Are you an ambitious master student and do you have an interest in sustainable innovation, interactive design, media and communication, high tech technology or festivals? Then join the Sustainable Innovation Into Practice course to turn theory into practice! Work in a multidisciplinary team, come into contact with companies and, instead of making reports or models, make a real product that will travel to different festivals and events.
The course Sustainable Innovation Into Practice is open to Master students of Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University and starts on 16 February.
Interdisciplinary teams
During this 12-week course you will work in interdisciplinary project teams on challenges posed by different problem owners or clients. These can vary from sustainability initiatives at campus, companies and even festivals. Projects vary a lot and can still be in the concept stage or already in the implementation stage but each project has four phases:
- Research & Design: During the first phase you will translate the concept of sustainability together with a chosen project into a viable concept.
- Validation: In the second phase you will build your first prototype(s) to test your concept.
- Implementation: During the third phase you will build the final product which you will test in a suiting real life context.
- Evaluation: The last phase of the course is to test and evaluate whether your product works the way you intended to and to document your findings.
Programme
During the course there will be four general meetings but since each project is different, you will be assigned a personal coach that will help your team throughout the other weeks of the course. During the first general meeting we will provide you with information, inspirational lectures and a workshop to help you choose a project to work on and where you will meet your coach.
During the other general meetings we will end each phase with a Go/No Go presentation where your project will be assessed on feasibility. If you do not pass a Go/No Go presentation you might be able to join and support a different team to continue the course depending on circumstances. Sometimes a reparation can be granted. During the course we will offer special building days to help you with building your project.
Enroll now!
To enroll, send a motivational email to Gertjan de Werk, Programme Manager of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability.
G.deWerk@tudelft.nl.