In my opinion one of the most important lectures on education in 2014.
Hans Henrik Knoop is Associate Professor of educational psychology, Director of the Positive Psychology Research Unit at the Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Extraordinary Professor, North West University, South Africa. His work is focused on learning and creativity in education and professional work, having involved more than 15.000 pupils and 2.500 teachers.
For more than a decade Hans Henrik Knoop has been involved in research cooperation with colleagues at Harvard University, Stanford University and at Claremont Graduate University in the GoodWork Project and as researcher he has participated in development projects for LEGO (1998-2004), Danfoss Universe (2005-2010), SIS Academy (2004-2008) and Royal Greenland Academy (2006), among others. In 2006-2007 he contributed to the Danish DR2's programs on talent development in schools, and he was the scholarly anchor of the Danish TV2's reality documentary series "Plan B" (2006-2007) and "SKOLEN -- verdensklasse p 100 dage" [The School -- World-Class in 100 Days] (2008) concerning efficient education. "Plan B" received international attention in being nominated for the prestigious television award Golden Rose of Montreux in 2007. From 2007-2010 he was Research Director at the Universe Research Lab in Denmark.
As academic expert he has contributed to Danish governmental committees on cross-curricular competencies and wellbeing (2000-2001, 2009, 2014), pedagogical appliance of IT (2002-2003), pedagogical planning (2004-2005), talent development (2005), the Government's Committee on School Initiation (2005-2006) and the Danish Evaluation Institute's project concerning teaching environment in primary and secondary school (2006).
Hans Henrik Knoop is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) (2009-2015) and current President of the European Network for Positive Psychology (2010-2014). In collaboration with colleagues at Aarhus University he was responsible for hosting the 5th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Copenhagen in 2010.
He has carried out research based consultancy for a large number of institutions and municipalities in Denmark (1994-) and internationally he has been involved in major EU-financed development projects in Latvia (1993-1999) and Lithuania (1995-1998) as well as contributing to evaluation of development projects for EU (1997-1998).
Hans Henrik Knoop is a requested speaker, who has presented his work through more than 900 invited keynotes and lectures in Denmark and at conferences in many countries including Australia, Austria, Croatia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Slovenia, Spain, The Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S.
He has authored and co-authored more than 160 publications including 8 books.
