On June 23, 2026, the Academic Coordination Center in the Euroregion Neisse (ACC) held its coordination meeting at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. The focus was on current developments in cross-border higher education cooperation as well as new perspectives for talent recruitment, International Affairs, and regional innovation.

Participating universities included the Technical University of Liberec, the Wrocław University of Economics, Jelenia Góra Branch (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu), the Zittau International University Institute of the Technical University of Dresden (IHI Zittau/TUD), the Karkonosze University of Applied Sciences (Karkonoska Akademia Nauk Stosowanych), and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. The further development of the ACC Journal was also a topic of discussion at the meeting.

The ACC connects universities and research institutions in the Neisse Euroregion and promotes academic exchange across national borders. The ACC’s Young Scientists Conference 2026, held in April 2026, recently demonstrated how this collaboration plays out in practice. Six early-career researchers from HSZG also presented their work there. Maria Zimmermann, a graduate of the Master's degree programme in management of social change, took second place among 24 participants.

At the coordination meeting, the HSZG also presented its current activities in the areas of talent recruitment, internationalization, and semiconductor strategy. The focus was on the “Talent Journey”: from early STEM support in the “Zukunftslernort Oberlausitz” project, through international college preparation, to specialized degree programs, including those related to the semiconductor industry.

Afterward, during a campus tour, the guests were introduced to newly created extracurricular learning spaces on the Zittau campus, including the Green Classroom, the Makerspace, the Wind/PV Tree, and the DLR_School_Lab.