Call for new scientific members for IDEE

What’s IDEE?

The Initiative on Innovation in Delft Engineering Education (IDEE) is a university-wide programme at TU Delft, aiming to strengthen the capacity of innovation in engineering education. The goal is to create a more systematic and evidence-informed approach to educational innovation at TU Delft, and to ensure that the knowledge gained is documented and shared with the wider education community.

Within this initiative, scientific staff members from different faculties work in teams together with a learning developer, PhD candidate and a Postdoc researcher. Each team addresses an educational challenge and aims to make a meaningful impact through the implementation of new practices.

The launch of two new themes

This is the call for joining two new themes: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI and The Transition from Secondary to Higher Engineering Education

More info on the themes is found on the website of the Teaching Academy.

Process going forward

23 September: Deadline the individual letter of intent, including preferred role (see section on Roles below)
Start of October: Matching conversations with team representatives
Half October – half November: 3 kick-off sessions (see below)
Half November till 9 December: writing phase of the proposal (project plan)
9 December: Deadline proposal
16 December: IDEE Board meeting
Before Christmas: teams receive feedback of the BOARD

In fall 2024, three sessions of 2 hours will be organized by the programme management to kick-start the themes and where your presence is needed. The goals of these sessions are to get to know each other and each other's motivations and ambitions, explore the themes' challenges and opportunities with different stakeholders, decide on a focus for the project together, and finally build the team. After these sessions, the team will write a proposal that the IDEE Board will provide feedback on.

Roles you can apply for

The Team Representative will be matched in a conversation with Annoesjka Cabo and Kristina Edström. Leadership skills and the ability to coordinate complex and pioneering projects are key for the team member taking on this role.

An IDEE Team Representative is someone who:

Can thrive in a pioneering project balancing innovation and research
Has a passion for and a background in educational innovation
Can build a team and mobilize stakeholders
Has a minimum availability of 0,2 FTE
Pre: can be a co-promotor or part of the PD supervision team

Aspiring core members should commit to the starting programme of three sessions from mid-October to mid-November to match the IDEE theme and team. An IDEE core team member is someone who:

Has an interest in innovating and/or researching education regarding the theme
Can deal with uncertainty and likes to work in a team with people in different roles and from different backgrounds
Has an availability of 0,1 FTE
Pre: can be a co-promotor of the PhD candidate or part of the Postdoc researcher supervision team

A community member is someone who:

Likes to experiment with novel pedagogies, tools and ideas in education
Wants to share their insights and experiences with the core team
Is part of the IDEE community without structural time investment

Show your interest

Please submit a Letter of Intent for one of the two themes*. It is a requirement to be an educator** in employment of TU Delft.. The Letter of Intent consists of:

Personal information (name, position, faculty, possibility to be a promotor)
Short motivation for the theme (max. 150 words)
Envisioned role, see previous paragraph for more detailed description of roles, and why this role fits you (max 100 words).

The Letter of Intent should be submitted by 23 September at the latest by emailing to teachingacademy@tudelft.nl.

For more information about this call, you can contact Lisanne Roseboom via teachingacademy@tudelft.nl

* The three existing themes are not open in this call. If you are interested in contributing to them, reach out to one of the team members. Meet them via the website.

** Educator; meaning everyone with a teaching role, from PhD to full Professor to fulltime Lecturer.