Remon Rooij

The 4TU Centre for Engineering Education warmly supports the BK-LAUNCH initiative as it aims to ignite and stimulate entrepreneurial mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors in the new generations of built environment engineers. Good entrepreneurial engineering education nurtures the curiosity of students, challenges them to create added value for society, facilitates interaction with various stakeholders and disciplines, and helps them become leaders of change, either as independent entrepreneurs or as game-changers in existing organizations. The BK-LAUNCH platform is a learning environment initiated from within the faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment that meets these characteristics perfectly and is open to various TU Delft master students and alumni. So, the platform also promotes interdisciplinary learning and collaboration.

Entrepreneurial Engineering Education is one of the five core themes of the 4TU CEE strategic agenda for 2022-2025, along with Challenge-based Education, Responsible Engineering and Ethics, Computational Thinking, and Teaching Excellence & Teacher Professionalization. As the 4TU.CEE TU Delft management team, we are happy to see that this platform has grown into a center of expertise and has set an example for other faculties, institutes, and programs.