BESPOKE ADVICE TO COORDINATORS OF CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT TRAININGS
—‘I had the opportunity to work with Tikvah in May 2021 when I was working for UN-Habitat as legal specialist. I was designing a capacity development programme on policy and legal drafting for the Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tikvah provided pro bono advice on how to develop a blended programme for the Ministry blending in-country sessions with online and off-line activities. It was extremely useful and easy to work with her. Tikvah helped me appreciate the opportunities blended trainings can offer to overcome the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic and improve the impact of capacity building activities. She quickly understood the programme needs and challenges and proposed workable solutions.’
Projectlead Gianluca Crispi, Lead Legal Specialist, UN-Habitat Nairobi, Kenya.
Curios? Feel free to contact our senior advisor and teacher trainer directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
You
may be in the initial stages of envisioning blended capacity development
training for a project proposal or your institute, or longing to re-envision an
existing ‘traditional’ face to face approach. You may want to
translate an existing capacity development course into a Mass Open Online
Course (MOOC). You may be the
training coordinator or a project lead. You may be designing material from
scratch, or working with shelf material, attempting to adjust it for blended
use. Your training team may be new, or you may work with experienced trainers
who have never worked in a blended/remote way.
Whatever your starting point, our Studio comes alongside you, and partners with you to ensure the following qualities and impact for your curriculum design. Have a look at our coherent and holistic design angles and our design studio to discover more about our approach.
What makes us unique is that we bridge silos between your (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water/ climate) content (research, projects), and the body of knowledge and practice of effective curriculum design.
However, we do not tell you what to teach. You don't start from scratch with us. We understand the field you are coming from, and keep an active interest in the fields we specialise in. We dare to ask you really good questions. We bring you cutting edge fresh ideas on possible angles you can take to your content. We take your pedagogical ideas, and amplify and deepen them for your (re)design.
Find our technical content and regional focus here.
We work as equal partners with our clients. Our agile approach, in between people and organisations, is especially suitable for coordinators who are also themselves in charge of a project budget, such as European-funded Programmes.
We also move lightly and organically between the academic world of research and academic staff, and the world of capacity development.
For more insights our our values see our manifesto.
Price
Our
Studio gives you the desired result and impact, with a package price for your
bespoke assignment.
Simpler assignments
For simpler assignments (i.e. with a single coordinator) which require a quick output
we follow this simple initial setup:
1. 60 min onboarding (listening to your problem, to understand where you are stuck, what you’re trying to do). In person or via video call.
2. You complete and submit a one-page document with a more specific explanation of your issue
3. 60 minute advice virtual session giving you several alternatives
4. You choose one alternative
5. We formulate the quotation for the programme of work leading to a curriculum design.
This quick output costs:
€250 excl. VAT, excl. travel costs
€302 incl. VAT, excl. travel costs
The initial session results in a briefing and accompanying tailor-made quotation for the entire bespoke assignment required to achieve your desired outcome. The cost of this initial quotation will be discounted from the total cost of the assignment.
In principle, we do not draft up proposals as we prefer to keep things as simple as possible using dialogue and quotations.
More comprehensive asssignments - 2-3 scenarios
For more comprehensive assignments, depending on what you need we use the following set-up.
Based on the information you provide we scope the form of the work and result needed (and your deadlines). We offer you a quotation for the entire package.
Depending on your needs, we may source external experts for this assignment, as this step should be done carefully.
Once we know the parameters for your course, we offer you 2-3 scenarios and accompanying price indications. We may also include an envisioning workshop.
We work with a one day initial setup to establish the unique parameters relevant for you and your institutional setting (including preparation, meeting with you, the actual calculations and reporting back).
The initial setup costs:
€800 (discounted package price) excl. VAT, excl. travel costs
€968 Incl. VAT 21% excl travel costs
Should we proceed with the design, the cost of the initial setup is discounted from the total cost for the work together.
The initial session results in a briefing and accompanying tailor-made quotation for the entire bespoke assignment required to achieve your desired outcome. There is the space to dialogue to discuss the next step.
