The first EELISA Research-Based Learning Symposium took place on 17-18 May at Istanbul Technical University, collocated with the InnoCORE R&I Symposium on 16 May.
In recent years, a new approach to education has been emerging – a perspective that brings state-of-the-art research outcomes into the classroom and allows students to come face-to-face with real-life challenges that we aim to solve through research. This is called “Research-Based Learning” (RBL). A novel methodological and philosophical approach to education that, in contrast to traditional education where technical skills are built bottom-up from theoretical foundations towards applications, shows students how to approach real problems from the get-go, the foundational knowledge that they require, and how it can be obtained.