk about a question that many universities are now facing: how can academic integrity stay strong when artificial intelligence is changing the way students learn, write and do research.
Unlike a typical training programme, the Summer School was built around one goal from the start: to produce a document written by the students themselves. Each day combined lectures, panels and workshops with hands-on writing sessions, where students shared their views and drafted parts of the Accord together. Topics included core academic values, student rights and responsibilities, and practical questions such as where the line is between paraphrasing, patchwriting and using AI tools.
The week ended with the Legacy Launch Ceremony, where the Dubai Accord was read aloud and then signed by students, faculty and partner institutions.
“This week showed me how important it is to involve students directly in policy making and in the conversations about how we handle academic integrity,” said Ing. Veronika Krásničan, Executive Director of ENAI. “They have a perspective that we, as staff and researchers, simply don’t have on our own. If we want policies that actually work, students need to be part of building them, not just told about them afterwards.”
For ENAI, the outcome matters more than the format. The Summer School was not just a place to hear about academic integrity, but a place to build something concrete: a shared statement that students helped write and that institutions are now committing to.
The Dubai Accord will now be shared more widely and will feed into ENAI’s ongoing work on academic and research integrity.
None of this would have been possible without the ECAIU student organisers and volunteers, whose work behind the scenes carried the Summer School from planning to a real, memorable event.
The event was organised by ENAI’s Working Group Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE (ECAIU), hosted by Canadian University Dubai and the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. Dubai served as a destination partner. Turnitin supported the Summer School as Gold Sponsor, with CurveUp and Magic as industry partners and Marwan publishing as the Media partner.
