What is elop*

elop* stands for environment-focused learning & operative platform.

elop* is a platform for transdisciplinary and transcultural approaches to solving problems relating to the built and social environment, and which addresses real-life planning and project engineering tasks in a holistic sense. The aim is to devise innovative and, in a broad sense, sustainable concepts and solutions that correspond to a transdisciplinary catalogue of criteria. In this respect, we use virtual as well as physical collaboration and communication methods.

Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration are emerging key competences of tomorrow's professionals. The learning and teaching platform elop offers the possibility to acquire such experiences in the framework of a graduate program. At the core of the elop* program, constructed around an innovation-based trans-disciplinary design process, is the development of real projects with actual clients. Students of different disciplines from the elop alliance, an international network of universities, work together using advanced information and collaboration technologies and methods.

Paradigm shift from traditional (linear) solution-finding 

processes to elop*s (holistic) approach.

Nine reasons for elop*

1  elop* is an innovative learning and teaching platform that develops

transdisciplinary solution-finding methods.

2 elop* promotes transcultural experiences by bringing together cultures,

nationalities, and learning styles in a collaboration as equal partners

with shared goals.

3  elop*promotes ‚thinking out of the box‘ to involve a rich repertoire of

approaches that strive for novel ideas and stimulate creativity.

4 elop* fosters the integration of various viewpoints and backgrounds from

a multidisciplinary community of students, teachers, stakeholders and

experts.

5  elop* tackles complex tasks in the realm of the built and social

environment and addresses relevant real world problematics.

6  elop* offers a blended learning experience combining both physical and

virtual collaborative modalities.

7  elop* is process oriented and aims for a synchronous and iterative

design process as opposed to a sequential one.

8  elop* forms an international knowledge alliance sustained by a rich and

diversified collective intelligence.

9  elop*alumni are better prepared for future challenges in a globalised
professional world thanks to the soft skills they acquire in the programme.