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<div>http:<br/></universityinnovation.org/images/4/40/div><div>[[File:Img2276.JPG|thumb]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable urban development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente. The University of Twente offers a unique undergraduate honours programme called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social sciences. ATLAS is a project-based and student-centered bachelors, with a very international character. This programme also encourages students to go beyond just learning, it aims to provide hands-on experience with conducting research, tackling real-world problems and making an impact.</div>
In his first year at ATLAS he was nominated by the dean of ATLAS to partake in the UIF programme, after he completed a research project into sustainable mobility in Curitiba, Brazil. This research project started with writing a socio-technical scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil. This scenario described a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. After completing the desk research, the team flew out to Brazil and investigated what the best approach was to implement this culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.