In the city of Leiden, the city with the oldest university of the Netherlands, a new initiative was born last year! In this city of knowledge, where so many people develop their skills on many levels, we don’t really have the gifted students in our community in sight. Still, there are many small projects initiated by individuals, ECHA members and other experts, all working with gifted students.
The idea came up to combine all the available knowledge and experience and try to make a joint effort to stimulate the talented and gifted students and create more opportunities to prevent underachievement.
This project is meant for the age group 0-24 years. This means that preschools, primary and secondary education and higher education like the College (Hogeschool) of Leiden and the University of Leiden work together in this project and cooperate with all the experts in our region.
The concept we are working on is to create an (digital) academy for talent development:
“de Leidse Academie voor Talent Ontwikkeling”.
At the moment we are working on the idea and are getting ready to take the next step. In September we would like to present our initiative to our ECHA colleagues by means of a poster presentation.