Information about our international minor (exchange programme), spring semester:
Disruptive Events: (Inter)national Disaster, Resilience and Migration. This programme is offered by Avans University of Applied Sciences.
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COLLABORATION
This minor program is a collaboration between 3
academies of Avans University of Applied Sciences; Built
Environment and Infrastructure, Governance and Security,
andTechnology of Health and Environment.The program is
hosted by theAcademy for Built Environment and
Infrastructure.
Many partners from the field contribute to our program with
workshops, excursions, lectures.This will allow you to
understand the profound complexity of disruptive events and
you will be able to understand what it means for you in the
future. Some of the partners are; Firefighters, Dutch army,
Red Cross, Migrant reception centres, Cordaid, Province
Noord-Brabant, Municipality Breda, Built to Impact,
NatuurMonumenten,TU Eindhoven andTU Delft.
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STUDY BACKGROUND
Students from any bachelor background can apply.To ensure the
multidisciplinarity of the program tutors also have different
backgrounds.This enables you to understand disruptive events from
different perspectives
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LANGUAGE:
The programme will be fully in English in 2021.
International discourse is valuable for the understanding
of the complexity of problems that Europe and the
Netherlands are facing. Therefore, we especially
welcome students from abroad to bring their experience
and perspectives.
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AVANS:
Avans University of Applied Sciences is the best
university of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands for
already many years. The quality of the education
and the services of the school are outstanding.
Avans has the ambition to prepare students for the
insecurities that the future might bring. This minor
program enables you to be prepared for the
unexpected.
TEACHERS:
The minor program will be guided by an experienced team of
teachers with different background. All of them have
experience working with and in disruptive events. The team is
open minded, hands-on, proactive and able to facilitate
multidisciplinary collaborations. Tutors have a background in
among others; security studies, architecture, business
administration, geography, environmental sciences, politics,
social studies, development studies. All tutors have years of
educating experience.
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PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Disaster risk reduction Migration, policy and practice
Groupwork, assignments, courses,
guest lectures, workshops, electives
Track-specific courses,
Fieldwork, study trip
Feb April July
Period 1 Period 2
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(Inter)national Disaster, Resilience and Migration
This minor programme is framed around 2 modules and in total 11 courses of in total 30
ECTS. During the 2 modules you will learn to understand different types of events with
a disruptive impact on society.
CURRICULUM
Module 1: Disaster Risk Reduction 14 ECTS
• Experimenting with innovative technologies in emergency response
• System thinking in disaster resilience and recovery
• Climate change impacts
• Epidemics disaster response and prevention
Module 2: Migration, policy and practice 14 ECTS
• Understanding migration dynamics, governance and policy
• Participative research in refugee/migrant camp
• Ethics and migration
• Preventing, Detecting and Responding to theViolent ExtremistThreat
General: 2 ECTS
• Professional in a disruptive event
• Exhibition of results
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(Inter)national Disaster, Resilience and Migration
Pe Lamerigts
Security studies
Joop de Zwart
Ethics in migration
Kenny Meesters
Emergency Response
Eefje Hendriks
Disaster resilience
Mart Verwijmeren
Climate Change impact
Pascal Bekkers
Resilience and security
Floris-Jan Donders
Governance
Lisa de Wit
Epidemics
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UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION DYNAMICS, GOVERNANCE AND POLICY
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PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN A REFUGEE / MIGRANT CAMP
The study trip is a fixed part of this minor program. If you subscribe for the minor
program you will also join the field trip. Earlier field trips have been to the tent
camps in Calais, the refugee camps on the Greek island Lesbos, the Italian city
Palermo, the migrant and conflict situation in Bosnia. Seeing the situation with your
own eyes will improve your understanding of the complexity. Next year we will go
to Bosnia again and you have an additional opportunity to study sea contamination
in Finland.
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PREVENTING, DETECTING AND
RESPONDING TO THE VIOLENT
EXTREMIST THREAT
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ETHICS AND MIGRATION
“Refugee shelter in the region, is
that a good idea?”
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IMPRESSION FROM THE TRIP TO BOSNIA
In 2020 we will go to Bosnia again!
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IMPRESSION FROM THE TRIP TO BOSNIA
In 2020 we will go to Bosnia again!
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IMPRESSION FROM THE TRIP TO BOSNIA
In 2020 we will go to Bosnia again!
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PREVENTING, DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO THE VIOLENT EXTREMIST THREAT
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WHY STUDY DISRUPTIVE EVENTS?
• Prepare and respond to urgent global issues
• Professional preparation for changes in society
• Develop critical content and methodological skills
• Translate theoretical ideas into practice
• Solution oriented through practical skills
• Possible internships or thesis projects in
collaboration with our partners
• Excellent study facilities and expert lecturers of
Avans University of Applied Sciences.
