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Create your Future

  • Starts February and September
  • English
  • 30 ECTS
  • 5 months
Eindhoven
Does focusing on skills like problem solving and creativity sound good to you? Do you want to broaden your cultural horizons and shape your future? Ready to be inspired and find your direction? If this sounds like you, then the Fontys minor Create Your Future is perfect for you!

About this minor

Join the minor Create Your Future to shape your career and personal development. You’ll learn how to make smart choices about internships and jobs. How to develop skills in career planning, mental health, intercultural awareness and more. You’ll work on assignments both alone and in groups, creating a portfolio that shows your development. Get ready to make a positive contribution to society and shape your future towards fulfilment!

Why the minor Create your Future?

  • An international lecture room in a friendly and safe community;
  • A portfolio assessment to track your personal and professional development;
  • Committed and inspiring teachers;
  • Focus on you as an individual through personal coaching.
 

More about the minor

Join a class of 20 where everyone learns from each other in a safe place. Work together on projects that contribute to people's happiness, such as the Happy Phone Booth. Improve your skills and grow as a future professional.

  • Understand and articulate your values, experiences, strengths, and growth areas;
  • Recognize and navigate opportunities in various contexts to optimise growth;
  • Create a future-focused vision, using self-awareness and opportunities to form adaptive development plans;
  • Contribute to personal and societal growth through proactive participation.
 

 

 

 

Programme

Start building your future with Create Your Future, an international minor to shape your career. Learn to lead, learn about businesses, and use what you know in new ways. Get ready for big decisions about jobs and learn how to deal with challenges. Plus, meet people from around the world and grow your skills for work and life. 
Check out our minor courses, designed for your growth:

Career Design: Learn how to use your skills and positive thinking to help others and keep up with career changes.
Mental Health and Happiness: Understand how to pursue happiness through reading and activities that teach you about your feelings and choices.
Bold as Love: Learn how to make contact with, and be kind to yourself and others, and build strong relationships.
Intercultural Awareness: Get better at understanding and talking to people from different cultures.
The World and You: Do hands-on projects, learn about social issues, and work with experts.
Human Technology Interaction: Find out how technology can affect your job and think about how to use it in the future.

All courses are designed to help you grow personally and professionally. Think about how you act and what you're good at, then use what you learn to plan your future.
The minor lasts 20 weeks (including the assessments). Classes are scheduled most of the times four days per week (20-25 hours a week). The remaining day is intended for consultation with fellow students and self-study at your own pace.
The minor is divided in part 1 (10 weeks) and part 2 (10 weeks). During both parts you attend the same courses. These courses are taught every week during meeting of 1,5 – 4 hours. Some courses are taught to all students together and some courses are taught to half of the students of the minor program. 
Testing in Create Your Future occurs by portfolio-assessments. Aim of the portfolio assessment is to track your personal and professional development, to provide evidence of your development on the learning themes and to take ownership in your own learning process.

After the first term you take part in a 'Mid term show and grow moment’ and after the second term you take part in the 'Final assessment'. In the Mid term show and grow moment you receive information about your learning progress and result for further development in the second term. There is only feedback and feed-forward. You are in the lead of creating your portfolio and presentation!

In your portfolio and your presentation you demonstrate that you can reflect on your own behavior, integrate content from the classes and have a dialogue about your personal and professional development with the Board of the Future.
A classroom with students from all over the world
Our program welcomes 20 students to learn together in a friendly, safe community.

Contribute to happiness in society
Join projects such as 'Free Hugs' and 'Compliment Box' to spread happiness.

Work together
Team up with other students, teachers and experts for hands-on learning.

Personal coaching
When studying gets tough, our study counsellor is here to help.

Portfolio assessment
Our courses help you grow, with opportunities to show how much you've learned.

Dedicated and inspiring teachers
Our caring teachers will guide and challenge you.
 

 

For who?

The program 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:

  • Be eager, curious and open to learn new talent skills
  • Care and practice kindness: ‘you are ok, I am ok’
  • Dare and practice leadership: ‘courage over comfort’
  • Be committed and present
  • 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 for this minor


The application for minors that start in February 2025 goes from July 1st 2024 until December 15 2024.

To attend a minor you have to

  • Have passed the propaedeutic phase or;
  • Have permission from the examination board of your study programme

Applications should always be submitted via the International Exchange (or Erasmus) Officer at the home university. If several versions of the program are offered, please indicate for which version you would like to apply to (Program I, Program II, Program 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. 

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 recognized 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 recognized and transferred into the records kept by your home university. 

Contact for exchange students: Ms. Jarjolein Nispeling. Tel.  +31(0)8850 89216, E-mail: hrmandpinternational@fontys.nl 

 
 

Agenda

Register here for one of our activities. This way you can be sure whether this is the minor for you! We hope to see you soon!

There are currently no activities planned for this study programme. Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Practical information

This course will be taught in English.

 

Contact

Eindhoven

Witte dame
Emmasingel 28
createyourfuture@fontys.nl
Minor coördinator: Ellen van Straalen
createyourfuture@fontys.nl