Erasmus Education Lab

The Erasmus Education Lab, an open space with wood elements. In the space you can see people walking around and talking.

The Erasmus Education Lab is an open, light-filled space, equipped with several workspaces where you can work without interruption, alone or together with your team, on innovations within your education. It is also an inspiring location to share knowledge or insights with colleagues from your own faculty or other faculties or departments.

The facilities of the Erasmus Education Lab are available to lecturers and support staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam who are working on innovating education. The space regularly hosts workshops, training sessions (MicroLabs) and events.

The Erasmus Education Lab offers..

  • An open, light and flexible space, centrally located on Campus Woudestein;
  • A space with a staircase, perfect for presentations or kick-offs for up to 45 people;
  • Tables on the side, suitable for groups of up to 8 people, ideal for (re)design sessions, workshops or project meetings;
  • The possibility of using the entire space: start with a plenary presentation in the space with the stairs, then work together in different break-out groups and finish with lunch or drinks;
  • Studio facilitiesOpens external in the heart of the space, where the production team of the Media Support Centre is ready to help you with a variety of media productions.

Rooms

  • Event room

    The event space is recognisable by its staircase and can accommodate up to 45 people in a presentation setup or 14 people in a meeting setup. Want to break up into smaller groups during your session? Then the three inspiration tables at the side of the lab are perfect for this.
    AV facilities: large presentation screen (with use of own laptop), handheld or headset microphone, hybrid meeting unit (use on request).

  • Inspiration rooms

    On the side of the lab are three inspiration tables that you can use for up to eight people.  
    AV facilities: each table has a Samsung flip screen that you can use as a whiteboard or connect to your laptop (with an HDMI cable). Given the open space, hybrid sessions are not possible.

  • Training room

    For a session where more privacy is needed, the closed training room can accommodate up to 7 people.
    AV facilities: presentation screen that can also be used as a hybrid screen with the Logitech Meetup (using your own laptop and an Outlook-generated MS Teams link).

    Training room. A closed glass-walled room where people are having a meeting.

How to use the Education Lab

Would you like to organise an event, brainstorm or other activity in the Education Lab? Then contact us at educationlab@eur.nl. For each request, we first check whether it fits within the mission and vision of the Community for Learning & Innovation before approving or rejecting it.

You help us a lot by answering the following questions in your e-mail:

⁃ What kind of activity do you want to organise? Share a short description of your event or session and the topic.
⁃ At what date and time?
⁃ How many people will participate in the activity?
⁃ Do you want to use catering during the activity?

Erasmus Education Lab

Email address
educationlab@eur.nl
Room
Ground floor of Polak Building via its own entrance 'Erasmus Education Lab & Studio'
Address
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA
Rotterdam

Opening hours
Monday – Friday: 9:00 - 17:00
Saturday – Sunday: Closed
Reservations outside regular opening hours are on request.

Frequently Asked Questions

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