EIFL staff member Jevgenija Sevcova will travel to Laos to deliver five days of face-to-face training for students and teachers at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FLP), National University of Laos. EIFL staff member Milica Ševkušić will join remotely to deliver sessions on AI tools for research and teaching.

The training will focus on finding, evaluating and using reliable academic information through the FLP E-Library. Participants will learn how to develop effective search strategies, use the E-Library's AI-assisted discovery features, and find scholarly and legal resources in specialized collections, including HeinOnline and Oxford Law.

The programme will combine presentations with practical exercises based on students' own research and thesis topics. Participants will also explore AI tools for academic research and learn how to use Zotero to organize references, insert citations and prepare bibliographies.

The training programme is as follows:

9 November - Two one-hour introductory sessions for first-year students, covering access to the FLP E-Library, basic searching and finding reliable academic sources.

10–12 November - Three days of training for different groups of fourth-year students and teachers supervising thesis writing. Morning sessions will focus on developing research questions and search strategies, finding and evaluating academic literature using the FLP E-Library and specialized legal resources, and practical exercises based on students' research topics. Afternoon sessions will cover AI tools for research and teaching, including hands-on exercises and discussions.

13 November - Practical Zotero workshop for students and teachers who have previously attended FLP E-Library training. Participants will learn how to collect and organize references, manage PDFs, insert citations into Word documents and generate bibliographies.

The training will be delivered in English with interpretation into Lao.