Partners of CAT

The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning brings together all partners involved in teacher development, teaching innovation and sharing knowledge about teaching and learning. Each partner has its own scope, home base, expertise and approach. In the CAT, they join forces so that they can complement and strengthen each other.

The Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning welcomes all initiatives that share one or more of the common goals, whether faculty, university or bottom-up from the teaching community. The CAT thus aims to represent the joint faculties and teaching community in strategic discussions at national and international levels.

Who are the partners?

  • Centre for Entrepreneurship

    The Utrecht University Centre for Entrepreneurship (UtrechtCE) creates an academic environment in which you can be entrepreneurial.

  • Teaching Community T@UU

    The Teaching Community T@UU (Teaching At Utrecht University) is a network for and by teachers at Utrecht University. Our basic principle is: as a teacher, you learn a lot from each other's experiences and it is also a lot of fun.

  • CHARM-EU

    CHARM-EU is an Erasmus+ funded initiative which aims to develop long term structural and strategic cooperation between European universities. Nine European institutions are part of CHARM-EU, including Utrecht University. CHARM-EU represents a Challenge-Driven, Accessible, Research-based, and Mobile model for the co-creation of a European University aligned with the European Values and the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Center for Research and Development of Health Professions Education

    You can come to us for educational expertise for healthcare training courses. We offer support and advice to training courses within and outside UMC Utrecht.

  • Freudenthal Institute

    You can come to the Freudenthal Institute as a HE lecturer for guidance on educational innovations, didactic concepts, public communication and teaching.

  • Learning Analytics

    Project Learning Analytics supports students and staff in initiating, implementing, and evaluating data-driven projects. Consider questions such as: How do students move through the curriculum of my programme? When and how do students use the course materials within my course? How do we offer students more insight into their own study behaviour? The project team offers time and expertise when it comes to educational advice, privacy-related issues, and support in the technical development of tooling.

  • Educational Development & Training

    Educational Development & Training supports education professionals throughout their careers. As a UU lecturer or education director, for example, you can come to us for educational advice, training and individual coaching. For example, we help lecturers to develop further with Start-to-teach workshops, in BKO trajectories, Professional Consultation or with reflection at SKO level. We are also closely involved in, for instance, educational courses in Educational Leadership, Honours Teaching and Interdisciplinary Education. Educational Development & Training also supports educational innovations; we help lecturers who want to innovate their teaching through the Educational Resources Pool (EMP) and guide lecturers doing research on their own teaching SoTL.

  • Continuing Education

    Besides undergraduate and graduate education, Utrecht University also offers education for professionals. This branch of education focuses on professionals with academic training questions and is directly linked to UU research and education.

  • Programme Community Engaged Learning

    Community Engaged Learning (CEL) at Utrecht University is education in which students, teachers and external partners work together on shared social issues. As a result, new insights for complex problems emerge, and we train students to become socially engaged citizens and professionals. UU strives to ensure that student social engagement is embedded in all programmes. The CEL programme encourages and supports the development of CEL education.

  • Programme Interdisciplinary Education

    Utrecht University aims to educate its students to become critical global citizens with an eye for an open society. Interdisciplinary education plays an important role in this. With an interdisciplinary team, the programme works to enable an educational culture in which good interdisciplinary education is self-evident, teachers are encouraged and supported to innovate their teaching and educational interventions are scientifically researched.

  • Teaching & Learning Lab

    The Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL) is the teaching laboratory at Utrecht University for teachers, students, didactic researchers and companies. It is a place to jointly explore, develop and test new possibilities in educational practice. Teachers innovate their teaching and inspire colleagues with new ideas.

  • Technology and Learning Department (TEL) UMC Utrecht

    The Technology and Learning Department (TEL) at UMC Utrecht advises teachers on the integral design of blended learning and online education and provides IT tools for this purpose. TEL also develops its own products such as e-learning modules and knowledge clips. TEL facilitates digital testing and supports the organisation of webinars. Developed products are managed and maintained. For direct hands-on support, the local Education Service Desk is on standby.

  • Utrecht University Library

    The University Library supports teachers on information literacy education and open sharing of self-created educational materials. You can also come to us with questions about copyright: what are you allowed or not allowed to do with other people's work? Finally, the University Library also supports access and use of materials from the Special Collections and education in the field of Digital Humanities.

  • USG consultancy

    USG Consultancy works intensively with clients on solutions to complex issues in the public domain. Characteristic of the approach of the Department of Management and Organisation Science is a combination of management and organisation science insights, social commitment, practical applicability and great accessibility.

  • UU Honours College

    The UU Honours College offers motivated students the chance to follow an extra challenging and inspiring educational programme alongside their regular studies. This education has a strong interdisciplinary character. Innovative ideas arise precisely by working together and involving various disciplines. In addition, the UU Honours College offers lecturers the opportunity to train in honours education.

Contact

As a UU lecturer, you can reach CAT and partners via the joint Teaching Support helpdesk. Here you can ask all your questions about teaching.