Initiatives focusing on talent development, excellence and honors in higher education have been on the rise throughout Europe over the last fifteen years. But a European network uniting these initiatives was still lacking. This gap is now filled with the creation of the European Honors Council (EHC). …

Poster presentation International Honours Conference, Utrecht. July 14th 2016

Culture of Excellence: EXChange – transfer and cultural change through excellence education.Round table discussion at Honours Conference 2016: Honours Futures, Utrecht. 2-3 juni 2016.

Honors in Europe: getting to work.Utrecht Honours Conference 2016: Honours Futures, Utrecht, June 2-3. Set up: Presentation of brochure ‘Honors in Europe: getting to work’ by authors. Discussion on three topics, starting by an example. Goal: facilitating exchange of good practices and lessons learned …

Poster presentation at Honours Conference 2016: Honours Futures, Utrecht, June 2-3.

Can effective altruism be taught? Paper presentation at the Utrecht Honours Conference 2016: Honours futures, on June, 2nd.

Defining professional excellence: overlapping learning outcomes in Dutch honours education. Presentation at Utrecht Honours Conference, Utrecht. 2-3 June 2016. Activity: Focus group discussion: What characterizes an excellent professional?Research results, relevance, next steps.Activity: Roundtable/discussionin …

Honours futures. Keynote at Honours Conference 2016: Honours Futures, Utrecht, June 2-3. Talent development and networking: vision for a European future.

The Hanze University Groningen offers more than 60 different honours programmes for students who want to do more than the regular programme offers them. In these programmes, students are guided to become an excellent professional. Competencies defining an excellent professional were assessed in a previous …

Honours programs are selective programs that offer challenging educational opportunities for talented students who are willing and able to do more than regular programs offer them (Wolfensberger et.al.,2012). For optimal learning, these programs should focus on three dimensions of teaching approaches: …