Themes and projects
This web page sets out the three main themes and associated projects within the overarching 4TU+.CEE project: Personal Leadership and Professional Identity. Click on the projects under each theme to read more about them.
Theme 1: Mindset & Individual Adaptation
This theme focuses on developing the internal cognitive, ethical, and continuous habits students need to navigate evolving landscapes independently.
Personal leadership in an AI-augmented environment
Centers on cultivating ethical literacy, critical thinking, and fair use guidelines to adapt to digital transformation.
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Objective: Inventory methods for introducing and assessing AI ethics.
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Focus: Building ethical literacy, critical thinking, and fair use guidelines.
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Leaders: Wout van Wezel and Xiaohua Li.
Personal leadership in continuous learning
Empowers students with the reflective learning habits and agency required for lifelong, self-regulated development.
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Objective: Facilitate student development as independent, lifelong learners.
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Focus: Developing study skills, content mastery, and reflective learning.
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Leaders: Soheil Solhjoo and Jan Albert van Laar.
Entrepreneurship and leadership
Shifts student identities from analytical technical problem-solvers to flexible, uncertainty-managing value creators.
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Objective: Structural integration of technical and entrepreneurial skill sets.
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Focus: Transitioning technical problem solvers into adaptive value creators.
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Leaders: Pedro de Faria, Florian Noseleit, and Arjan Frederiks.
Theme 2: Collaboration & Experiential Learning Environments
This theme explores the interpersonal dynamics and specialized physical spaces that facilitate hands-on, collaborative growth.
Personal Leadership within Teamwork
Looks closely at team roles, dynamic social contexts, and building shared resilience when leadership/followership shifts.
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Objective: Explore the interconnectedness of leadership and teamwork roles.
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Focus: Monitoring student team performance using speech and video tools.
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Leaders: Thom de Vries and Paul van de Tempel.
Training Equipment & Leadership
Evaluates the collaborative and entrepreneurial benefits of hands-on, physical spaces like makerspaces, learning factories, and complex hardware.
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Objective: Evaluate the impact of complex hardware on student collaboration.
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Focus: Utilizing makerspaces, project-based learning, and challenge-based learning.
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Leaders: Gunn Larsen, Mauricio Munoz-Arias, and Charissa Roossien.
Theme 3: Institutional Systems, Curriculum, & Assessment
This theme shifts the focus outward to the architectural structures, assessment protocols, and faculty capabilities needed to scale leadership education university-wide.
Learning activities for leadership and identity development
Focuses on designing a holistic campus ecosystem, developing inclusive curricula for marginalized groups, and training teachers to "teach what they preach".
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Objective: Foster holistic leadership environments across campus.
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Focus: Inclusive curricula, teacher growth, and support for marginalized groups.
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Leaders: Mehran Mohebbi and Martijn van der Steen.
Assessing leadership and identity development
Investigates how to structurally measure difficult-to-quantify competencies across formal, project-based, and informal extracurricular settings.
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Objective: Establish metrics for evaluating complex leadership competencies.
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Focus: Assessing formal curricula, project work, and extracurricular activities.
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Leaders: Pablo Druetta and Ferdinand van der Graaf.