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LET'S CO-CREATE!

As we explained, we want to co-create to get to the best results possible. This is why we are always looking for good ideas or inspiration. Feel free to contact any of our team members via the profiles below. You can also reach out to us by sending an e-mail to uotf@tue.nl. We’ll make sure the message ends up at the right project team member.

DO YOU HAVE A BEST PRACTICE TO SHARE?

We are collecting existing examples that might work for the future university. Do you know a great example of an (educational) institution that has an effective and innovative organizational structure, educational initiative, research strategy, or any other interesting example that you would envision to be of added value in the University of the Future?

Our team

Chantal Brans

Chantal Brans is the program manager education innovation and the manager of the future university project. With her background in psychology she especially invested in the change process within the institute.

Marcello Sala

Marcello Sala is the project leader of ‘Designing the University of the Future’ within TU/e innovation Space. With his background in industrial engineering, he is mainly focused on new business models for the university.

Dominique Fürst

Dominique Fürst is the project leader of the partner collaborations within the project. She is responsible for the current collaborations with the partners and is able to test the future directions with the current partners directly.

Ana Valencia

Ana Valencia is an educational design researcher and project leader of the project “Extracurricular Learning & Competence Development” at Eindhoven University of Technology. She combines her passion for innovation, design thinking, and education in her present project. Next to this, she supports the innovation of education at TU/e, and particularly on the topic of assessment as learning in Challenge-Based Learning.

Eugenio Bravo

Eugenio Bravo is an educational researcher in the project "Extracurricular Learning & Competence Development" at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has been involved in the implementation of Challenge-Based Learning courses in engineering higher education. His research interests are engineering education innovation and competence development.

Bart Koppelmans

Bart Koppelmans is a student assistant for the coordination of the “Student Teams and Extracurricular Learning” program. With a combined background of Computer Science and Innovation Management, he focuses on learning in practice.

Ines Lopez Arteaga

Ines Lopez Arteaga is a Full Professor at the Dynamics and Control group of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Chair of Acoustic and Noise Control at Eindhoven University of Technology and Dean Bachelor College since 2020. In her role as Dean Bachelor College, she has the first task to redesign and refine the curriculum that is successfully implemented in 2012. With this task, the future engineer and university are an important topic.

Kathinka Rijk

Kathinka Rijk has a MSc in health sciences and a PhD in pedagogy. She is a strategic policy officer on education in the staff office of the Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. Topics she focusses on include the TU/e vision on education, student employability and professional development, diversity and inclusion, honors education and Challenge-Based Learning.

Isabelle Reymen

Isabelle Reymen is the scientific director of TU/e innovation Space and professor design of innovation ecosystems. She started TU/e innovation Space with the ambition to structurally change education and after 7 years she is the director of an award winning team with never-ending ambitions.

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