Content
The Bachelor's Final Project (BEP) is the last course of the Major Sustainable Innovation. The course invites students to individually go through the entire research cycle for a specific socio-technical issue. This includes the articulation of clear research questions, a transparent and relevant research methodology, data collection and analysis, and the development of policy, strategy and/or research recommendations. Though students will have to perform individually, and will receive individual grades, multiple students can work and collaborate on the same issue in student teams. Student teams will be supervised by a Technology, Innovation & Society (TIS) or Philosophy&Ethics (PH&E) staff member.
Learning objectives
Under supervision, Students are capable to:
- formulate a research question fitted to the problem and relevant scholarly literature
- perform literature search
- apply and modify relevant scientific theory in order to solve a technology related problem
- make an adequate research design for empirical research
- apply relevant scientific methods for empirical research
- relate interpretation of data to theory and to a policy advice
- individually write a scientific report
- reflect and think systematically
Enrollment
A student can only be admitted to this course if he/she has obtained one quartile before the actual start of the Bachelor Final Project (BEP):
- At least 120 ects, of which:
- All first year courses, including the first year track course and 10 ects of elective courses
- And at least one of the following courses:
- 0HV50 (Behavioral Research Methods 2: Dealing with data), or
- 0SV80 (Sustainable Technology in Society Advanced), or
- 0SV100 (Economics of Innovation Advanced).
Timeline
This is a general timeline for starting your BEP in Q1/Q3. Please note that the BEP can only be done in one semester (two quartiles)!
Specific dates will be announced via email (information meeting) and CANVAS 0BEPS0
| Quarter 4 or 2 prior to BEP | |
| Plenary introduction meeting for students: announcement via email | |
| wk 4-5 | Registration in Osiris (also if you want to do ISBEP) and indicate preferences via Canvas (student) |
| wk 5 | Admission check (Center for Student Administration (CSA) IE&IS) |
| wk 6 | Coupling student-project-supervisor; student is informed (Education coordination IE&IS) |
| wk 7-8 | Getting acquainted with supervisor, group and project; settlement of dates and meetings etc (student and supervisor) and submission project outline |
| Quarter 1-2 or Quarter 3-4 | |
| Q1/Q3, week 1 | Start of the project |
| Q1/Q3, week 8 | Intermediate report |
| Q2/Q4, week 8 | Final report |
Q3/interim period | |
| Q3, week 8/mid-August | Resubmission |
Forms
Forms, like final assessment form, code of conduct and requesting an extension can be found via the link below.
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More information
Want to know more? Contact Center for Student Administration IE&IS at +31 40 - 247 2190 or via the contact form below.