How is interdisciplinary education beneficial to students, lecturers and the organisation itself? 

Students:

• Exploring the interfaces of different disciplines encourages students to work together and share expertise with each other and with lecturers.
• It provides an opportunity to reveal the synergies between different methods of research and analysis.
• It enables students to tackle difficult challenges by coming at problems from different angles.
• Academics with a broad background provide added value to the labour market. Employers often look for staff who can combine a specialist foundation with a broad understanding of their entire academic field.   
• An interdisciplinary education gives students the opportunity to discover where their interests lie.
• Interdisciplinary education teaches students to be critical and independent thinkers. 

Lecturers:

• Lecturers have the opportunity to work with colleagues from different disciplines. This encourages collaborations.
• Interdisciplinary education provides opportunities for personal and professional growth in teaching.  
• Interdisciplinary education offers a variety of pedagogical models, some with a high degree of collaboration, others with a lower degree of collaboration, but all providing the opportunity to learn from each other. 

The organisation:

• Interdisciplinary education brings different colleagues and departments together.
• It encourages a heterogeneous student body within a particular course or study programme, and leads to high levels of interaction.   
• The development of interdisciplinary education can lead to other types of innovation.
• There is a demand for these types of study programmes from students.