In principle, we do not draft up proposals as we prefer to keep things as simple as possible using dialogue and quotations.
If you are part of a larger acquisition/consortium, we can collaborate to contribute to a proposal.
Why not book a session with us, to establish what these parameters are for your unique course, and together get a clear picture?
European funded program.
More information follows soon.
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We ran a re-design studio with a client until early spring 2024.
StudioBlended came alongside the course coordinator of the longest running short course for professionals at IHS/Erasmus University in its 105th edition. It went from being a 6 months course, to a 3 months and this year even a 5 weeks course for the first time. The problem of this client? Overload in the curriculum and schedule, it’s simply too much! Packed.
Result: The course gained in effectiveness and resilience well into the coming year(s). The course coordinator and lecturers are enabled to teach with clarity, doing less so that participants learn more.
Curious about our design studio? Have a look at the modules below or go directly to our re-design studio here.
“Along the way, Tikvah advised and equipped me how to simplify the course, by doing less actually, so that participants learn more – and it actually set free significant new budget.”
Charmae Pyl Wissink-Nercua (she/her)
Specialist in Urban Land, Housing Development and Capacity Building
Course Manager, Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
‘We approached you (StudioBlended) especially because next to that being a chance to bring some innovative approach to our proposal, I noticed that you have a background aligned with what is needed by the project: the project is focused on three main capacity building component to be implemented: on the job, through an on line/remote assistance, and through a number of “classic” modular courses to be implemented in person.
It is in particular for the secondo component that I was thinking to involve your studio and see how we can offer and design something different to be just available to answer questions on a social network.’
Head of Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering based at a consultancy firm, A.R.S. Progetti S.P.A., Planning and Engineering Department, for a consortium proposal for the a large worldwide donor, concerning capacity development of technical staff in municipalities in Mozambique. Rome, Italy.
Photo: The AmsterdamInstitute for Metropolitan Studies (AMS), and the workshop in the afternoon.
Curios? Feel free to contact our senior advisor and teacher trainer directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
We are here especially for you as unique course/training coordinator, to come alongside you and partner with you, as you work on a (architecture / urban / land / water / climate) curriculum, so that you can offer effective and resilient education in its simplest form.
Whatever your starting point, our Studio comes alongside you, and partners with you to ensure the following qualities and impact for your curriculum design. Have a look at our coherent and holistic design angles and our design studio to discover more about our approach.
What makes us unique is that we bridge silos between your (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water/ climate) content (research, projects), and the body of knowledge and practice of effective curriculum design.
However, we do not tell you what to teach. You don't start from scratch with us. We understand the field you are coming from, and keep an active interest in the fields we specialise in. We dare to ask you really good questions. We bring you cutting edge fresh ideas on possible angles you can take to your content. We take your pedagogical ideas, and amplify and deepen them for your (re)design.
Find our technical content and regional focus here.
We work as equal partners with our clients. Our agile approach, in between people and organisations, is especially suitable for coordinators who are also themselves in charge of a project budget, such as European-funded Programmes.
We also move lightly and organically between the academic world of research and academic staff, and the world of capacity development.
For more insights our our values see our manifesto.
Price
Our
Studio gives you the desired result and impact, with a package price for your
bespoke assignment.Simpler assignments
For simpler assignments (i.e. with a single coordinator) which require a quick output
we follow this simple initial setup:
1. 60 min onboarding (listening to your problem, to understand where you are stuck, what you’re trying to do). In person or via video call.
2. You complete and submit a one-page document with a more specific explanation of your issue
3. 60 minute advice virtual session giving you several alternatives
4. You choose one alternative
5. We formulate the quotation for the programme of work leading to a curriculum design.
This quick output costs:
€250 excl. VAT, excl. travel costs
€302 incl. VAT, excl. travel costs
The initial session results in a briefing and accompanying tailor-made quotation for the entire bespoke assignment required to achieve your desired outcome. The cost of this initial quotation will be discounted from the total cost of the assignment.
In principle, we do not draft up proposals as we prefer to keep things as simple as possible using dialogue and quotations.
