Call for Proposals

The DRIVE program (2025-2030) is the successor of the BOOST! program (2019-2024) and aims to enhance the quality of education with digitalization. This call for proposals is aimed at realizing TU/e’s Vision on Education towards (1) learning in a flexible hybrid system to facilitate diverse learning paths, (2) an authentic, integrative, and activating educational concept: Challenge Based Learning, and (3) self-directed learning that acknowledges personal development and professional identity.

Based on the Vision on Education, results of the BOOST! program and (technological) developments in higher education and the world, the DRIVE program focuses on five topics:

1. AI in education: Education for, with and despite AI
2. E-assessment: Innovative assessment options using technology. Including assessment of competence and skill development, and a focus on challenge-based learning, collaborative learning and (peer)feedback.
3. Learning Analytics: Use of data with the purpose of understanding and optimizing learning and teaching
4. Modularization: Accessibility of (modularized) educational resources for students and teachers beyond the course level
5. Virtualization: Learning and teaching of knowledge and/or skills that are not possible with current (on-campus) resources. Including XR, VR, innovative lab education and gamification. 

DRIVE Guidelines for proposals

The DRIVE review document describes the review procedure and criteria.

Please be aware that there are some important differences between the foregoing BOOST! program and the current DRIVE program:

• Pilots should fit with at least one of the core topics outlined above (see review document)
• Pilots should have potential for scaling up beyond the context of the pilot (see review document)

In this first call for proposals for the DRIVE program, a total amount of € 1.000.000,- is available. Details regarding funding guidelines are available in the DRIVE review document. The requested budget will be assessed on fit with the proposed education innovation and anticipated impact on education, including potential for scaling up.

4TU.CEE is a collaboration of the four technical universities in the Netherlands. The mission of 4TU.CEE is to jointly inspire, stimulate, support and disseminate effective and high quality Engineering Education through research and application of evidence-based innovations within the Engineering Education domain. 4TU.CEE is the place for teachers and scientists with questions and ambitions in the domain of Engineering Education.

“Innovating engineering education for the future”

For several years, the 4TU.CEE Innovation Fund at TU/e has been encouraging teachers to innovate their education with small-scale experiments and research. Many projects have been successful and led to promising innovative practices. Transforming educational paradigms from teaching to learning with emphasis on student-centred pedagogies is important to prepare new generations of engineers and scientists to meet emerging societal challenges. For the 4TU.CEE Innovation Fund of 2025, the 4TU Centre for Engineering Education at TU/e welcomes research projects whose results provide evidence for promising teaching and/or learning processes that are in line with the TU/e education vision 2030. These pertain in particular (but are not restricted to) projects focusing on:

• Challenge Based Learning

Processes and outcomes/effects, including assessment; inter- and transdisciplinary education, and the relation of the university with society.

• Entrepreneurial Learning

Entrepreneurial context of engineering; entrepreneurial mind-set/attitude and entrepreneurial or innovation skills, such as creativity, opportunity seeking, creating value, risk taking, leadership and self-management skills; entrepreneurial skills embedding, teaching and assessment

• ICT enhanced education and digitally literate engineer 

This topic consists of two subtopics: (a) ICT enhanced engineering education: Flexible and personal learning paths of learners, blended or online solutions for teaching and learning, especially for engineering specific activities such as lab education, excursions, collaboration in augmented or virtual reality. (b) Digitally literate engineers: Digital literacy and information skills, using digital tools to design or test solutions, and digital collaboration; learning analytics and AI

• Sustainability and ethics in engineering education

Ethical and sustainable behaviour competences and mind-set, boundary crossing; awareness raising for ethics and sustainability; motivating engineers for dealing with moral or ethical issues and questions; addressing engineering and technology specific topics with moral questions such as social media, AI, robotics, etc

• Teaching excellence

investigating teacher learning during educational innovations that are either bottom-up or top-down; new roles of teachers as coaches and designers of blended learning

4TU.CEE Guidelines for proposals

The 4TU.CEE review document describes the review procedure and criteria.

The proposed innovations may pertain to any of the education phases: e.g. the bachelor phase, the master phase, the post-master phase (PhD).

Projects that stimulate collaboration between departments are especially welcome. A total amount of approximately €300.000 will be available for projects that fit the themes of this call. We invite project proposals that contribute to the above and finalize before December 31^st 2026.

The EuroTeQ Engineering University Alliances aims at shaping the future of European Engineering. The focus is to instill in students and lifelong learners the ability to think and act responsibly and be ready to lead a competitive and sustainable Europe into the future. The EuroTeQ offerings are directed towards future technological skills as well as intercultural and multilingual competences and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Keeping this in mind we developed this call for proposals that supports EuroTeQ’s above mentioned ambitions as well as TU/e’s Vision on Education by focusing on:

1. Learning in a flexible hybrid system to facilitate diverse learning paths (Including synchronous and asynchronous learning).
2. Self-directed learning that acknowledges personal development and professional identity, fostering responsible engineers and
3. Developing the international classroom.

 We aim to stimulate this by focusing on the following 3 topics in this call for proposals:

• EuroTeQ Education for BSc, MSc, PhD: Redesigning an existing course to be suitable for online-, hybrid- or short-term on campus mobility for EuroTeQ learners, as TU/e or jointly with EuroTeQ partners
• Professionalization of staff: Developing a program to exchange educational expertise amongst staff (for example a winter school on online education), benefitting EuroTeQ
• Lifelong learning and competencies: Developing a course (3-30EC) on digital transition, to upskill the working professional in both knowledge and competencies required by employers, matching the quality criteria of micro credential certification and offering this course to the EuroTeQ community. Additional information on this topic is available here.

EuroTeQ Guidelines for proposals

The EuroTeQ review document describes the review procedure and criteria.

• Pilots should fit with at least one of the core topics outlined above (see review document)
• Pilots should have potential for scaling up beyond the context of the pilot (see review document)

In this first call for proposals for the EuroTeQ program, a total amount of €400 000 is available. Details regarding funding guidelines are available in the EuroTeQ review document. The requested budget will be assessed on fit with the proposed education innovation and anticipated impact on education, including potential for scaling up.

We invite project proposals that contribute to the above and that will be finalised by September 2027.