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The Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform at Erasmus University empowers radically new ways to do research, education and engagement for a just and sustainable future. We bring together academics, students, non-academic staff and external stakeholders around complex and persistent societal challenges.

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How universities are organising themselves to create societal impact

Exploring how universities in the Netherlands organise to create "societal impact", and its implications for researchers
  • Wednesday 25 Jan 2023
  • Blogpost
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Registrations now open for new Master ‘Societal Transitions’

Students can now directly enroll for the new Master Societal Transition at Erasmus University via Studielink. Pre-applications are no longer required.
  • Thursday 12 Jan 2023
  • Blogpost
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EUR is our university: we have a responsibility to help it change

Long-term structural change requires dialogue and a willingness to build things together, argue the organisers of the Round Table event of Dec 15. A guest blog.
  • Wednesday 21 Dec 2022
  • Opinion
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‘To research very complex problems, you need to work with collaborative research approaches'

Exploring transformative research with Stella Pfisterer
  • Monday 12 Dec 2022
  • Blogpost
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Minor Transformative Change for a Sustainable World challenges students to find solutions

Students of the minor 'Transformative Change for a Sustainable World' have made a personal journey to propose solutions for current consumerism challenges.
  • Wednesday 7 Dec 2022
  • General

DIT stands in solidarity with the evicted students of OccupyEUR

The Design Impact Transition (DIT) platform condemns the eviction of peacefully protesting students and staff at Erasmus University.
  • Wednesday 30 Nov 2022
  • Opinion
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New master program educates students to become leaders for a just and sustainable future

Erasmus University Rotterdam has launched a new transdisciplinary master programme which allows students to study ‘Societal Transitions’. The programme is
  • Thursday 24 Nov 2022
  • Press release
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How can we teach students to challenge and change the status quo?

In this interview, Dr. Ana Vasques shares how transformative education can prepare students to act upon complex sustainability challenges.
  • Thursday 24 Nov 2022
  • Blogpost
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5 tips for engaged researchers

On Monday, 4th of October 2021, researchers and research support staff gathered at the Q building of Erasmus University to find answers to this question.
  • Friday 28 Oct 2022
  • Blogpost
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‘To be more impactful would be to have more time to build relationships’

In the fifth contribution to our ‘Exploring transformative research’ blog series, we talk with Bert de Graaff about his work for the Erasmus School of Health
  • Thursday 8 Sep 2022
  • Blogpost

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