WUR receives Comenius Leadership Fellows in higher education award
The first Comenius Leadership Fellows are granted. Six professionals in higher education will be able to implement their ideals and ideas for educational innovations. One of the scholarships went to WUR and focusses on interdisciplinarity. A theme that is high on the agenda of 4TU.CEE. Each professional is awarded a Leadership Fellow of €250,000 for implementing an educational innovation across an entire faculty or even an entire institution. They were selected from 23 proposals.
About the WUR Leadership Fellow
WUR is awarded for its project ‘Boundary crossing as modus operandi at Wageningen University’. Boundary crossing competence, the competence to work together with others outside one’s own scientific domain, institute, culture or scientific context, is regarded as one of the major competencies needed by future university graduates. Wageningen University aims to investigate how, and experiment with instruments to enable students and teachers to develop the necessary boundary crossing skills; on course level, programme level, and in its university-wide education policies.
ABout Comenius
The Comenius programme stimulates innovation in Dutch higher education. The grants and fellowships enable professionals in higher education to implement their ideals and ideas in practice. By facilitating a wide range of educational innovations each year, the programme contributes to the improvement of Higher Education in the Netherlands. Furthermore, by demonstrably valuing excellent and inspired teaching, the ministry of education is keen to contribute to more variety in the careers of teachers and researchers at universities and universities of applied sciences.
Read the article on the NRO site for more information on the six Comenius leadership fellows.