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Prof. Wim Van Petegem, Chrisje Haenen en Rudi Lenaerts<br />
“Actually coaching this team was easy,”<br />
explains Prof. Van Petegem. “We started<br />
each day with a short stand-up meeting<br />
with the team. Our main role as coaches<br />
was to bring students in contact with<br />
stakeholders in the field of education,<br />
research and industry so that they could<br />
get feedback for their ideas”.<br />
“The multidisciplinarity in<br />
the team proved to be a<br />
main asset in coming up<br />
with the challenge”.<br />
Jorrit Willaert and Anirudh Pabba, two of<br />
the team members, add: “The multidisciplinarity<br />
in the team proved to be a<br />
main asset in coming up with an approach<br />
to the challenge. The mix of expertise in<br />
our team with law (from Isidora Gonzalez<br />
Rios, a third team member), science<br />
(Anirudh) and engineering (Jorrit) turned<br />
out to be very successful, and resulted in<br />
a holistic experience.”<br />
Roles<br />
The roles in the team were clearly defined<br />
in the first few days. Anirudh took the<br />
responsibility as a project planner,<br />
whereas Isidora worked on the legal and<br />
juridical aspects and Jorrit was responsible<br />
for the practical implementation of the<br />
choices made. All their hard work<br />
eventually resulted in a blueprint for a<br />
customisable add-on for browsers to<br />
protect the user’s digital rights. Needless<br />
to say that this solution was highly<br />
appreciated by all participants of the final<br />
presentation at the end of the two weeks<br />
challenge.<br />
“I was pleasantly surprised by the<br />
eagerness and the willingness of the team<br />
to pick-up the challenge and to really<br />
deliver a solution” adds Rudi Lenaerts,<br />
“Moreover, working with an international<br />
team (Anirudh is from India, Isidora from<br />
Chile and Jorrit from Belgium) added an<br />
extra very positive dimension to it”.<br />
In total, UNA.TEN attracted more than<br />
100 students who worked together in 19<br />
teams, in this way paving the road for<br />
challenge-based learning, not only in<br />
times of virtual mobility, but maybe for the<br />
future of higher education in Europe and<br />
beyond.<br />
Hilde Lauwereys<br />
www.una-europa.eu<br />
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