Program Schedule

Bus from Voksen?sen Hotel to University of Oslo Campus (for participants staying at the Venue Hotel) 

Register for the bus

Registration

Coffee and mingling 

Room: 

KBH, Lobby

09:00 - 09:20

Opening: Interdisciplinary education and student agency, by Anders Malthe-S?renssen, director, INTED ¨C Center for interdisciplinary education

Students need to develop interdisciplinary competence to address our grand societal challenges, to succeed in research and innovation and to support in their professional careers. In this talk, we provide an overview of how the INTED center supports the development of interdisciplinary competence in students, teachers, administration and stakeholders, with particular focus on supporting student agency and the interdisciplinary skill development ladder.

Room: 

KBH, Auditorium 3

Perspectives from Idar Kreutzer, director at NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) 

Idar Kreutzer is a director at NHO, working with processes related to international affairs, digitalization and sustainable development. Director Kreutzer will explain the needs for developing minds and mindsets to meet today¡¯s challenges, and how important interdisciplinary skills is for the future workforce.

Room: 

KBH, Auditorium 3

Interdisciplinary Education: The Dynamic of Societal Challenges, Knowledge Traditions and Student Interests By Berit Karseth, Vice-Rector for Education at University of Oslo 

Berit Karseth research and academic interests focus on reform and change processes at all levels of the educational system. Karseth has significant leadership experience from work with study and program revisions and is the vice-rector for education at the University of Oslo. 

Room: 

KBH, Auditorium 3

Room: 

KBH, Lobby 

Honours student voices by Mina Haaheim, Norway and Nik Waldram, Netherland

Honours students share their experiences of agency and belonging. This program creates a space for students to connect, reflect, and shape their honours journey together.

Room: 

KBH, Auditorium 3

10:40 -

11:15

The need for connectedness through talent development, honours and transdisciplinarity by Marca Wolfensberger, Professor Transdisciplinary Cooperation in Education 

Marca has been involved in various trans- and interdisciplinary honours education modules at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University. She co-wrote more then 150 articles about higher education. Her passion for education contributed to her becoming one of the pioneer founders of honours education in Europe

Room: 

KBH, Auditorium 3

Poster session 

• Showcase of Honors Projects: Honors students present their interdisciplinary projects, highlighting innovative solutions and collaborative efforts across various fields
• Insights from Scholars and Teachers: Engaging discussions on effective teaching strategies and organization of honors and interdisciplinary education, emphasizing best practices and student outcomes.

Link to read more about the posters

Room: 

KBH, Lobby

12:00 - 13:00 

Room: 

KBH, Lobby

Communicating across difference by professor Michael O'Rourke, Michigan State University

Higher education should enhance one¡¯s ability to communicate across difference, whether that be disciplinary difference, political difference, or difference in experience. This talk emphasizes the power of structured dialogue to facilitate complex communication of this sort, using the Toolbox dialogue method as its central example.

Room:

KBH, Auditorium 3

13:45 -

14:30

From knowledge to action and from science to society: Bridging several gaps at once in interdisciplinary honours education? by professor Machiel Keestra, University of Amsterdam

With complex problems requiring societal responses, it is important to bridge the traditional gaps that characterize academic education: the gaps between science and society and between knowledge and action. Doing so has implications for the process of education, the stakeholders involved in it as well as the criteria applied in assessing it. This lecture will offer reflections and practical suggestions as to how students might produce ¡®actionable¡¯ knowledge that is relevant for society.

14:30 - 14:45

Room:

KBH, Lobby

14:45 - 15:30 

Panel Discussion: Student Perspectives in the Honours Program

A panel discussion where honours students share their experiences and insights. This is a great opportunity to hear about their challenges and successes and to ask questions about their journeys.

Room:

KBH, Auditorium 3

Closing Remarks by Anders Malthe-S?renssen, director, INTED ¨C Center for interdisciplinary education

Room:

KBH, Auditorium 3

Transportation to venue hotel, check in and free time 

• Bus to venue hotel. Bus leaves campus 16:15.
• Check in at the venue hotel for Norwegians and arrivals October 31.  
• Free time

Register for the bus

Pick-Up Location: 

Road between GSH and KBH 

Dinner at the venue hotel for participants staying at the venue hotel

Room: 

Dining area, Voksen?sen hotel 

Student track 

Academic track 

Toolbox workshop: Interdisciplinary communication by Michael O¡¯Rourke, Michigan State University

Time: 09:30 - 11:45 

(including break) 

Room: TBA

This workshop will feature dialogue structured to facilitate communication across disciplines. Designed according to the Toolbox dialogue method, it will give participants an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary education modality used extensively by the US National Science Foundation and NASA, among many others. Participants should enhance their ability to communicate across differences in expertise and experience.

Workshop: Waddenlab, fieldtrip at sea and mud for honours students from all educations by Ron Weerheijm, Netherlands 

Waddenlab is an honours activity for students from all programmes and studies. Students prepare a session about the Wadden sea based on their own chosen theme that will be carried out during the sailing week in July, on the Wadden Sea, the water, an island or .... The central theme is: How do we keep the Wadden Sea healthy? Students learn about using their own education to approach a fairly unknown subject and need to use higher-level skills to work on the subject and work with fellow students.

Presentations: Teaching students 

Link to read descriptions of the presentations

Academic track continue 

Workshop: Academic Hospitality and the Mechanics of Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Education by Mary Preston Sutphen, University of Oslo, Norway 

Over the last fifty years, there have been many calls for interdisciplinary education, research, and work. However, over the same time a growing literature has emerged on the many challenges academics and students face in interdisciplinary education. In this session we will share some approaches and pedagogies to meet these challenges that have come from the project Academic Hospitality in Interdisciplinary Education (AHIE). We will focus on the potential of academic hospitality to improve collaboration in study programmes intended to prepare students for interdisciplinary research and work.

Presentations: Organizing Education

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch 

Plenary: Building student networks - anchors from research and reflections by Hannah M¨¹lder, PhD

Hannah M¨¹lder (former interdisciplinary and honours student, current PhD candidate) will share insights from both own experiences in co-creating student networks and her research on student-staff partnership.

Student track 

Academic track 

INTED-Workshop: Establishing a European Student Network

TRAIL workshop: a path towards transdisciplinary education

Julie Kurris, Marca Wolfensberger, Anne van Tuijkl, Nik Waldram, Jan-Peter Sandler, Ella Ids?e, Maaike Mulder Nijkamp and Anne-Mieke Vandamme 

Building on the results of the European-wide STEAM+ program, the research group on Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Education from Avans UAS developed the TRAILtool (www.trailtool.org, also presented elsewhere during this conference): an online-tool that guides the participants and developers of transdisciplinary education to the various stages of collaborating, designing, implementing and evaluating a transdisciplinary project. The uniqueness of the tool is grounded in an innovative approach to shaping educational developments through a transdisciplinary lens involving all stakeholders. Next to the website, TRAILtool is enhanced by a physical tool ¨C developed in collaboration with the University of Twente. In this workshop you will design transdisciplinary education with the multiple perspectives of teachers, students, researchers, and societal partner around a complex societal problem.

Presentations: Supporting Inter- and Transdisciplinary Education

Link to read descriptions of the presentations

Discussion: How can institutions, programs and faculty support a European student network? 

Facilitated by: INTED/EHC

Plenary: European student network proposals and questionnaire

16:15 - 19:00

Free time 

Organized walk to the Rose Castle 

The walk to The Rose Castle takes 30 minutes each way. To participate, please sign up in advance so we can prepay the entrance fee: sign up! 

Dinner 

21:30 - 23:00 

Halloween gathering