Are you a master's student at UT? Would you like to learn how to shape desirable futures for others and with others? Learn about new ways to develop yourself personally and professionally.
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Today's complex global challenges call for different disciplines to think and work together. Yet, working with people from various backgrounds can be difficult.
You've likely experienced the struggles of finding common ground. Conflicting perspectives, methodologies, and vocabulary often stand in the way of effective collaboration. Formulating shared goals, setting mutually shared expectations, and understanding everyone's ideas can be complicated.
The Shaping Responsible Futures programme will help you to overcome these challenges. You'll learn to transcend disciplinary boundaries. You'll connect science to society by collaborating with real-world stakeholders. And, you'll build confidence as a responsible change-maker.
In this course, you learn to create tools and materials to support creative group activities, involving people from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds.
Quartile 2 | 10 EC
In this course, you learn all about connecting global challenges with local actions, histories with futures, and actions with reflection.
Quartile 3 | 10 EC
In this course, you will learn how to holistically manage changes in the design, development, and deployment of complex systems.
Quartile 4 | 10 EC
We work with students, teachers, and stakeholders from different disciplinary backgrounds.
Our programme is designed around the real-world challenges of our regional partners.
We help you to define, pursue, and achieve your personal learning goals.
"I believe that the programme greatly enhanced my teamwork skills. I was lacking in aspects that I only became aware of due to the close collaboration with my peers. I became a leader, but not in the traditional sense. Because leadership is not about pointing people the right way anymore, it is about making an impact collaboratively."
"The Master-Insert taught me the importance of working in a transdisciplinary manner. Some of the projects we worked on were so complex, that our individual expertise was not sufficient to come up with novel and effective solutions; it was the synergy of our disciplines that led to the outcomes that we are proud of."
"Over the years, I got a bit lost in what I wanted in life. The Shaping Responsible Futures programme helped me to get a deep insight into my own personality in relation to others. I now have a clear idea of what I personally want to develop and what kind of role I like to fulfil in teamwork."
"I was already quite familiar with different fields of research working together. However, even when combined, we tend to evaluate disciplines and their findings separately. In this programme, we experienced what it really means to think about a problem holistically. We were even encouraged to merge multiple disciplines into new approaches."
🧭 Self-Directed LearningYou get the freedom to pursue your own curiosity
🚀 Novel Educational ApproachYou are trained in activating workshops
⭕ Learning CommunityYou become part of DesignLab's community
💡 Engineering, Design, & Social SciencesYou learn to transcend disciplinary boundaries
🌍 Challenge-Based LearningYou work on real-world regional challenges
💭 Feedback FocusedYou receive feedback instead of grades
🔥 Transdisciplinary Front-RunnerYou experience a one-of-a-kind education
🎓 Shaping Responsible Futures CertificateYou earn an official certificate