Recognition & Rewards Festival 2024
On Friday, November 8th, we welcomed around 200 participants to the Recognition & Rewards Festival. At the Mauritskazerne in Ede, attendees engaged in dialogue through 20 different workshops.
This year the Recognition & Rewards Festival’s theme was ‘Developing diversified and talented teams’.
Read more on the FESTIVAL THEME
During the Recognition & Rewards Festival, we zoomed in on this. We focused on a team-oriented mindset and concrete tools to put Recognition & Rewards into practice within teams. In dialogue, through a column and a ‘teamnote’ we deepened the theme plenary.
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The workshops specifically addressed the subject matter. For example on how participants can open-up the conversation about team based working within their department, research groups etc. and how to think about talents, development, ambitions, competencies and complementarity instead of only skills or outputs that people already have on an individual level. And in doing so, we will certainly involve early career academics. For example with a workshop on recognising diverse PhD trajectories.
We also looked at what role leadership plays in academic teams. And what leadership means for talent selection, assessment and development. Participants gained an understanding of the function of inclusive leadership in fostering diverse teams. They learned practical strategies for effectively recognising and rewarding diverse talents, ultimately enhancing their ability to implement inclusive leadership practices within their teams.
The festival is organised by the Recognition & Rewards Programme, a partnership between the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), the Ideologically Based Universities (NLU), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) with funding and support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
An impression of the previous edition:
