Honours Labs

In addition to the one and two-year honours programmes, the Honours Academy also offers Honours Labs. In these short, experimental projects, you spend a number of weeks working on a topical issue. Researching what the future of food looks like, for example, experiencing from within the arts how you view a concept as 'truth' or unravelling the logic of media in election times.

Honours Labs are open to students from all study programmes, both for honours students and those who are not taking an honours programme. If you are motivated to join in, you're very welcome!

Honours Labs 2025

Every year, the Radboud Honours Academy offers various Honours Labs in a wide variety of interdisciplinary themes.

ADHD escape room

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will not only learn about ADHD, but you will directly put your knowledge and your own creativity to use to let others experience what it is like to have ADHD.

Art for transformative change

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will inspire, together with fellow students and artists, the municipality of Nijmegen and its inhabitants about the city of the future, Nijmegen in 2050.

How do you translate science to politics?

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will visit alumni of our university who have gained a political role and turn your own scientific insights into policy recommendations for politics.

Learn and teach creatively about climate change

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will develop an education program for teenagers about climate change. You will test and implement this program at a secondary school in Nijmegen.

Shape the future with student-driven visions for AI in higher education

Course

In this Honours Lab, you will explore both the opportunities and risks of AI in higher education, for example by interviewing Microsoft and iHub employees and conducting user research.

Information for lecturers

Does the idea of teaching students from a variety of faculties in an interdisciplinary way appeal to you? Would you like to experiment with innovative teaching methods for once? And would you like to work with a group of motivated students who also want to take a look outside the boundaries of their own study programmes. If so, organise an Honours Lab!

The Radboud Honours Academy is looking for lecturers who would like to initiate, organise and supervise an Honours Lab in the coming academic year. An Honours Lab is a short, experimental project in which students work on an interdisciplinary topic for a number of weeks or months. Honours Labs have no fixed structure. Your education idea forms the starting point. You work that idea out into an inspiring Honours Lab together with Radboud Honours Academy programme directors. The Radboud Honours Academy also offers practical support in the implementations of an Honours Lab (such as facilities, hall hire and if necessary, the practical organisation of an excursion).

In the coming academic year, we will be organising 5 or 6 Honours Labs. They will all take place in the second semester, between February and June 2025. Have you got a good idea that you'd like to develop further? If so, get in touch with Esther Fluijt, esther.fluijt [at] ru.nl.

Contact

Do you want to know more about the Honours Labs or do you have any questions? Please get in touch with the programme director:

Esther Fluijt
esther.fluijt [at] ru.nl (esther[dot]fluijt[at]ru[dot]nl)