We are happy to invite you to our next community event on Tuesday March 26. This will prove to be a very exciting event, because we will launch the Knowledge Platform for Impact-Driven Education!
We are proud to show the resources we have developed so far and eager to add new tools from different projects and faculties at EUR! So, mark your calendars and join us for lunch.
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 12:00-13:30 (lunch included)
Location: Paviljoen (Serre)
Registration: send an e-mail to impactatthecore@eur.nl
Program:
12:00 – 12:15 Walk in lunch
12.15 – 12.20 Introduction to Knowledge Platform for Impact-Driven Education
12.20 – 12.35 Crystal Smit shares her e-modules on societal partners involvement in education
12.35 – 12.50 Els Leqlerq shares her tools on strategic impact education
12.50 – 13:00 Kick off exercise
13.00 – 13.20 Sharing is caring: groupwork
13.20 – 13.30 Plenary round-up
About the Knowledge Platform for Impact-Driven Education:
The knowledge platform for impact-driven education is a virtual space to find knowledge and tools for impact-driven education as developed by EUR’s Impact at the Core. In this collaborative effort, we bring together tools we have co-developed with several faculties.
The platform focuses on collaboration with societal partners, experiential learning, social responsibility, and sustainable impact. It provides teachers and learning innovators with factsheets, tools and e-modules that inspire innovative and meaningful education.
Speaker Crystal Smit
Crystal Smit is an assistant professor at the ESSB, where her research focuses on improving the physical and mental well-being of children. In her teaching, she encourages her students to co-create solutions to societal challenges with partners from outside of the university.
With the goal of preparing students for this exciting learning journey, together with Impact at the Core, a set of e-modules were developed. The purpose is to guide students on key issues such as “How to collaborate with societal partners during a project?” “What ethical considerations and professional skills should be taken into account?”, “What is design thinking and how to use it during a co-creation process?”, among others. These practical e-modules will be open to every teacher at EUR who would like to use them with their students! During her keynote Crystal will tell us about the process of developing these modules and her experience using them with students.
Do you want to know more about Crystal and her passion for impact-driven education? Please read this article and get inspired.
Speaker Els Lecrercq
Els Leclercq is an urban designer and researcher. She participates in various projects on the circular built environment at the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft and AMS Institute in Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in how decentralized circular approaches can address global and local societal issues, in which active citizens engagement, datafication and digitalization, and a just sustainable city have a central position.
Els will share a conceptual and structural approach called “The Value Flower Impact Method,” which can be adopted and adapted by teachers and educational developers who want to incorporate (elements of) impact-driven education in their practice. How might educators approach the design of their course or module if they want it to embody impact-driven education? What kind of methods, tools and interventions can be used to support students in their learning journeys? It aims to inspire by providing both a practical and theoretical foundation to develop engaged and meaningful education.
