Symposium Goal-setting in Education

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Michaéla Schippers, professor of Behaviour and Performance Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) will deliver her inaugural address IKIGAI: Reflecting on goals optimizes performance and happiness on 16 June 2017. 

The address will be preceded at noon by a goal setting symposium entitled Goal setting reduces inequalities and boosts student performance, organised in cooperation with CEL. This symposium will be concluded by a panel discussion on the idea to make goal-setting and other positive psychology interventions an integral part of the curriculum in order to enhance life skills and academic performance of students. Speakers include Ad Scheepers, senior policy advisor and researcher at RSM; Daniel Roos, Director jINC; and Henk Oosterling, associate professor of philosophy and EUR.

During the symposium, the Erasmus Centre for Career and Study Success (E=CS2) will be officially launched. This centre will be dedicated to research and activities connected to goal setting in educational and business settings.

You are invited for the symposium and the inaugural adress.

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