15 december 2025

Systems Thinking Pressure Cooker

What – This pressure cooker is an introduction to systems thinking. This pressure cooker can be used to quickly familiarize a group of people with what the characteristics of a system are and have them experience various examples of using systems thinking to explore a topic or question. For whom – The format can be used (and adjusted) for a team of teachers that are not yet familiar with systems thinking, as well as a group of students (all levels; any group size). Why – Guided training in integration of systems thinking in a research project. How long – Approximately 2-2,5 hours in class and a 10 minutes pre-class video.

19 oktober 2021

CHALLx - The Systems Thinking Mindset

Summary of systems thinking principles that help the learner take on a systems thinking mindset.

3 juli 2026

Circulair Economy #5 - Shifting Mindsets for a Circular Future: Systems Thinking, Leadership & Circular Innovation

In this episode, Ilse van den Berckt (UCLL/CIMIO) and Mariam Ioseliani (International Business exchange student) join host Maerhaba Yishake to explore why shifting mindsets, from linear to circular thinking, is a crucial but often overlooked driver in sustainability transitions. Together, they discuss how systems thinking, leadership, and collaboration can help unlock real change in the circular economy.

1 januari 2024

MOOC: Reaching UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Systems Thinking

Tackling the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 may seem like a tall feat. In this seven-week, online short course, you’ll learn a fundamental approach to problem-solving, called systems thinking. It will help you gain tools for systems thinking and modelling before applying what you’ve learned in practical simulations. Equipped with practical tools and insights, you’ll be prepared to contribute to achieving the UN’s SDGs, and making a meaningful impact on global resource management, policy, and the planet. Approach sustainability with a holistic approach Rather than focusing on individual parts of a problem in isolation, systems thinking emphasizes looking at the relationships and interactions behind these components. You’ll delve into this methodology and learn how to visualize and analyze these interactions through dynamic systems models. Explore sustainable development and resource management through practical simulations Next, you’ll apply the tools and methodologies you’ve learned to real-world environmental problems. This includes issues relating to fisheries, climate change, energy, water, and agriculture. These simulations will challenge you to implement sustainable solutions to the circular economy, build resilience during emergencies, and enhancing decision making through participatory systems thinking.

19 oktober 2021

Introduction to Systems Thinking

5 februari 2016

2 2 1 Introduction into systems thinking system delineation

Introduction into systems thinking system delineation

2019

MOOC Food Security and Sustainability: Systems thinking and environmental sustainability

Systems thinking and environmental sustainability: solve the Rubik’s cube Have you ever considered how many aspects of food production affect the natural environment? Every aspect needs to be considered in attaining the future goal to produce enough food for the growing population while at the same time preserving our planet. It’s as difficult as solving a Rubik’s cube; changing one aspect may affect the environment in a major way. Systems theory, or systems thinking, is a way of understanding and working with the complexity of sustainable food production systems, which requires training in different disciplines and an approach that can address this complexity. This environmental studies course enables participants to apply the principles of a systems approach to food production with a focus on environmental sustainability.

10 november 2021

Introduction to Systems Engineering by Maarten Bonnema

What is Systems Engineering? In this talk, Maarten Bonnema from the University of Twente summarizes the most important ways of thinking and reasoning in Systems Engineering. This session was recorded in front of a live audience in October 2021, at Saxion. In the SESAME project the Mechatronics Research Group of Saxion, together with companies Hencon, Hollander Techniek and Riwo and the University of Twente are investigating how Systems Engineering can help small to medium enterprises. This research was funded by SIA.

30 juni 2022

Critical and scientific thinking

Critical thinking is one of the biggest hiatuses in our education system. Learning to distinguish sense from nonsense is of great importance in the information age that we live in. In a systematic way, this book helps you to gain insight into, and subsequently eliminate, the most important reasoning errors that we all tend to make. It also helps you to debunk weak and fallacious arguments and unreliable information. In addition to understanding what critical and scientific thinking entails, you will learn more about what makes science reliable. In times of skepticism regarding science, where (sometimes dangerous) pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories run rampant, this is particularly important. Critical thinking is not a matter of intellectual preference or even self-interest (although one certainly benefits from thinking critically). It is first and foremost a matter of moral and social responsibility. Better thinking leads to a better world. With this book I hope to contribute to that important goal and you, dear student or reader, can do the same!

19 oktober 2021

CHALLx - Making Sense of Complexity

Introducing systems thinking as a way to understand and address complexity.