Creating the University of the Future - A Conversation with Laura Eigbrecht and Ulf-Daniel Ehlers

What are the 'future skills' our young people need, and will the
university of the future be unrecognisable from the universities
of today? Laura Eigbrecht and Professor Ulf-Daniel Ehlers have
gathered some of the top thinkers around the world who are
creating the university of the future. They join Tim this week to
share some of these powerful ideas.


'Creating the University of the Future: A Global View on Future
Skills and Future Higher Education' -
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-42948-5


Laura Eigbrecht is a senior researcher at the Baden-Württemberg
Cooperative State University at the Chair of Educational
Management and Lifelong Learning.


As a doctoral candidate, she conducts research in the field of
transformative and participatory future skills in higher
education. After her binational bachelor's degree and her
master's degree in children's and youth media, she worked at the
children's channel of ARD and ZDF as well as in teaching and
consulting in the field of migration, language and education.


Professor Ulf-Daniel Ehlers is the founder of mindful-leaders.net
and a serial social entrepreneur. He is a full Professor of
Educational Management at Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State
University. In 2011, he launched Germany’s first Cooperative
University, now serving 35,000 students.


In 2017, Ulf founded NextEducation (https://next-education.org/),
focusing on the future of education and Future Skills. He served
as Scientific Director at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology until
2023.


Ulf has collaborated with over 30 universities globally and held
leadership roles in EURASHE and EDEN. He has delivered keynotes
in 45 countries and authored over 20 books and 300 scholarly
articles. A trained systemic coach, Ulf integrates Future Skills
into education for sustainable development.


Social Links


LinkedIn: @laura-eigbrecht -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-eigbrecht-60a586171/


@ulfehlers - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulfehlers/


X: @uehlers - https://twitter.com/uehlers