Global Challenges, Science and Entrepreneurship
Responsible educational institutes: IWWR, ISIS, IMM, Nijmegen School of Management
Automatically approved for: all bachelorstudents of the Faculty of Science
Amount of ec: 18 ec
Contact: Heleen de Coninck (email: h.deconinck@fnwi.ru.nl)
Do you want to look beyond your science discipline? And are you interested in contributing to solutions to societal challenges, such as health, climate change and development? From physics to chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer science, the various disciplines in the Faculty of Science have much to say about these challenges, including about how we can address them. There will hardly be any graduate of our Faculty who will not deal with one or more of these challenges in her or his career, whether it is in business, in (applied) research, in government or consultancy or in teaching.
But once you are in such a position, you will notice that you must not only be keenly aware of what science has to tell. Politics and economics will come in, for they provide instruments and boundary conditions. Business may help, but may also be the cause of inertia and limitations. In the end, society also needs entrepreneurial people in small and large companies, in government departments and agencies, in fact everywhere, to develop innovative and sustainable solutions and approaches that contribute to addressing societal challenges.
In the Global Challenges, Science and Entrepreneurship minor at Radboud University’s Faculty of Science, you will explore in more depth and in a multidisciplinary and practical way three global challenges, and in addition broaden your perspective towards politics, business and policy.
Please note: during the academic year 2016-2017, because of capacity issues, it is possible that there are scheduling conflicts that will make it difficult to follow this minor. Please contact your student advisor if you need advice on planning.
The minor Global Challenges, Science and Entrepreneurship consists of the following courses:
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