The EWUU alliance offers a set of packages, existing of elective courses that you benefit from in the combined expertise of TU/e, WUR, UU, and UMCU. These packages are sets of elective courses surrounding a specific theme or topic, put together by experts in the fields of the package.
By following a package, you as student have ownership of your learning journey, selecting courses related to your discipline or broadening your horizon beyond the boundaries of your study programme and institution. You gain access to a broader range of perspectives, teaching styles, and academic specializations that enrich your learning experience and increase awareness of different perspectives in and between disciplines. This not only deepens your knowledge within a chosen topic, but also helps you to develop interdisciplinary skills that are increasingly valuable in today’s complex world.
Each package offers the opportunity to tailor it to your own programme, having multiple options to choose from within a package, or opting for a package with a joint (mandatory) element where you join in and share your knowledge, values and skills within a group setting or challenge.
Packages overview
Sustainability Transitions in Past and Present
Living Technology Course Package
Personal and Societal Resilience Package
We live in a rapidly changing world, shaped by climate challenges as well as technological and societal developments. Are you prepared for the uncertainties of the future? By learning about the science and practice of resilience, you can equip yourself with the skills to adapt and bounce back.
What is this package about?
This package helps you explore and apply the principles of resilience in both societal and personal contexts. You will learn how systems, communities, and individuals can adapt, recover, and even grow stronger through challenges—and how you can apply this knowledge yourself. This interdisciplinary package connects students from Eindhoven, Wageningen, Utrecht, and UMC Utrecht, bringing together perspectives from technology, nature, health, and society.
What can you learn?
Depending on the courses you choose, by the end of the programme you will be able to:
• Recognize disruptions, crises, and transitions, and explain why resilience matters.
• Understand what makes systems (and people) resilient.
• Strengthen your own personal resilience.
• Reflect on resilience in your environment.
• Connect resilience principles across different fields and disciplines.
How it works
• Compulsory course: The Resilience Lab (3 EC): A central, hands-on course in which you apply resilience thinking and explore your own personal resilience in an interdisciplinary group with students from other universities. You can register for this course if you have completed, or are enrolled in, at least one other elective associated with the package.
• Elective courses of your choice (9–17 EC): Choose courses from at least two EWUU universities. Have you already taken, or are you currently taking, courses listed in the suggested overview below? If you have completed them within the past six months, they may count toward the package.
Are there courses you believe are relevant to this package but are not listed in the course overview? Would you like to check whether they can be recognized as part of the package? We welcome your suggestions. Send an email to the package coordinator, Gijs Elkhuizen, and include information about the course, such as its description, its relevance to the theme of resilience, and why you consider it a suitable addition to your package.
How to register for this package?
There are two types of courses and registration procedures for this package, depending on whether the course is offered by your home institution or by another university.
- For courses offered by your home institution, register via Osiris. This also applies to the compulsory course.
- For courses not offered by your home institution, you can register via EduXchange. Select your home institution and search for the course name or course code listed below.
Download the course overview list