Education
Grassroots en Grass Shoots grants 2025-2026 awarded
The winners of the Grassroots and Grass Shoots 2025-2026 have been announced. Seven (teams of) FSW lecturers will receive grants to innovate their teaching in the coming acadamic year.

This year's projects are very diverse in nature: from e-learning modules to chatbots and from online collaboration to vodcasts. The AI chatbot plays an important role in two projects: as a means to make students aware of the possibilities and limitations of AI, but also as a tool to test students on new skills. Podcasts are here to stay, returning in this round as a form of testing but especially as a way to share knowledge and personal experiences.
Grassroots projects
- Ambra Brizi (Psychology) - AI chatbot as a mirror
- Marit Guda, Kim Stroet & Tirza Smits (Education and Child Studies)- (Further) development of online collaboration tool
- Sander Hölsgens (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) - Podcasts to connect theory and application within Social Theory
- Joram van Ketel, Jacqueline Zadelaar, Bunga Pratiwi & Juan Claramunt Gonzalez (Psychology) - Redesigning practicals in Psychometrics
- Joanne Mouthaan, Anna Hudson & Maartje Schoorl (Psychology) -
AI chatbot use in clinical skills education: Feasibility and effectiveness for suicide prevention skills assessment - Laura Nawijn, Anne van Giezen & Joanne Mouthaan (Psychology) - E-Learning for GroupWise Thesis Supervision
- Franz Wurm (Psychology) - Embedding an Entrepreneurial Skills workshop
Grass Shoots projects
- Rachel Plak & Karlijn Pieterse (Education and Child studies) - The vodcast as a new end-of-course assignment
- Kelly Ziemer (Psychology) - Podcasts and Panels: Starting a Conversation about Self-Care