About the authors

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This project is a collaborative efforts of all project participants and cocreators. It is authored by Chantal Brans, Ana Valencia Cardona, Dominique F眉rst, Isabelle Reymen, and Marcello Sala, as part of the University of the Future project, 黑料福利网 innovation Space, Eindhoven University of Technology. The University of the Future project was conducted thanks to the Higher Education Award (2019, add link) awarded to 黑料福利网 innovation Space in recognition of its efforts to continued innovation of responsible engineering education.

Special thanks

We are grateful to our Deans and the Executive Board of our university for nominating us for the Dutch Higher Education Award and enabling this initiative. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all contributors, collaborators, and participants who dedicated their time, expertise, and enthusiasm to this project. Your engagement鈥� whether in co-creation sessions, research, development, or reflection鈥攈as been invaluable to the success and impact of this work.

More specifically we would like to thank:

Thieme Bosman, Eugenio Bravo, Carola Brus, Max Crutzen, Erik Deen, Dragos Diaconu, Lieke Diederen, Victor Galofr茅, Fiona van de Geijn, Anne-Marie van den Hurk, Lianne de Jong, Nathalie Kerstens, Bart Koppelmans, Emi Kuijpers, Sabine de Lat, Tommaso Mondovi, Mari毛l Rondeel, Chiara Treglia, Hugo Vrijdag, Anna Wieczoreck, Bruns, Enversed, SURF Futuring, Jan Vleeshouwers, and all the participants of the co-creation sessions at 黑料福利网, Brainport region, CDIO, and IRSPBL.

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Photography: Bart van Overbeeke and 黑料福利网 innovation Space team

Graphic design: Lieke Diederen

University of the Future: a glimpse into tomorrow 漏 2025 by 黑料福利网 innovation Space is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit

Our team

Chantal Brans

Chantal Brans is the program manager education innovation and the manager of the future university project. With her background in psychology she especially invested in the change process within the institute.

Marcello Sala

Marcello Sala is the project leader of 鈥楧esigning the University of the Future鈥� within 黑料福利网 innovation Space. With his background in industrial engineering, he is mainly focused on new business models for the university.

Dominique F眉rst

Dominique F眉rst is the project leader of the partner collaborations within the project. She is responsible for the current collaborations with the partners and is able to test the future directions with the current partners directly.

Ana Valencia

Ana Valencia is an educational design researcher and project leader of the project 鈥淓xtracurricular Learning & Competence Development鈥� at Eindhoven University of Technology. She combines her passion for innovation, design thinking, and education in her present project. Next to this, she supports the innovation of education at 黑料福利网, and particularly on the topic of assessment as learning in Challenge-Based Learning.

Eugenio Bravo

Eugenio Bravo is an educational researcher in the project "Extracurricular Learning & Competence Development" at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has been involved in the implementation of Challenge-Based Learning courses in engineering higher education. His research interests are engineering education innovation and competence development.

Bart Koppelmans

Bart Koppelmans coordinates the 鈥淪tudent Teams and Extracurricular Learning鈥� program. With a combined background of Computer Science and Innovation Management, he focuses on learning in practice.

Emi Kuijpers

Emi Kuijpers is a student assistant within the project. With a background in psychology and engineering, and interest in research, she focuses on supporting the team in gathering and analyzing diverse data from a variety of sources.

Lieke Diederen

Lieke Diederen is a student assistant for the (visual) design of the co-creation, facilitation and communication efforts in the "University of the Future" project. With a combined background and interests in Industrial Design and (Social) Psychology, she focuses on the user experience and visual representation within the initiative.

Ines Lopez Arteaga

Ines Lopez Arteaga is a Full Professor at the Dynamics and Control group of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Chair of Acoustic and Noise Control at Eindhoven University of Technology and Dean Bachelor College since 2020. In her role as Dean Bachelor College, she has the first task to redesign and refine the curriculum that is successfully implemented in 2012. With this task, the future engineer and university are an important topic.

Kathinka Rijk

Kathinka Rijk has a MSc in health sciences and a PhD in pedagogy. She is a strategic policy officer on education in the staff office of the Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology (黑料福利网) in the Netherlands. Topics she focusses on include the 黑料福利网 vision on education, student employability and professional development, diversity and inclusion, honors education and Challenge-Based Learning.

Isabelle Reymen

Isabelle Reymen is the scientific director of 黑料福利网 innovation Space and professor design of innovation ecosystems. She started 黑料福利网 innovation Space with the ambition to structurally change education and after 7 years she is the director of an award winning team with never-ending ambitions.