Lund University has a program like this! It is called The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies -- where it is possible to apply for ca 1 year projects where they cover 20% of folks time, and they are expected to be there at the designated building one day a week to encourage interactions. Other programs also exist. I hope to apply for one soon, I agree this is how we need to move science forward in a properly transdisciplinary way.
Hi Matthias, I am sold. Just let me know how I can help and I can put you in contact with many researchers here at Michigan State that will love to work on this idea and possibly have small funding to set it up. As of myself, I am fully computational so I do not have a wet lab to directly set experiments up over here. PS. I interview with you years, I think it was for a postdoc position, funny how things go in life :)
I love this idea! I tried doing tiny experiments in Maastricht, such as getting STEM and design students in the same room to solve case studies. But it is soooo difficult to find support and funding. I ended up working only partly at Uni and partly as freelancer; but now my pay is lower and unstable :/ Although the freelance work is very rewarding, the unstability can be draining. I wish Unis would accept more innovative thinking (I thought that was their point)!
Sounds like a great course. Yes, exactly, universities should be places of trying things out, but usually it's some bureaucratic hurdle (usually it's not impossible to overcome, but it's just enough of a nuisance as to be discouraging), or there is no support. Mayne it can be changed....
These gaps in education are visible everywhere! My colleagues and I had an NGO directed at teaching youth about cutting edge technologies and industry 4.0
Lund University has a program like this! It is called The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies -- where it is possible to apply for ca 1 year projects where they cover 20% of folks time, and they are expected to be there at the designated building one day a week to encourage interactions. Other programs also exist. I hope to apply for one soon, I agree this is how we need to move science forward in a properly transdisciplinary way.
This sounds fantastic!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Matthias, I am sold. Just let me know how I can help and I can put you in contact with many researchers here at Michigan State that will love to work on this idea and possibly have small funding to set it up. As of myself, I am fully computational so I do not have a wet lab to directly set experiments up over here. PS. I interview with you years, I think it was for a postdoc position, funny how things go in life :)
Haha, great! If I ever end up in East Lansing I will know what to do! :)
I would say East Lansing offers 1 to the -100000 things that you have in Berlin, but for sure you're very welcome here :)
I love this idea! I tried doing tiny experiments in Maastricht, such as getting STEM and design students in the same room to solve case studies. But it is soooo difficult to find support and funding. I ended up working only partly at Uni and partly as freelancer; but now my pay is lower and unstable :/ Although the freelance work is very rewarding, the unstability can be draining. I wish Unis would accept more innovative thinking (I thought that was their point)!
Sounds like a great course. Yes, exactly, universities should be places of trying things out, but usually it's some bureaucratic hurdle (usually it's not impossible to overcome, but it's just enough of a nuisance as to be discouraging), or there is no support. Mayne it can be changed....
These gaps in education are visible everywhere! My colleagues and I had an NGO directed at teaching youth about cutting edge technologies and industry 4.0
that sounds great!
An der unibz gibt es Aktivitäten in dieser Richtung: https://www.unibzmagazine.it/en/magazine/people/aart-van-bezooijen
Nice!