Mark Bentum receives Comenius Senior Fellows grant
Twenty education professionals receive a Comenius Senior Fellows grant of 100,000 euros that enables them to realize their vision and plans for an innovation or improvement within their own study program. The projects have a duration of at least 24 months and the project leaders are experienced educational professionals with at least 5 years of educational experience. The NRO awards them the grant on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Mark Bentum was awarded within the theme The value(s) of Knowledge.
Try out of a students monitoring system
The universities of technology in Eindhoven and Delft are going to try out a monitoring system to be developed: Automated Prognostic Student Progress Monitoring System (APSPMS). This form of artificial intelligence can continuously monitor, assess and control a student's study development. An important innovation is the use of both soft and hard indicators. This allows the system to predict student performance, adjust it by indicating alternative learning strategies and propose actions that lead to a better end result.
Goal of the Comenius program
The grants and fellowships enable professionals in higher education to implement their ideals and ideas in practice. By facilitating a wide range of educational innovations each year, the program contributes to the improvement of Higher Education in the Netherlands. Furthermore, by demonstrably valuing excellent and inspired teaching, the ministry of education is keen to contribute to more variety in the careers of teachers and researchers at universities and universities of applied sciences. By joining the ComeniusNetwork they can share their knowledge and experience. The whole of higher education can thus benefit from the innovations brought about by the Comenius program.
The Comenius Programme has three ‘tiers’:
- Teaching Fellow (€50,000, one-year project, small-scale innovation)
- Senior Fellow (€100,000, two-year project in a large programme, a faculty or a substantial department of a higher education institution
- Leadership Fellow (€250,000, three-year project, innovation in one or more faculties or a complete institution)
Teaching and Senior Fellows could submit their proposals in any of the three substantive themes, or the open category:
- Inclusive education
- Bildung/ personal development
- Connection with society
- Open theme – the entire scope of The value(s) of Knowledge