Become a changemaker, contributing to innovative sustainable solutions. Get outside your comfort zone and work on real-life problems in an interdisciplinary environment.
The Da Vinci Programme is a 30ECs profile, where you immerse into an educational programme preparing you in becoming a changemaker, an innovator contributing to the transition towards a sustainable future.
During this programme, you will work together with private and public partners on real societal challenges in an interdisciplinary student team.
In this journey, you will be supported by the external organizations and by mentors within the university to help you with the team process and your personal development. Additionally, there will be facilitating inspirational sessions and field trips with you and your team. For more information about the Da Vinci Programme download here the Da Vinci brochure (PDF).
Practical information
- Start: September 9th, 2024
- End: February 7th, 2025
- This course is for Master students, all fields and disciplines
- Students will work on projects with AkzoNobel, Unilever and ETCA.
During and after the Da Vinci Programme you:
- Will be equipped with knowledge, soft and hard skills, and mindset to tackle sustainability challenges.
- Will get experience on interdisciplinary research, stakeholder management and other leadership skills.
- Will practice with creative thinking, building and testing prototypes and critical reflection.
- Will discover how you can add value to an interdisciplinary environment to solve complex problems.
- Will have gained in-depth knowledge on a specific sustainability issue.
There will be 5 different organisations that will each offer one challenge for a student team to work on. Information about these challenges will be published in the Spring of 2024.
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