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04 November 2025
The Sun in My World – Drawing challenge for children aged 6-10
Download flyer in English Download flyer in German Download flyer in French Show us how you see the Sun! Where do you notice sunlight in your day? What does it do in your world – at home, at school, outside, in nature, or in your imagination? Draw your ideas and join our challenge! How to take ...
31 October 2025
New Online Course about “Light and Chronobiology”
We are happy to share that a new continuous education online course on Light and Chronobiology will be launched next week by the Integrative Human Circadian Daylight Platform (iHCDP). The free sessions will provide a comprehensive overview of the role of daylight in human behaviour, molecular ...
24 October 2025
Exhibition “Lighten Up! On Biology and Time” – Coming soon to the MIT Museum
Lighten Up! features fifteen artists with eighteen immersive artworks, installations, and experiential environments related to circadian and seasonal rhythms, sleep and light. The exhibition was originally presented by EPFL Pavilions in Lausanne, Switzerland, curated by Anna Wirz-Justice, Marilyne ...
03 October 2025
The Daylight Awareness Week 2025 programme is here!
Get ready for our richest edition yet! From 3 to 7 November 2025, you are invited to reflect on the many roles of daylight in building healthier, more sustainable societies – and to imagine what a future powered by the sun could look like. From daylight’s impact on (global) health and children&#...
05 September 2025
Lumi’s Delight – A new comic book for curious kids
A Daylight Academy project group has just published Lumi’s Delight, an educational comic book that shows how sunlight shapes life on Earth in a colourful and entertaining way. Following Lumi, a curious ray of light, readers aged 6–10 – and all adults young at heart – can explore how daylight...
03 September 2025
Recent study reveals how daylight powers our defenses
A study, led by scientists at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, has uncovered how our immune system synchronizes with daylight to fight infections more effectively. The Core Finding: Neutrophils (our most abundant infection-fighting white blood cells) have their own internal circadian ...
29 August 2025
Daylight Conversations: new episode out!
In this new episode of Daylight Conversations, Medical Anthropologist Mónica Berger González (Guatemala) and Neuroscientist Manuel Spitschan (Germany) explore the role of daylight in health – from a global, nature-oriented perspective. Their dialogue highlights the richness and potential of ...
04 July 2025
Daylight and myopia relationship explored in DLA project’s new article
Members of the DLA project group “Can daylight protect children from myopia?” have written a new article exploring the relationship between myopia and daylight. Titled: Myopia and daylight—A combination of factors, the paper was published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. First examining ...
21 June 2025
Daylight Awareness Week 2025 – Call for Contributions now open!
As the world needs to move away from fossil fuels, we are entering a new era — one where daylight can play a central role in how we live, work, and care for our planet. Future Solar Societies imagines a world shaped by the power of the sun — not only through solar energy and sustainable ...
16 June 2025
Explore the DLA Annual Conference 2025 through pictures and videos
The Daylight Academy’s Annual Conference 2025 explored ways of how we can translate our growing knowledge of daylight into meaningful action across a range of societal topics. The conference took place from 22-23 May at the Institute for Advanced Study located in the Garching campus of the ...
13 June 2025