Welcome to the Changemaker Minor Program!

A warm welcome to the students of Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Applied Sciences Windesheim, Zuyd Hogeschool, and HAS University of Applied Sciences! We’re excited to have you join the Changemaker Minor Program — a learning journey designed to help you turn your ideas into meaningful action. Throughout this program, you’ll explore what it means to be a changemaker, develop practical skills to understand and address real-world challenges, and learn how to create solutions that can make a positive difference in your community and beyond. This is a private course created especially for your Changemaker Minor journey, so come with curiosity, an open mind, and a willingness to collaborate, learn, and take action. Your changemaker journey starts here!

Course curriculum

  1. 01

    • YOUTHTOPIA Changemaker Minor Program

    • Programme Summary
  2. 02

    • Guest Lecture #1: "Confidence + Change" Matthew Shribman

    • What is change?

    • Activity - The Change Mind Map

    • Circles of Change

    • Assignment - Your Definition of a Changemaker

    • Assignment - 5 People YES / NO

    • How to Make Change Happen?

    • The Confidence to Make Change Happen

    • Submit - All Week 1 Activities & Assignments
  3. 03

    • Open Classroom + Class led by Melati, discuss assignment 1

    • What are the Frameworks?

    • Watch Video on Human Rights

    • COP Conferences Quiz!

    • The 17 SDG’s

    • Assignment - Question Box: Which SDG?

    • Nature Should Have Rights

    • Assignment - Questions for Jessica Den Outer

    • Submit - All Week 2 Activities & Assignments
  4. 04

    • Guest Lecture #2 "Rights of Nature" Jessica Den Outer

    • Assignment - AI generated image of Dystopian

    • Activity - 5 WHY's

    • Assignment - Group or Individual Status

    • Submit - All Week 3 Activities & Assignments
  5. 05

    • Guest Lecture #3 Different Styles of Changemaking

    • Assignment - 3 examples, 3 minutes

    • Business As A Force For Good

    • Worksheet 2: Your Dream Collaboration

    • Submit - All Week 4 Activities & Assignments
  6. 06

    • Assignment - My Ikigai

    • Submit - All Week 5 Activities & Assignments
  7. 07

    • Open Classroom

    • Burnout

    • The Boredom

    • Guided Meditation

    • What We Can Learn From Nature
  8. 08

    • Open Classroom

    • Apple | Mother Nature

    • Don't Choose Extinction - UNDP

    • Activity - 3 Reframes

    • Submit - All Week 7 Activities & Assignments
  9. 09

    • Guest Lecture #4: How to Keep Going

    • Public speaking: what is it?

    • Challenges and why it's normal to feel that way

    • Want to watch the rest of the episodes of MC Public Speaking?

  10. 10

    • Open Classroom, Local Field Trip & Volunteer week (Experience Change)

    • Time Management

    • My Solarpunk World

    • Assignment - SMART Goals Planner

    • Activity - Measuring Change

    • Submit - All Week 9 Activities & Assignments
  11. 11

    • Open Classroom
  12. 12

    • Class Led by Melati

    • 24 Traits of Genius
  13. 13

    • Guest lecture #5 & Second Project Proposal

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