Create Your Future (Eindhoven)
About the exchange programme
The international programme of Create Your Future stimulates the development of a personal and professional vision, attitude and set of behaviors to be able to relate to the emerging future and to deal with change. Self-reflection, an open attitude to new ideas and seeing mistakes as learning opportunities are key in the minor Create Your Future. It helps you thinking about yourself, your future, shaping your future and expend your cultural horizon.
Why this programme?
- Gain essential skills like creativity and teamwork, preparing you for a dynamic future.
- Develop through self-reflection and openness to new ideas, setting you up for success.
- Enhance your self-awareness and cultural insight, shaping your career and personal journey.
More about Your Future Work
The world and the labor market are changing rapidly due to many developments. That is why we can better focus on teaching important skills than rapidly aging factual and procedural knowledge that is now easily accessible to everyone through various media. However, this tsunami of information must be critically examined in order to subsequently assess whether it is, among other things, reliable and useful.
21st century skills include problem-solving, creativity and inventiveness and cooperation. These are skills that can be used in various domains and are therefore valuable for the student. We respond to this with the minor Your Future Work.
Since you already have a foundation of knowledge gained during your major, we will now proceed with skills and attitudes. Subsequently, you can use these enhanced skills and acquired knowledge in their own domain. It already stimulated and inspired many students to find the direction of their future.
Admission requirements
The programme is available for international students and professionals, as well as Dutch students, who find it interesting to study in an international and intercultural environment.
We expect you to:
- Work hard and play hard
- Be eager to learn new talent skills
- Care and practice kindness: ‘you are ok, I am ok’
- Dare and practice leadership: ‘courage over comfort’
- Be committed
- Ask for what you need or where want to know more about
- Have a good command of the English language, equal to IELTS 6.0/TOEFL Internet 80
How to apply as an exchange student
Applications should always be submitted via the International Exchange (or Erasmus) Officer at the home university. If several versions of the programme are offered, please indicate for which version you would like to apply to (Programme I, Programme II, Programme III, etc.) This officer will send your application request (nomination) to Fontys. Once Fontys has accepted the application, your Fontys study department will send you a link to a web application called Mobility Online.
Deadline for application
Fall semester: 15 May
Spring semester: 15 November
Note: Not all exchange programmes are available every semester. To find out when this programme is offered, please check its specific details.
How will your course programme be recognised by your home university?
Fontys will provide you with a so-called ‘Transcript of Records’, which will clarify the results that you have achieved. Depending on your results, you will receive a maximum of 30 ECTS credits. ECTS credits are recognised throughout Europe. The agreement between your home university and Fontys University of Applied Sciences will usually include a condition whereby the credits that you obtain will be recognised and transferred into the records kept by your home university.
Practical information
- Start moment(s)
- September, February
- Location
- Eindhoven
- ECTs
- 30
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 1 semester (21 weeks)
- Contact hours
- 20-25 hours per week
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