The open European University of the future

On the occasion of EuroTeQ’s first grand finale of our student teams working on challenges, the French Embassy to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Eindhoven University of Technology cordially invite you to a discussion on the open European University of the future and how to include a diverse group of youth into challenge-based learning.

Welcoming remarks by Prof. dr. Isabelle Reymen, director of Innovation Space, Lianne de Jong MSc, project leader Challenges, and David Behar, Counselor for cooperation and cultural action and Director Institut français des Pays-Bas are followed by a short keynote and a discussion.

This event is part of a series on European Universities organized by the Institut français des Pays-Bas in the framework of the French EU Presidency, and in cooperation with
Leiden 2022 European City of Science.

Date: Friday 10 June 2022
Time: 11.30-13.30 CET
Venue: Eindhoven University of Technology, Atlas building room 1.652

Program
11.30-11.45 Welcome by prof. dr. Isabelle Reymen and Lianne de Jong MSc, TU/e Innovation Space
11.45-12.00 Facing Great Challenges: The European University Initiative. David Behar, Counselor for cooperation and cultural action and Director Institut français des Pays-Bas
12.00-13.00 Lunch and workshop Open university: what kind of role do companies prefer? by prof.dr. Patrick le Tallec, l’X Paris and ir. Barbara Winkelhuyzen, TU/e.
In parallel:
12.00-13.00 Lunch and workshop Co creating the collider: how to involve a wide variety of youth (16-25) to innovate desirable futures together in the Brainport region? By Lianne de Jong, TU/e
13.00-13.30 Meeting with TU/e and l’X students who participate in the EuroTeQaThon

Feel free to share this with colleagues who might be interested. Please register by sending a mail to Tamara Busscher secretariaat.graduateschool@tue.nl.

The working language will be English. More details on the programme below.

Feel free to join our EuroTeQ Collider activities in the afternoon
From 10 to 12 June 2022, as the European University Alliance EuroTeQ will launch her first EuroTeQaThon. The EuroTeQaThon is the grand finale of the Collider and is at the heart of our European University. This challenge-based learning competition will encourage mixed teams to explore specific subjects together and work on innovative projects. As students and professionals will work together in a joint effort, all participants will not only improve their technical skills but also enhance their soft skills such as team spirit, flexibility to work in multicultural environments, and design thinking, which are also very important in professional life. In this grand final, students from the six EuroTeQ partners will show their work on the Theme Leave no waste behind with a focus on three topic domains: Cities, Energy and Consumption in three different locations.

To celebrate the process and outcomes of the first challenge, the French Embassy in The Netherlands and Eindhoven University of Technology will organize this joint event.

For those of you who want to see more of the EuroTeQaThon:

13.30-15:30 Pitches student teams and time to vote for 3 TU/e teams who can present their pitch in the grand finale
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.15 Start EuroTeQaThon: grand finale top teams