Education
The ICO educational programme provides a conceptual basis and organizing framework with the aim of supporting PhD candidates to develop themselves to the highest possible level of professional researcher in the field of education and training. To this end, ICO establishes formal educational structures…
Theme Groups
The different elements in the ICO mission lead to the organization of the research programme into ‘thematic groups’. These thematic groups can be regarded as Special Interest Groups. The thematic groups are responsible for the organization of ICO’s thematic courses and also contribute to…
ICO Membership
Institutes of fourteen Dutch and Belgian universities participate in ICO. These universities constitute the inter-university graduate school ICO. To become a member of ICO, you have be appointed at one of the ICO universities, and should be employed in a faculty or institute participating…
Graduating around the Globe
Protocols, principles, and traditions for PhD graduations. Examples from the learning sciences Ton de Jong (University of Twente) has collected an overview of PhD regulations and traditions from around the world and combined them in the booklet Graduating around the Globe, with interesting insights…
Learn MorePromotie Hugo Bronkhorst
Op vrijdag 17 september 2021 zal Hugo Bronkhorst (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) om 11:00 uur zijn proefschrift “I just do not understand the logic of this”: intervention study aimed at secondary school students’ development of logical reasoning skills verdedigen. Meer informatie over zijn onderzoek staat op…
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On Friday, 10 September 2021, at 16:15 hours exactly, Sofie Van den Eynde (University of Groningen and KU Leuven) will defend her thesis Blending of mathematics and physics: undergraduate students’ reasoning in the context of the heat equation. Due to Covid-19 regulations, only a…
Learn MoreSUMMER BREAK ICO OFFICE
The ICO Office is taking a summer break, and will be closed from the 16 July until the 16 August. If you do have any questions, or information you want to share with us, do not hesitate to send an email to c.vonk@uu.nl. We will…
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