In a nutshell
- What: A tailor-made thesis program addressing your sustainability question
- Duration: Six months, running from February to July
- Students: An interdisciplinary group of #10-15 master students from Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as from universities of applied sciences in South Holland
- Costs: Get in touch – we’ll be happy to discuss the costs with you in a personal meeting
- Curious? Take a look at previous Thesis Labs.
What is an Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab?
A half-year program for graduating master students from Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities and universities of applied sciences in South Holland. Together, a group of 10–15 students work on your real-world sustainability challenge from a multidisciplinary perspective:
- Individual thesis projects: Each student works on an individual thesis related to your challenge (11 to 30 weeks fulltime). The students are supervised by their own university.
- Bi-weekly sessions: During 6 months, students meet every two weeks for interactive sessions (approx. 2.5 hours). These sessions explore the interdisciplinary context of the challenge and include input from the case holder, professionals, and researchers.
- Interdisciplinary outcome: By the end of the Lab, the students combine their findings into a joint interdisciplinary result — giving you both depth and breadth of insight.
- Organization and supervision: The Lab is organized and supervised by an LDE academic coordinator and an LDE network coordinator.
Why join as a case holder?
- Tailor-made research: Your challenge is at the center of a custom-design thesis program.
- In-depth and multidisciplinary exploration: Gain new insights and deepen your understanding of a complex sustainability issue within your organization.
- Collaboration with top talents: Work closely with a diverse team of talented, graduating master’s students from multiple disciplines and institutions.
- Access to academic expertise: Connect with leading researchers and experts from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities and beyond.
- Network event: You have the opportunity to organize a network event at the end of the Lab, where students present their results not only to you but also to other relevant stakeholders in your field of expertise.
Commission a Thesis Lab
- Sustainability challenge: The challenge must be interdisciplinary so that we can recruit students from various backgrounds, such as: natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, design, law, health, economics, management, humanities and philosophy.
- Timeline & planning: We welcome new Lab opportunities all year-round. However planning takes time. We need to know your challenge by June to launch the Lab in February the next year. From June to January, we prepare the Lab, i.e. we formulate the thesis assignments with you, recruit students and organize the Lab Program of biweekly sessions.
Contact us : Lde_cfs@cml.leidenuniv.nl