Change Making Healthy Future
Do you want to work on real-life issues related to health and care? Do you want to set societal change in motion? Join the innovative programme "Change Making Healthy Future". During this course, students and professionals initiate, co-create, and evaluate innovative transition experiments in the topic of Health.
The interdisciplinary course "Change Making: Co-creating a Healthy Future" has a mission to enable students to collaborate with societal partners to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be meaningful changemakers.
Experience an innovative learning environment
Evoke actual change on real-world issues
Learn with UvA students
Practical information
When: Februari 2026 – May 2026, lectures on on Wednesdays 15:00 -19:00 and Fridays 15:00-17:00
Where: Amsterdam, Roeterseilandcampus
For whom?
Professionals with an interest in addressing complex health and care related issues through designing and executing transition experiments in collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary students. No prior knowledge needed.
Content
To facilitate transitions towards a healthy future, (collective) action is necessary to disrupt established patterns and power structures. There is a strong need for changemakers who, in collaboration with other societal partners, can initiate, create, and evaluate responsible, relevant, and innovative transitions.
Students and societal partners collaborate intensively as co-learners on healthy future issues. By bringing together experts with different backgrounds and areas of expertise, co-learning can contribute to a deeper understanding of issues and the identification of new approaches for interventions. The transition cycle serves as the guiding method in unravelling and transforming complex health-related problems.
At the end of this course, changemakers will have carried out concrete projects that have a positive impact on societal transitions in the field of health and health care as well as personal growth.
Coordinator
Dr. T.J. (Tjerk Jan) Schuitmaker-Warnaar works as education developer at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. He recently received a Comenius grand for scaling up the Change Making educational programme. As assistant professor he works on sustainability transitions in health care, focusing on financial feasibility, environmental impact, and sustainable health.
Registration
This course is an elective for students and professionals, organised by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). Professionals can register as a contract student if you are interested in following one of our IIS electives. By contract students, we mean all those who are not registered at an educational institution. Registration opens the 1st of December and closes 2 weeks before the course starts.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl
Change Making Healthy Future is part of the national pilot Microcredentials which means you can obtain a digital certificate in the form of a microcredential after you successfully completed one of these courses. This recognized credential gives value to individual education units, by guaranteeing the quality of the course, and therefore allows professionals to demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills to (future) employers or other educational institutions.