Learning4Society

Learning4Society is an education project supported by an Education Fellowship led by Dr. Axelle Viré at TU Delft. The overall goal of the project is to embed the creation of learning communities in university education for a wider societal impact. One of the drivers for Learning4Society is the need to attract a more diverse student population in the field of wind energy, and STEM studies as a whole. The project will achieve this by creating long-term learning communities between our university students and society at large. The specific project goals are outlined as follows.

1. Connect university students with teachers, pupils, and society at large (incl. professional engineers) to build long-lasting and close-knit learning communities.

2. Train students to a wide range of non-technical skills, including communication to a diverse audience, working in diverse teams, detailed documentation of softwares and designs, open dissemination, and peer-to-peer evaluation.

3. Develop an outreach programme whose content is primarily the outcome of students’ assignments, and which grows every year with new students’ cohorts.

Learning4Society started in January 2023 and will be embedded in the Offshore Wind Energy Minor at TU Delft running from September 2023 to January 2024.