Work-based learning and wider university-employer interaction Luc Soete & Marcel Wubbolts March 9, 2016

Welcome to a joint presentation From the employer side: Marcel Wubbolts on the university-employer interaction Brightlands Chemelot Campus

From the university side: Luc Soete focus on work-based learning and employability

Brightlands-Chemelot Campus

Accelerating Science-based Solutions

Marcel Wubbolts

Chief Technology Officer, Royal DSM

Our purpose is to create brighter lives for

people today and generations to come

We connect our unique competences in Life

Sciences and Materials Sciences to create

solutions that nourish, protect and improve

performance

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Mission of DSM

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

Broad Set of Scientific Competences

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People

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CONFIDENTIAL

Brighter Living

Science Can Change The World… … sustainable solutions needed

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FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

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COB21: Impact of INDCs Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

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Position of Science in Society Opinions often Prevail over Facts

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www.sciencecanchangetheworld.org

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New Science Based Solutions and… …New Business Models are Needed

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Collaboration

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A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR BIOBASED INDUSTRIES

Bioprocess Pilot Facility

Brightlands Chemelot Campus

• Performance Materials

• Bio-Based Materials

• Biomedical Materials

Geleen

DSM Materials Sciences Center

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Open since August 2014

19,000 m2 offices & labs

420 FTE’s

Brightlands Center Court

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Central Facilities - Multi Tenant

Completion summer 2016

14,000 m2 central facilities, offices & labs

Presence of organizations

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Corporates

Startups

SMEs

Education Parties

Scientific Centers

Knowledge institutes at Brightlands

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Plant/vegetation

as direct source

for chemicals and

materials

AMI Biobased Materials

Chemelot InSciTe

Brightlands Materials Center

Enabling Technologies

MRLIN M4I

Biomedical

Materials

Biobased Building

Blocks

Advanced Polymer

Materials and

Processing

Enabling

Technologies

Advanced

analytical

infrastructure

Materials and

technologies for

regeneration of

body tissues

Molecular imaging

of (biological)

materials

Chemelot InSciTe: Creating Value

Concept

Marketable

product or

processes

Knowledge driven Society oriented

By translating RT&D into market-ready products and processes

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Accelerate

innovation

Bring knowhow

and knowledge

together

Increase the

chance of

success

Decrease

risk and costs

Chemelot InSciTe: Joint investments

Activities structured around “the 4 E’s”

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Education

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HOME NEXT

Next

Generation

Entrepreneurial

Scientists

Biomedical

Training

Biobased

Training

Pilot plant

training

Brightlands

Innovations

Life Cycle

Assessment

Generic

training

GMP training IP training

Regulatory

awareness

training

Medical

device

training

linkedin.com/company/DSM

twitter.com/DSM

facebook.com/DSMcompany

flickr.com/DSMcompany

youtube.com/DSMcompany

Brightlands Campuses

Education Research Innovation

Industry

Industry

Brightlands Chemelot Campus

Industrial Park,

Campus & Education Amongst Europe’s largest

CheMaterials communities Bio-based & Smart Materials Maastricht Science programme

Higher education in NL

Universities: Studium Generale

Professional higher education: Studium Particulare

Higher education

Research and education are inseparable

Work-based learning

Skills

Knowledge

Employability: a new higher education responsibility?

Employability and academic education

Academic Expertise

Skills

Experience Personal

Attributes

Questions/statements 1

• Research is essential for both professional and academic education: - Professional education needs work- and practice

oriented investment in research; - Academic education needs continuous feeding from

frontier research within and outside the own

discipline • Both are essential for enhancing the absorptive

capacity of knowledge of a country/region within the current global environment

Questions/statements 2

• Higher education should rethink its responsibility with respect to employability: - Some specific educational programmes might be

closely based on current and forecasted labour market demands,

- Others should prepare for more broadly qualified students (e.g. University Colleges) focusing on a much broader scope of knowledge (liberal arts, sciences, law) and preparing students for continuous learning and professional development

Questions/statements 3

• University-employer interaction is facilitated within local campuses whereby the regional economic and societal “smart specialisation” at industry level is matched by smart specialisation at the university level

• Campuses form the ideal “working place” environment for higher educational establishments

Questions/statements 4

• Timing in focusing on employability. - No internships in first year of a Bachelor’s program? - Calibration is a more precise process than just make

a call for employability. • Quality of internships (Inge Römgens). Responsability

of higher education establishments is not so much whether an internship is of sufficient quality, but rather whether we can identify ex ante what you can learn from it, its purpose, and writing a report about the competences acquired doing so.

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