As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Last week EU Parliamentarian Samira Rafaela met the Pulsed Academy in the “Makersplayce” of Fontys School of Engineering, during her visit in Eindhoven. We discussed the added value of internationalisation in our education programs. At Pulsed, we aim to prepare our students for the multicultural society and we showed Samira how we do this. We also talked about the challenges we face, due to the temporary restrictions around recruiting international students.
Milou Kauffman, Internationalisation Expert at Pulsed, highlighted the importance in remaining aware of the future: “We want to be careful that our education does not contribute to the prevailing anti-globalisation sentiment. We need to keep paying attention to maintaining genuine international and intercultural learning communities. So, that we keep learning from each other and prevent to see internationals as ‘the others’.
Pulsed students often work together in multidisciplinary international teams on local and global challenges to practice their international competences. An example is the collaboration project of our Associate Degree Engineering and program Empower TEC. The students are currently working on technology innovation solutions to improve the life of people, who are suffering from MS. During the project, they work together with students from universities all over Europe: Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool in Antwerpen, Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya in Porto andHellenic Mediterranean University in Crete and two MS expertise centres from Belgium and Greece.
But also throughout the year, we make conscious use of the internationally diverse perspectives from international students in the group. We dive into different cultures and discuss topics like the various point of views, how people are shaped by the culture they descend from and we learn from other cultures while enjoying an international breakfast.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
