Research

The EHC publishes (preliminary) research results on talent development and honors education in its Journal (www.jehc.eu).

The EHC is associate partner in two EU-funded projects:

• CoTalent: Working in Europe to Connect talent development in Higher Education (2017-2020) www.cotalent.eu
• STEAM+: Innovating STE(A)M in Higher Education through Transdisciplinary Talent Programs (2020-2023) www.steamtalent.eu. See a short video explaining this project.

In addition, we have gathered a list of finished Ph.D. projects in Europe, related to talent development and honors in higher education:

• Teaching for excellence: honors pedagogies revealed, by Marca Wolfensberger (Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2012)
• Hitting the high notes – Challenge in teaching honors students by Karin Scager (Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2013)
• Intelligent interveniëren – Docentprofessionalisering voor honoursonderwijs by Josephina Lappia (University of Twente, Netherlands, 2015)
• Excellence in higher education: Students’ personal qualities and the effects of undergraduate honours programmes, by Ada Kool (Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2016)
• Ethical sensitivity and developing global civic engagement in undergraduate honors students by Ingrid Schutte (University of Humanistic Studies, Netherlands, 2018)
• Identifying expert teachers of students with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Does personality contribute to a teacher’s X-Factor? by Svenja Büttner (Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2018)
• Talent in international business defined: implications and applications for honours education by Petra van Heugten (University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2020)