For the final episode of the year, we focus on the heart of our university community: students. We explore how studying in 2030 will differ from studying nowadays. According to Rector Magnificus Tom Veldkamp, future students will be much more in charge of what they learn and how they learn. Students design their own curriculum. Veldkamp explains what practical challenges come with that vision. 

Current Master Student Thomas Goudsblom reflects on these personalized tracks. What effect can this have on students? He suggests a different lay-out of the academic year and is strongly committed to enhancing student wellbeing.

If academic education will drastically change, also the design of the space where we learn will be different. What alternatives are there for iconic university lecture halls?

Cancer is the biggest cause of death in the Netherlands. But as technological innovations evolve rapidly, they will find their place in medicine. 

Professor of Oncology Theo Ruers talks about the impact of Artificial Intelligence in cancer care and how this will impact medical doctors. Next to The Cancer Coach, we introduce another profession that could emerge in the future: The Cancer MatchMaker. Where you match your technical background with clinical needs. For example, developing a navigation tool for surgeons to help them with removing a tumor during an operation. 

It is important to detect cancer as soon as possible. Lung specialist in training at Medisch Spectrum Twente, Sharina Kort did her PhD research on validating the electronic nose technology. How is it possible to detect lung cancer by smelling the air that someone exhales?

Every person deals with finance but only a minority can afford a personal financial advisor. And let’s be honest, how many people really like to dig into financial products? According to professor of Business Information Systems from the University of Twente, Jos van Hillegersberg there is a mismatch between how people handle their finances and the financial products and services available. 

In the last decades, we’ve seen a lot of standardization across industries. A Financial Customizer can help people bring personalisation back into finance. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, a person with this future job can configurate a perfect fit for your specific financial situation. 

We explore how a large global corporation like ING is already using data modeling today, while we visit Global Head Enabling Analytics, Anand Autar. He is sharing some important advice when it comes to working with personal financial data.

Diversity in 230 is not just a story about gender or color anymore. It is about going beyond what’s visible. It is about deep-level diversity.

Diversity & Inclusion officer, Sterre Mkatini wants the University of Twente to be a diverse and inclusive place. Even if that means that in the next decade her own job may evolve into another role. She outlines the profession of an InclusionTreasure Keeper. Where the treasure is that you intrinsically celebrate differences and uniqueness. 

Postdoc researcher, Marlon Nieuwenhuis, wants to know why the majority of students with a diploma in STEM, don’t continue this road in their professional life. If people are educated in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics we need them on board while climate change hits hard... 

A deep-level diversity approach can help us solve the energy crisis.

In this podcast series, we embark on a journey to the year 2030 together with host Anic van Damme to explore professions that are now slowly starting to take shape or don’t yet exist at all.

The need for radically different usage of our planet's resources has never been so high. There is an increasing demand for electricity in the years to come. We need innovative ways to store that energy to take it out whenever and wherever we need it. 

Professor in nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage, Mark Huijben elaborates on the development of next-level batteries. Not only having optimal performance but also being more sustainable. That begins with the design of a battery. Also, the materials being used make a huge difference in their recyclability. 

Gerwin Hoogsteen, a researcher on energy management for smart grids, surprises us with a creative perspective on energy usage and storage. He takes us to the year 2030 where energy is stored locally, in self-driving cars that drive to places with energy overload and take it to the place where you need it: your home. What hurdles do we need to take to make this a reality?

Jaya Balloo is one of the most influential people in the field of cybersecurity.  She explains how the skein of digital infrastructure combined with the never-ending overload of data lead  to a network where cyber threats are a vast reality. 

Balloo lays out that there is a need for a specialist to disentangle this mess in order to minimize the time between detection and response of vulnerabilities. The demand for this profession will have increased dramatically by the year 2030. 

Often attackers use social engineering to gain entrance to our most valuable data. Researcher Jan-Willem Bullee explains what tactics attackers use and how we can train our own information awareness.

How can a profession like teaching, which is as old as humanity, reinvent itself in the future? 

Koen de Pryck, head of the Center of Expertise in Learning and Teaching outlines the innovation of education for the year 2030. Challenged-Based Learning is one of the pillars shaping the future education. Where a teacher and even a university itself will become a Competence Broker, always on the lookout to add value to contribute to the learning process. 

De Pryck explains how wicked problems must be tackled with multidisciplinary teams. 

University of Twente’s Teacher of the Year award winner, Anne Leferink implements this concept in her courses and describes what needs to be sorted out in the years to come to fully benefit from Challenge-Based Learning.

How can scientists and citizens together take research to the next level? One of the pioneers in Citizen Science, Gaston Remmers, looks at data obtained by ordinary people as a major catalyst for a brand new approach to the innovation of healthcare.

Data from patients as a starting point to build your hypothesis on, can lead to discoveries that are so profound that it will change entire conceptions of disease. That’s why in the year 2030 Remmers says that we need a person to analyze and interpret this data. What knowledge should you have and what are the challenges in this future profession?

In the TOPFIT Citizenlab at the University of Twente, researcher Ria Wolkorte is developing this new type of research. She works together with co-researchers experiencing rheumatoid arthritis. How can a Hypothesis Extractor contribute to this innovative approach?

Starting this series from the Human Resource Management Department, professor Tanya Bondarouk explains what role Artificial Intelligence will play in HR in the year 2030.

In the future HR-team that Bondarouk is composing, we need an expert between people management and IT. This team is accommodating both humans and social robots.

Being a Human-Machine Interaction Expert, how do you deal with challenges like ethics? How will you contribute to keeping the human angle a top priority with the upcoming hunger for data?

When it comes to assessing employees, professor Mark van der Meijde and educational advisor Anne Muller describe how they are working on an innovative HR tool that ensures that impact will be equally rewarded as research.