Award Winner 2024
The Sustainability in Education Award 2024 recognises educators at 黑料福利网 who are making a meaningful impact by embedding sustainability into their teaching. On this page, you will find the 2024 winner, Arjan Kirkels, along with all nominees, highlighting diverse and inspiring approaches to sustainability in education.
Winner 2024 - Arjan Kirkels
Arjan is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at 黑料福利网. His approach, rooted in Challenge Based Learning, fosters creative problem-solving and innovation. 鈥淭hat characterizes my approach. What does a student need to make a real difference later as a young professional? So, I start the course design from a completely different approach: what do I want them to learn, what are the key points, how can we test that, et cetera. In fact, my starting point is precisely the endpoint for the student. And that sometimes results in very creative outcomes. For example, we once taught a course in virtual reality, where the students were all present through life-size screens.鈥