In this festive episode, Director Bartel Van de Walle speaks with our Master’s Student Ambassador Leopoldo Perez Obregon. Bartel shares his personal story, his understandings about science and academia, the challenges and advantages of online education and his vision for the future of the Institute. ...
It’s actually pretty exciting to see what is happening on the comprehensive innovation frontlines. As we said in a previous podcast, our Comprehensive Innovation teams are actually the trailblazers to explore and build on that concept of comprehensive innovation. I was meeting with the team leads last week and they were telling me what they were doing in the meantime. And it was actually quite fascinating to see how they approached their challenge on comprehensive innovation. One of the teams wa...
This month is interesting for a number of reasons, so maybe I can start with some of the meetings I will have this month. Our UNU Rector is on a European tour. He’s in in Paris already as we speak, but then he will visit UNU-CRIS, our sister institute in Bruges. He will then visit The Hague. He’s unfortunately not able to come to Maastricht. And then he carries on to UNU-EHS in Bonn. So he’s visiting Europe for a number of reasons. ...