100,000 euros for new design course of Applied Physics

The National Governing Body for Education Research (NRO) will make available an amount of €100,000 for the new Applied Physics course ‘Design Engineering for Physicists’. The NRO has approved an application by Prof. Chris Kleijn, Dr. Rolf Hut (CitG/TNW), Dr. Koen van Dongen (TNW) and Prof. Marc de Vries (TNW) for a Comenius Senior Fellowship.

The Comenius programme gives an impulse to innovation and improvement in higher education. The Comenius Senior Fellow grants can be used to finance innovative projects with a duration of two years. The projects are carried out in the context of an educational programme or a track within a major educational programme. The improvement in education should directly benefit students in Dutch higher education.

A total of 76 universities and colleges applied for a grant. These applications were divided into three themes and a free category. Within the available budget of € 2,200,000, a total of 22 projects could be financed. The committee judged the application of Applied Sciences to be 'very good', praised the innovative character of the new course and said that the application of Maker Education in higher education is an original approach.

Rolf Hut recently talked about the Comenius grant on Dutch radio statio 'Radio 1'. You can listen to the item here.