Educating on Sustainability Across Institutes: The 4TU.Responsible Sustainability Challenge
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Date: 5 February 2026
š Location: Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) / Zwarte Doos 1.04
Event overview
The 4TU.Responsible Sustainability Challenge (4TU.RSC) is a multidisciplinary, inter-university education initiative designed to foster sustainability leadership, challenge-based learning, and cross-institution collaboration among top Masterās students from the 4TU.FederationāTU Delft, TU Eindhoven, and University of Twente.
This event highlights how the 4TU.RSC honours track operationalised transdisciplinary sustainability education by bringing together students from different study fields to tackle real-world sustainability challenges posed by industry partners and external organisations.
What you will learn
- Programme structure: The 4TU.RSC is a 15 ECTS MSc honours programme built around Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) that integrates technical expertise with leadership and professional development.
- Transdisciplinary teams: Students collaborate across engineering, energy, ethics, and materials domains to analyse sustainability problems and propose impactful solutions.
- Real impact: Teams work directly with external stakeholders to define challenges, conduct research, and deliver actionable insights for sustainability implementation.
- Skills development: The track emphasises both hard and soft skillsāsystems thinking, multidisciplinary collaboration, project management, and professional communication.
Why it matters
With sustainability at the forefront of global engineering education, this initiative exemplifies how institutes can educate future leaders who are prepared to confront complex societal and environmental challenges through innovative, cooperative approaches.
Who should attend
Students, educators, researchers, and industry partners interested in advanced sustainability education, multidisciplinary collaboration, and university-industry engagement.
Track Organisers
4TU.Energy, together with 4TU.Centres for High-Tech Materials and Ethics & Technology, and the honours programmes of TU Delft, TU/e, and University of Twente.
Contact and Questions: Dr. Sha Lou, s.lou@tue.nlĀ