More comprehensive asssignments - 2-3 scenarios
For more comprehensive assignments, depending on what you need we use the following set-up.
Based on the information you provide we scope the form of the work and result needed (and your deadlines). We offer you a quotation for the entire package.
Depending on your needs, we may source external experts for this assignment, as this step should be done carefully.
Once we know the parameters for your course, we offer you 2-3 scenarios and accompanying price indications. We may also include an envisioning workshop.
We work with a one day initial setup to establish the unique parameters relevant for you and your institutional setting (including preparation, meeting with you, the actual calculations and reporting back).
The initial setup costs:
€800 (discounted package price) excl. VAT, excl. travel costs
€968 Incl. VAT 21% excl travel costs
Should we proceed with the design, the cost of the initial setup is discounted from the total cost for the work together.
The initial session results in a briefing and accompanying tailor-made quotation for the entire bespoke assignment required to achieve your desired outcome. There is the space to dialogue to discuss the next step.
In principle, we do not draft up proposals as we prefer to keep things as simple as possible using dialogue and quotations.
If you are part of a larger acquisition/consortium, we can collaborate to contribute to a proposal.
Why not book a session with us, to establish what these parameters are for your unique course, and together get a clear picture?
Key projects
StudioBlended is currently partnering with an institute for capacity building within a European University, to co-create an impactful MOOC for this client (2025-June 2026). The MOOC is built into the Coursera learning management system.European funded program.
More information follows soon.
We ran a re-design studio with a client until early spring 2024.
StudioBlended came alongside the course coordinator of the longest running short course for professionals at IHS/Erasmus University in its 105th edition. It went from being a 6 months course, to a 3 months and this year even a 5 weeks course for the first time. The problem of this client? Overload in the curriculum and schedule, it’s simply too much! Packed.
Result: The course gained in effectiveness and resilience well into the coming year(s). The course coordinator and lecturers are enabled to teach with clarity, doing less so that participants learn more.
Curious about our design studio? Have a look at the modules below or go directly to our re-design studio here.
“Along the way, Tikvah advised and equipped me how to simplify the course, by doing less actually, so that participants learn more – and it actually set free significant new budget.”
Charmae Pyl Wissink-Nercua (she/her)
Specialist in Urban Land, Housing Development and Capacity Building
Course Manager, Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
‘We approached you (StudioBlended) especially because next to that being a chance to bring some innovative approach to our proposal, I noticed that you have a background aligned with what is needed by the project: the project is focused on three main capacity building component to be implemented: on the job, through an on line/remote assistance, and through a number of “classic” modular courses to be implemented in person.
It is in particular for the secondo component that I was thinking to involve your studio and see how we can offer and design something different to be just available to answer questions on a social network.’
Head of Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering based at a consultancy firm, A.R.S. Progetti S.P.A., Planning and Engineering Department, for a consortium proposal for the a large worldwide donor, concerning capacity development of technical staff in municipalities in Mozambique. Rome, Italy.
Photo: The AmsterdamInstitute for Metropolitan Studies (AMS), and the workshop in the afternoon.
More advice we do
Have a look at our advisory services to coordinators of academic courses for more inspiration on what is possible.Curios? Feel free to contact our senior advisor and teacher trainer directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
We are here especially for you as unique course/training coordinator, to come alongside you and partner with you, as you work on a (architecture / urban / land / water / climate) curriculum, so that you can offer effective and resilient education in its simplest form.
StudioBlended Foundation 2025
Prefer to have direct contact?
Feel free:
Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
Independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, lead
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
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StudioBlended Foundation
Prefer to have direct contact?
Feel free:
Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
Independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, lead
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
Non Profit Foundation
Registration Chamber of Commerce
KvK-number 86242598 (Dutch)
VAT identification number
NL 86 39 07 29 5 B01
Bankaccount
NL40 INGB 0709 6156 04
SWIFT/BIC: INGBNL2A
StudioBlended Foundation
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We are here especially for you as unique course/training coordinator, to come alongside you and partner with you, as you work on a (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water / climate) curriculum, so that you can offer effective and resilient education in its simplest form.