Biography

Ellen van Andel is lecturer and trainer in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, with a focus on Agriculture/Food and Education in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). She teaches, trains and coaches different types of learners in technology-based entrepreneurship with a participatory approach. Through her work she obtained a wealth of experience in LMICs such as Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, South-Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria and India. In these interactive sessions, various methods from design thinking, system thinking and visual thinking are utilized for developing, testing and implementing sustainable business cases. Workshop methods are both offline and online. To enable this, Ellen also co-creates (online) course materials for technology-based entrepreneurship education. Ellen holds a BSc in Sociology and an MSc in Health Economics.

Ellen is involved in the following education programs:

• Minor International Entrepreneurship & Development (coordination + teaching + coaching)
• Course Waterworks in Practice (for the minor ‘Delta Denker, Water voor Later)
• Train the trainer programs (Train the Trainer (tudelft.nl))
• MOOC Entrepreneurship for Global Challenges in Emerging Markets

Projects

• Project in South Asia (Nepal, India and Bhutan); funded by the Erasmus+ programme (EU) PBL South Asia (aaltoglobalimpact.org)
• Project in Ghana; funded by the Archipelago fund (EU) Horticulture in Ghana for a brighter future (tudelft.nl)
• Project in Benin; funded by the RVO (Dutch Enterprise Agency) HORTIBENIN - YouTube

• Project in Rwanda; funded by Nuffic  SEAD – Entrepreneurship Training (tudelft.nl)
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