Since 2008, Aalborg Centre for PBL in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO, hereafter Aalborg UNESCO Centre (co)organising the International Research Symposium on PBL (IRSPBL). The overall goal of IRSPBL is to support the development of a professional community around PBL research and practice in engineering and science education. It is a meeting point for practitioners, researchers, and broad community to share knowledge and experiences, create synergies, build bridges across countries, initiate research and innovation collaborations, and take an active role in educating engineers and scientists so they can participate and contribute to present social, economic, and environmental challenges (e.g., sustainability, employability, digitalisation, among others) through the development of sustainable solutions to the present and emerging social, economic, and environmental challenges.

Since 2008, IRSPBL has been organised every two years in collaboration with international partners, being hosted in almost every continent, namely:

1. IRSPBL 2008 hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark
2. IRSPBL 2009 hosted by Victoria University, Australia
3. IRSPBL 2011 hosted by Coventry University, UK
4. IRSPBL 2013 hosted by UTM, Malaysia
5. IRSPBL 2015 hosted by Mondragon University, Spain
6. IRSPBL 2017 hosted by Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
7. IRSPBL 2018 hosted by Tsinghua University, China
8. IRSPBL 2021 hosted by Aalborg University, Denmark
9. IRSPBL 2023 hosted by MIT and Harvard, USA
10. IRSPBL 2025 organised by consortium of South African University, South Africa

Since its inception, IRSPBL has welcomed more than 550 contributions addressing several relevant topics related with PBL research and practice, namely student learning and engagement, assessment, learning outcomes, curriculum development and management of change, course design, PBL models, employability, university-industry collaboration, sustainability, digitalisation, and professional development. International advisory and scientific committees support IRSPBL contributing to its research quality and relevance.

Each IRSPBL edition results in an open access e-book compiling authors contributions, and since 2019 the IRPBL proceedings are indexed in SCOPUS and are published under the Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020. More information about the IRSPBL events can be found at ucpbl.net/research-symposium/

Series main editor

Prof. Xiangyun Du, director of Aalborg Centre for PBL on Engineering Science and Sustainability, under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark

Series (co-editors)

Prof. Anette Kolmos (Founding director, Aalborg Centre for PBL on Engineering Science and Sustainability, under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark)

Dr Aida Guerra (Vice-director, Aalborg Centre for PBL on Engineering Science and Sustainability, under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark)

Prof. Euan Lindsay (Vice-director, Aalborg Centre for PBL on Engineering Science and Sustainability, under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark)

Dr Lelanie Smith (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Dr Rea Levi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Dr Qiao Weifeng (Tsinghua University, China)

Prof. Wang Sunyu (Tsinghua University, China)

Prof. Ismael Peña Reyes (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)

Dr Fernando José Rodriguez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)

Dr Nestor A. Arexolaleiba (Mondragon University, Spain)

Prof. Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof (UTM, Malaysia)

Dr. Din Arsat (UTM, Malaysia)

Dr. Mohamad Termizi Bin Borhan (UPSI, Malaysia)