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Keynote VU Education Day 2025: Mieke Lopes Cardozo & Koen Wessels
Re-imagining education

Dr Lopes Cardozo and dr Wessels opened the VU Education Day 2025 with a thought provoking and creative plenary session. They took the audience along an exploratory journey on what it might mean to radically re-imagine our education systems in today’s world, and what this means for us as educators.

Tapping into cutting edge insights from the Living Systems theory, we explored how our education can meaningfully participate in an interconnected, co-evolving world. Imagine we allow such words to transform the university. What would it liberate inside ourselves, in how we work together, how we teach, how we engage with society and the natural world?

School of Regenerative Educators || Learning Community

Double portrait of Mieke Lopes Cardozo and Koen Wessels

About the speakers

Mieke Lopes Cardozo is Associate Professor in Regenerative Education in the Governance and Inclusive Development Research Group at the Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam. She is co-founder and director of the School of Regenerative Educators, with Bas van den Berg and Koen Wessels. Mieke's transdisciplinary work focuses on the role of education in processes of regeneration, peacebuilding and inclusive development. She is chair of the Fair, Resilient and Inclusive Societies (FRIS) education innovation  scholarship programme  at UvA. She lives in Amsterdam, is a mother of twins, partner of an architect and is a committed reiki and yoga practitioner/educator.

Koen Wessels works as a regenerative practitioner engaging in a variety of projects in the educational field, with a focus on growing capacities for regeneration in educational professionals and teams. He is co-founder and director of the School of Regenerative Educators, with Bas van den Berg and Mieke Lopes Cardozo. He is also a co-founder of De Bildung Academie and holds a PhD in relational pedagogy. He lives in Utrecht, with Irish Setter Papyon and his partner, and is a committed TaiChi practitioner.

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