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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 individual and in groups, creating a portfolio that shows your development. Get ready to make a positive contribution to society and shape your future towards fulfillment!

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;
  • Personal attention for you as an individual.
 

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.
 

Minor Create your Future

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Program

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
Design a future-proof career that fits who you are. In Career Design, you explore your talents, values and motivations using positive psychology, multidisciplinary theories, vitality, happiness at work and ikigai. You practice coaching skills, reflect on global career perspectives and learn how to navigate change with confidence.

Mental Health and Happiness
Build a strong foundation for well-being and personal growth. Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this course helps you understand what truly matters to you. You learn practical tools such as mindfulness, acceptance and values-based action to deal with stress and make meaningful choices.

Bold as Love / Authentic relationships
Develop emotional awareness and authentic relationships. Bold as Love focuses on
empathy, (self-)compassion, attachment and dealing with conflict. Through reflection and practice, you strengthen your communication skills and learn how to connect with others in a courageous and compassionate way.

Intercultural Awareness
Learn to work and communicate effectively in a diverse, international world. In Intercultural
Awareness, you explore cultural theories, exchange perspectives with international peers and work on a group project around intercultural challenges. You develop cultural sensitivity and practical intercultural skills.

The World and You
Turn personal values into social impact. In The World and You, you work on hands-on projects around real-world social issues. You collaborate with experts and organizations, visit inspiring initiatives and create a project connected to a cause you care about.

Human Technology Interaction
Explore the human side of technology and the future of work. This course examines how technology affects ethics, communication, privacy and work. You develop a personal vision on technology and co-create a future-oriented solution for responsible, human-centred use of technology.

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 three days per week (10-15 hours a week). The remaining day(s) is/are intended for collaboration with fellow students and self-study.
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 1–2 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 30 students to learn together in a friendly, safe community.

Contribute to happiness in society
Join projects such as 'Free Hugs' and 'Compliment Box' and make a positive impact on society.

Co-creation
Our program creates inspirational learning moments together with your fellow students, teachers and experts who will co-create in-depth in their field of expertise.

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

Sign up for a minor starting in September from February 1 until July 1 at the latest.

Sign up for a minor starting in February from July 1 until December 15 at the latest.

Please note

  • Not every minor starts in February and in September. You can find the start dates at the top of the minor's page.
  • To take part in the minor, you must have obtained your propaedeutic diploma or have permission from the examination board of your 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. Marjolein 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. Would you still like to visit or do you have a question? Please contact us.

Practical information

This course will be taught in English.

A minor regulation informs you about what you will learn, how the assessment is structured, and when you have completed the minor. As a student, you can derive rights from the minor regulation.

Go to minor regulations ('25-'26) Go to minor regulations ('26-'27)

 

Contact

Eindhoven

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