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08.00 - 09.10     Welcome desk open with coffee

09.00 – 09.10    Welcome by Koen Vriesacker

09.10 – 10.15    Pecha Kucha Session – Learning from shared experiences

Format: 20 slides, each slide 20 seconds.  Overall topic: challenge-based education cases, projects, experiences

Speakers:

• Maarten van der Kamp (EIT Food) Challenge-based education to enhance Food system skills and enhance consumer awareness
• Kate Martin (EIT Climate) (Programme Lead) Pioneers into Practice
• Stefano Arciprete (EIT RawMaterials) RACE within challenge-based education
• Ursula Mühle (EIT Health) EIT Health Campus – an incubator for innovative health education
• Martin Vendel (EIT Urban Mobility)  “We will Fail”, on the need for an experimental approach
• Harry Bikas (EIT Manufacturing) “Teaching Factories and Teaching Factories' Network approach and methods”
• Anna-Karin Hogfeldt and Peter Hagström (EIT InnoEnergy) “The synergy of innovation & challenge-based education”
• Frédéric Renouard (EIT Digital) “Challenge-based education in an Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor embedded in 17 universities”  

10.15 - 10.30   Coffee break

10.30 – 11.15   Best practices in challenge-based education – panel discussion and real-life exercise

This session will allow each institution to hear, share and understand best practices and prevent major challenges that others have had to overcome.

Chairing and moderating:

• Mar Martinez Diaz (EIT InnoEnergy)
• Xavier Crusat (EIT InnoEnergy)

Panel members:

• Maarten van der Kamp (EIT Food) 
• Wesley Crock (EIT RawMaterials) 
• Martin Vendel (EIT Urban Mobility) 
• Peter Hagström (EIT InnoEnergy)  
• Daniel Mogefors (EIT Health)
• Javier Segovia (EIT Digital)
• Cristian Matti (EIT Climate) 
• Sylvia Leatham (EIT Manufacturing) 
  
  

11.15 - 11.45   Coffee break and networking

11.45 – 12.30   "Challenge-based education, getting the teachers engaged" & "Challenge-based education: key challenges & steps for student" fishbowl sessions.

This format allows the audience to share their experiences, voice challenges and share answers. All the participants are in the room, three chairs at the centre for those participants with ideas, comments and visions.

Moderator:

• Anouk Gelan

12.30 - 13.30   Lunch and networking

13.30 – 15.00   Keynote sessions:

Session 1. EIT Food: Challenge-based learning and the Circular Food Generator Track.

Focused on the implementation of the Circular Food Generator Track which was developed by using challenge-based learning.

Speakers:

• Veerle Carlier, R&D and Innovation manager at Colruyt NV 
• Myriam Löffler from Hohenheim University

Session 2. C-extended project: Lorenzo Angeli 

Lorenzo Angeli is involved in the C-Extended project. The project emphasises the crucial role of Higher Education Institutions in boosting innovation, with an approach deeply rooted in the principle of partnership. 

Session 3. EIT InnoEnergy: Driving meaningful innovation with enthusiasm: Implementing twelve years of challenge-based education.

Focused on the creation and operation of the EIT InnoEnergy educational model, from so far as 2007 with the SUCCESS pilot project. The session will present how challenge-based education has successfully contributed to the performance of EIT InnoEnergy Master’s programs.

Speaker:

• Josep Bordonau, Educational Entrepreneur, Teacher in UPC. Designer of E&BC powered by InnoEnergy

Session 4. EIT Digital: Change management in European Higher Education through teachers’ communities of practice and blended learning.

Networks of European universities are a cornerstone of the EIT KICs and emerge further as a central paradigm for EU Higher Education policies. In this keynote, EIT Digital will share on the benefits of 2 key organizational instruments – teacher communities of practice (‘TCoP’) and blended learning – to foster the transformation of education.

Speakers:

• Frederic Renouard, Université de Rennes 1
• Jean-Michel Dalle, Sorbonne Université

15.00 - 15.30   Coffee break and networking

15.30 - 16.00   “Challenge-based education and its impact on policy” fishbowl session 

All participants actively sharing ideas and comments.

16.00 - 18.00    Outreach activities & sessions.

Outreach from partners, EdTech, KIC’s: showcasing projects (e.g. table with flyers, posters, demonstrations) for non EIT-participants.

*Programme details may vary