Students Facilitating the Future – What students think of Talent Development.

Student essays for the INTED Oslo honors conference 2025

Abstract

This unique collection of 20 notes is comprised of essays from honours students all over Europe and the Unites States. The essays were submitted for the upcoming Honors Conference 2025, organised by Oslo University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Education (INTED) and supported by the European Honours Council. This collection reflects and reinforces the conference theme ‘Students Facilitating the Future’.

The notes in this collection engage with this theme in at least two ways. Firstly, many students explain how their – often inter- or even transdisciplinary – programs are shaped around current complex problems of the world. When confronted with the complexity of many societal issues, students discover the necessity of working over disciplinary boundaries, intercultural and with voices from outside of the university. In many cases, the incorporation of real-world issues finally allowed students to see abstract learning outcomes be translated into concrete actions. Moreover, these types of projects are experienced challenging due to - at start - open ends and therefore their inherent unpredictability – which is specifically appreciated in many of the notes.