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MORE INFORMATION?
• Follow us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/disruptiveevents/
• Follow us on LinkedIn:
http://linkedin.nl/company/disruptiveevents
• Look at the online version of the study trip magazine
of Lesbos on ISSUU.
• Read the information about the minor programme
on Kies op Maat.
https://www.kiesopmaat.nl/modules/avans/AB_I/139
757/
• Mail us with your general questions:
minoren.abi@avans.nl
For content related questions:
e.hendriks3@avans.nl (disaster risk reduction)
jg.dezwart@avans.nl (migration, policy and practice)
Notes de l'éditeur
Hello, Goodmorning, good afternoon, good evening.
Welcome to our Avans University virtual information session. Today we are introducing our Disruptive Events Minor program. This 30 ECTS program concentrates on international disaster resilience, migration and climate change.
Today, I am here with one of our specialists in migration, Pe Lamerigts. I am Eefje Hendriks the program coordinator and have expertise in disaster resilience. We have prepared for you a short presentation of about 30 minutes. The idea is that this is a Q&A session. We will go over the course and the content of each course. And at the end we will have time for some questions.
Don’t worry if you join late or if we are not able to answer all of your questions during this session. I will share contact information at the end of this presentation so that you can remain in contact.
So, the Disuptive Events minor program is an elective program of 30 ECTS meant for third year bachelor students from different study backgrounds. This minor program is a collaboration between the Avans academy of built-environment and infrastructure, security studies, social studies and geography. We have selected a team of amazing experts from the different faculties.
In the assignments students work with real-life cases provided to us by our partners in the field. We work together with different humanitarian agencies, universities.
Every august we welcome students from completely different contexts from different areas of expertise to study with us. We encourage the participation of students from different disciplines as this enables us to understand the complexity of problems and develop more innovative solutions.
Big events increasingly impacting our society. It is crucial that we are able to respond in an adequate way that reduces risk and considers resilience of our society. From different disciplines we have to think how we respond to floods, migration flows, hurricanes, epidemics, earthquakes and extremist threats. We have to be able to predict what is coming and take adequate measures.
Within the program you can choose to focus on international disaster, migration and resilience.
It is an intensive program that is split up in two blocks. The first starts at the end of August.
Both tracks share the same first period from august until November. In this first period you will get to know the other students in groupwork assignments where you will receive course, guest lectures and workshops. In this first period you have also 1 elective course, including a study trip to Finland. In this course you will understand how to respond in a disaster situation understanding resilience to natural hazards. A thing we are keen on is knowledge sharing among peers. During the courses you will understand their background and expertise as well.
At the admission stage you pick your specialization for the second part. It both specialization tracks we have room for up to 30 students. In these specializations you will go deep into the content.
In the second part you can choose study migration, policy and practice or environmental disaster analysis and communication. In the first Migration policy and practice you have track-specific course that we will tell you more about in this presentation including a study trip to Bosnia. In the second track, environmental disaster analysis and communication you have study the impact of climate change in a dutch case and supported by track-specific research workshops.
During the whole program we have a list of elective activities and guest lectures that you can attend to. We are proud of our network of professionals we have that provide guest lectures giving you a good understanding of practice. At the end of this program you are fully armed to continue in the field of disaster, migration and climate change. You will be a professional that is able to understand the complexity of these societal problems. Our students end up taking their knowledge further in a bachelor thesis topic or working in the field after their studies. Hopefully you have in-depth knowledge of the specialization that you have chosen but also a more general understanding of disruptive events.
In this 1/2 year Multidisciplinary Minor programme, you will acquire a broad overview of hazards and approaches to risk, disaster reduction and disaster response. Part of the program is experiencing disaster through simulations and site visits.
In this program you gain experience in analysing complex challenges and providing sustainable solutions for disaster contexts and become a leader in disaster risk and resilience with your own background!
The specialization (Inter)national Disaster, Migration and Resilience starts with courses related to disaster risk reduction and continues with courses about migration policy and practice.
We have selected a team of experts on these topics.
I will now explain more about the content of the program starting with disaster risk reduction.
In the first course you will learn to select and use innovative technologies in emergency response. You will use gaming and simulations to test your ideas in practice. Last year students could test their fire response action plan with the firefighters.
In this course you will be provide a system thinking approach to look at disaster resilience and recovery. You will work on a case provide by one of our partners to solve their problem in a strategic way.
In this course you will understand the scientific background concerning climate change impacts. You will be updated about the lastest findings and leave this course having an excellent understanding of all fact and mechanism behind climate change.
We see it in the news every day and the way to respond to an epidemic outbreak is a vivid topic for discussion. In this course you will learn how to respond and prevent epidemic disasters in a workshop form.
If you have further questions you can contact us.
If anything has not been answered please contact us with your questions.