Competency-based development with Open University
In 2025, the Open University organised an inspiring Webinar every two months around one of the five core competences from the KIVI competence framework. These interactive sessions offered participants practical insights and concrete tools for continuing professional development.
The year concluded with the fifth and final webinar in this series, focusing on competency E: Professional Commitment. This competence revolves around ethics, sustainability, safety and continuous professional development (CPD). Essential pillars for any (future) Chartered Engineer or Young KIVI Engineer.
The KIVI competency framework focuses on a systemic skillset that is essential to effectively address technological and societal challenges. The five competency areas are:
A. Technical knowledge and understanding: Deepen your technical expertise and keep abreast of the latest innovations.
B. Design, innovation and technical implementation: Develop skills to realise creative and practical solutions within a multidisciplinary context.
C. Leadership, responsibility and quality: Grow in leadership roles and contribute to quality assurance and knowledge sharing.
D. Communication, stakeholders and team skills: Strengthen your collaboration and communication with various stakeholders.
E. Professional commitment: Embrace ethics, sustainability, safety and continuous professional development (CPD).
Digital transformation and innovation in ecosystems
During this webinar, we delve into the impact of digital transformation and the importance of data. Our experts will show how data-driven insights help organisations work smarter and create a competitive advantage. Both beginners and advanced users will get valuable insights and practical tools from this session.
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Towards enduring sourcing relationships
In today's networked world, cooperation between organisations is indispensable. Combining different competences creates added value and synergy. Yet collaboration is anything but easy: various factors can lead to tensions, escalation or even the termination of a collaboration.
This webinar, in cooperation with Sourcing Netherlands, focuses on the challenges of strategic collaborations. From a dynamic and behavioural perspective, we explore how to strengthen collaborations sustainably. In doing so, we pay attention to social information systems, the meaning of signals and their role in mitigating risks. We also explain current research that organisations can directly participate in and benefit from.
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Perspectives on organising and leadership: not how to do it, but how to do it
What does leadership mean in practice? Who really has influence and power in an organisation? In this webinar, Drs. Mario Kieft shows how organisations are not malleable according to fixed structures, but constantly arise in everyday interactions, fields of tension and meaning-making. Here, leadership is not seen as a function or style, but as a process of influence and co-creation in contexts full of uncertainty, friction and change.
The webinar invites you to look with an open, inquisitive attitude at what really happens in organisations. With practical examples, theoretical windows and a lively narrative style, Mario challenges you to rethink your own ideas about leadership and organisational development. No prescriptions, but perspectives that invite you to think, doubt and do things differently.
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Responsible engineering
As engineers, we develop and deliver technical solutions that have an impact on both direct stakeholders and wider societal contexts. In this webinar, Prof Johan Versendaal shows how to design and implement technical solutions in an ethically responsible way, so that impacts and side effects are carefully considered.
Among other things, the webinar covers the application of legislation such as the AVG and the AI Act, and the use of methods such as Value Sensitive Design and the Ethical Matrix to realise responsible designs. The insights are directly applicable for engineers who want to work professionally and socially responsible.
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2026
With the intention of jointly organising a recurring webinar series, we are building on the Open University's successful 2025 webinars. These bi-monthly sessions, based on the five core competences from the KIVI competency framework, offered participants practical and immediately applicable insights for professional development.
A concrete example is the February event at the Open University, the Informatics Study Day, which focused on topical themes, knowledge sharing and interaction. This event shows how such meetings effectively support professionals and provides a strong basis for a structural webinar series.