January 2026 Creative Campus UK & Europe Newsletter
- Jan 29
- 4 min read
Welcome to the January edition of the Adobe Creative Campus newsletter!
Begin the new year with inspiration and practical resources to elevate your campus! This edition spotlights innovative teaching, creativity, career pathways, and the latest Adobe updates to help faculty and students thrive.
Be sure to check out our customer spotlight for inspiring Creative Campus use cases, and if you haven't already, join our LinkedIn community! Hope to see you there.
Upcoming Events:
Level up your presentations with Adobe Express
Thurs 22 January, 2pm GMT | Live Webinar
Learn how to create dynamic, visually engaging presentations using Adobe Express. Open to staff & students! Click to Register
If you would like to suggest a future topic or co-present a session, please click here.
Academic Innovation Cafe
Creative and AI Skills are Essential for Careers: Employers value adaptability, creativity, and AI proficiency more than traditional degrees. Integrating these skills, especially through Adobe tools, helps graduates get hired faster.
Early Access Boosts Student Outcomes: Introducing creative and AI tools early in education benefits students, influencing major choices and improving job placement rates.
Creative Work is a Career Advantage: Students who use Adobe tools turn class projects into valuable job materials, improving employability and interview success. Faculty can support this by guiding students to build career-ready portfolios.
Read the full report here
Discover how universities are transforming classrooms to drive career success.
Learn how MetFilm School is integrating Adobe Firefly and Creative Cloud to turn classrooms into real career launchpads.
In this session, academic and industry leaders share practical ways to embed creative AI across different programmes, show how Adobe micro-credentials and portfolios increase student employability, and present real examples of students using their Adobe skills to secure jobs faster and advance in their careers.
Discover how your institution can prepare students for a future driven by innovation, adaptability, and creative leadership.
That's a wrap! AEI & Adobe Express Student Academy recap
EMEA Adobe Education Institute: 🚀 Joined live by 1,786 Creative Campus staff & faculty 🌍 43 institutions represented from 10 countries! 🏆 185 badges earned + 170 achieving the AEI fellow credential! | EMEA Adobe Express Student Academy: 🚀 Joined live by 1,187 Creative Campus students 🌍 31 institutions represented from 7 countries! 🏆 650 badges earned + 110 achieving the Influencer credential! |
We loved seeing everyone getting creative in Express, and producing such brilliant work!
Thank you to all who attended, and also to those of you who supported us in raising awareness on campus by promoting for our (first ever) Adobe Express Student Academy!
Customer Spotlight
College of Esports
At the College of Esports, preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow means giving them the tools to create, communicate and innovate today. That’s why Adobe Express has become a vital part of their teaching model.
Bath Spa University
See how Daisy, lead Adobe Student Ambassador at BSU, is developing real-world skills using Adobe Express. Click below to see Daisy's Adobe Express webpage, sharing her top career readiness tips.
Be our next customer spotlight! Submit your Adobe Express use cases here.
For more inspiration, check out our HED use-case portfolio.
Career Skills 101 & Adobe Express Learning Kits
Help your students stand out this semester with Career Skills 101—a quick-start guide to building compelling digital portfolios that make an impression in class, on internship applications, or for graduate school.
Check out Adobe Express Learning Kits, a collection of ready-to-use resources for faculty including free templates, assignment prompts, LMS course modules, and more - designed for any discipline.
Assign user roles for granular access control
Learn to assign access roles to your users and user groups in the Admin Console to have better control over access and permissions.
What's new in Express?
Find tools and content easily with the reorganized editor
On desktop, reorganized menus and the updated toolbar keep your designs front and center and make space for new features.
Turn video podcasts, interviews & demos into clips
Upload any video and let Adobe Express find thehighlights, add captions, and export to any aspect ratio, in seconds.
ChatGPT Integration: Adobe Express is now available in ChatGPT, making it easier to craft engaging social posts, event invitations, and flyers by simply asking.
Adobe Express in Action
Are you using Adobe Express in your work, or as part of the student learning experience? Please let us know by filling out the form here, so we can highlight your work and continue to inspire our Adobe Creative Campus community! Visit our Adobe Express HED portfolio here for inspiration
Useful Resources
Use Case Portfolio (Adobe Express in Higher Education)
Newsletter Archives
Our new newsletter hub includes our latest newsletter edition along with an archive of those from previous months. Please publish the following link on your institution’s Adobe website to keep everyone informed on the latest from Adobe Education.
Best,
Adobe EMEA Higher Education Team
