Unleash your personal & career development

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!

21stcentury skills include problem-solving, creativity and inventiveness and cooperation. These are skills that can be used in various domains and are therefore valuable for your future, to create your future.

This international program stimulates the development of a personal and professional vision, attitude and set of behaviors to be able to relate to this emerging future and deal with change. Self-reflection, an open attitude to new ideas and seeing mistakes as learning opportunities are key in this minor. It helps you thinking about yourself, shaping your future and expend your cultural horizon.

‘This minor helped me discover a lot more about myself and accept myself how I am. I explored my potential and learned so much about the world and other people. I now have a clearer picture where I am standing and what I’d like to do in the future based on my values.’

What we offer you:

A Classroom with student from all over the world
Our program welcomes 30 students to learn together in a friendly, safe community.

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

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

Attention for you as an individual
During the minor there is room for you as an individual: your personal journey towards your future career.

Portfolio assessment
Our courses help you grouw, with opportunities to show how much you’ve learned in a portfolio. Aim is to track your personal and professional development, provide evidence of your development and take ownership in your own learning process.

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

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

‘If you are looking for a life changing experience, where you get supported en guided and finding out more about yourself and your future path / career, this is exactly what you need. Teachers are very kind and give you space to grow and express yourself ‘

 

Since you already have a foundation of knowledge gained during your major, we will proceed with skills and attitude. Subsequently, you can use these enhanced skills and acquired knowledge in your domain. It already stimulated and inspired many students to find the direction of their future.

‘I totally learned more about myself and my future career concerning what I want to achieve or where I see myself. Also, it helped me to see the importance of how different cultures interact together in different situations.’

This results in the following themes and learning outcomes, which are key in all courses of the minor and testing.

Self awareness
You understand, reflect upon and articulate personal values, experiences, strengths and areas for development

Opportunity awareness
You recognize and navigate opportunities within diverse contexts, optimizing personal and professional growth.

Decision making 
You construct a future-focused personal and professional vision, integrating self-awareness and opportunity insights to formulate adaptive development plans.

Contribution to society 
You actively contribute to individual and societal growth and show proactive participation

Our courses:

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 hrough reading and activities that teach you about your feelings and choices.

Bold as Love: Learn how to make contact with en be kind for 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 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 to learn new talent skills to shape your future career
• 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

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.

The specific timetable for the minor will be announced approximately three weeks before the start of the minor at the latest.

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.

Location: Fontys HRMenP, building De Witte Dame

Emmasingel 28, Eindhoven

 Contact information
The minor is under the responsibility of Fontys HRM and Applied Psychology.
Got a question? Connect directly with Ellen van Straalen, minor coördinator: createyourfuture@fontys.nl and the website.

 Academic dates study semesters

* Fall semester: September - February
* Spring semester: February - July

Deadline for application Spring semester

* Spring semester: November 15th

* Fall semester: May 15th

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 program 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. Added to the link you will receive all necessary information and a manual.

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

How to apply as a Dutch student

Dutch students from other universities then Fontys, apply for this minor via https://www.kiesopmaat.nl. 

How to apply as a Fontys student 

You have to register yourself for the minor in Progress.

This international program is also available for students taking part in a bachelor program in the Netherlands, as part of their studies (minor). If you are studying at Fontys School of HRM and Psychology, please sign in at our own portal .