Our main goals for 2022-2025

What does this mean? The mission, core values and vision with transition experts express the attitude, motivation and culture of Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences. The next step describes our strategic agenda, with guiding statements about the choices we are making in the most important areas. By first defining a number of main goals, we bring focus to our strategy. The main goals build a bridge between mission, core values and vision on the one hand and the strategic choices on the other. We are now ready to choose four coherent main goals for Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences and to translate these into strategy.

1. The four transitions are leading for our strategic choices until 2025. We want to make a significant difference and that is also the criterion by which we judge what we do and whether we are on the right track. We leave that judgment to others. They should recognise us as an organisation with impact on the transitions: big ambitions, a solid plan to realise those ambitions, and demonstrable results, delivered by convincing professionals.

2. We are developing ourselves and others into transition experts. A crucial skill for the future is being able to manage change. We are going to develop the HVHL approach to 2025 in such a way that we are transition experts ourselves, and that we give our students the baggage to have a decisive influence on the course of transitions in collaboration.

This requires broad substantive and economic knowledge, and a range of crucial professional competencies.

This enables us to make use of our scale: we are big enough to have the variety available, but at the same time, our scale offers the space to stay personal and to make contact.

3. We are joining forces across the university. We are organising ourselves optimally within the collegial and inclusive university that we are increasingly becoming. We optimise the synergy between groups, departments, locations and services. Education and research work together - there is no research without a link to education, and every programme contributes to our research agenda. We are developing shared ownership and we have the basics in place.

At the sites, knowledge is shared and developed, and at university level, we organise the services and knowledge development. This makes it easier for us to find each other and makes cooperation on transitions strong and tangible.

4. We are tightly connected regionally and internationally. We are developing alliances with regional, national and international partners who share our vision. This is how we exchange knowledge about sustainable transitions, build joint curricula and research, and learn together to increase impact in our regions and far beyond. Our knowledge and expertise become export products.