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PhD defence: Learning to innovate

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October 19, 2021

We are happy to announce that on Monday 8 November 2021, at 11 am, at the Aula of Wageningen University & Research, Robert Ovbiagbonhia will defend his PhD thesis, entitled ‘Learning to innovate: how to foster innovation competence in students of Built Environment at universities of applied science’. Robert was supervised by Perry den Brok (promotor) and Bas Köllöffel (Twente University, copromotor).

During the past years, Robert was an external PhD student at ELS, conducting his research while also acting as teacher at the Hanze Hogeschool Groningen. Robert investigated to what degree students’ innovation competence was visible in current education of Built Environments programs, and designed and evaluated an intervention to stimulate students’ innovation competence. Before the defence, Robert will give a layman’s speech. The defence ceremony will be broadcasted via WUR-tv as well (the link will be provided on our website in a later stage).

Registration

Those interested in being present live are asked to contact Robert directly or fill in the registration form. All others are welcome to follow the defense online via this link.