Personal and Societal Resilience Lab

We live in a complex world, characterized by disruptive changes. This course is part of an EWUU package that aims to prepare student for an unknown but challenging future by studying and applying principles of resilience to societal challenges and personal challenges.

The EWUU package is interdisciplinary and aims to bring students from various fields and institutes together. It offers elective courses on resilience in various settings which are taught at the institutes of the Eindhoven-Wageningen-Utrecht-UMCU (EWUU) alliance. In this course students apply principles of resilience in various subject fields to improve their own personal resilience.

During the course students are stimulated to cross the boundaries of their own discipline and employ an inter- and/ or trans-disciplinary approach. Projects could combine technical, political, economic, social and sustainability disciplines.

In the resilience lab, students discuss with each other about several issues, reflect together, work on a group project, which they will also present to each other, and an individual learning demonstration. In the group project, students work on a self-chosen topic, which is set-up in the first meeting. During each meeting students will also experience "out-of-the-box" activities, which you would normally not experience in a course. All to experience that resilience can be expressed in many forms.

The learning community as a whole (including the students) will be responsible for acquiring and sharing relevant expertise to tackle this topic.

• Apply principles of resilience on personal resilience

• Reflect on resilience at a personal level for yourself and/or in your environment

• Connect principles of resilience in other subject areas with their own subject area

• Assignment report (50%)
• Assignment reflection report (50%) In the personal learning demonstration students reflect on what they have learned in the courses and how this can help in their personal resilience, and in resilience in their own field of study. For example, by writing a short individual (non-scientific) paper, recording a podcast, creating a documentary or another artistic expression

60 ECTS should have been completed from an EWUU BSc programme.

• Will be announced at the start of the course and depends on the courses chosen within the EWUU package.