Co-creating change – rethinking students’ role in STEM curricula
Upcoming
15 Oct, 2026 (1:30PM – 3PM CET/CEST)
Campus of Brest | Room F102
No sign up necessary
Many students experience difficulties during the transition to higher education and especially in the first year of STEM, drop out numbers are high compared to other disciplines. These experienced difficulties can be elevated for students who belong to minorities, such as first-generation students who are the first in their family to participate in higher education. Women can also experience problems of belonging in male dominated STEM programs. It has also been found that the academic self-concept of women first-year students in STEM is significantly lower than that of male students and is not associated with important achievement predictors such as prior academic achievement. When women STEM students drop out or change majors, they do so with higher grades than their male counterparts, and subjective feelings of lack of fit have been hypothesized to play a role in such decisions. Apprenticeship students that combine Work Based Learning with an academic engineering education can also experience challenges to fit in.
Join this workshop to explore how students can get involved in shaping and changing academic curricula in STEM institutions around the world.
Bespoken objectives;
- Discover concrete implementation designs and student evaluations of new initiatives.
- Argue the advantages, downsides and solutions.
- Hear about the experience of the TU Delft system from a student.
- Roleplay a model of student-involved board meeting.
For more information about the workshop, visit this Erasmus+ link