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Preface
“Making the difference with ambitious professionals in tomorrow’s world. We are happy to take on that challenge!"
JAN VAN IERSEL
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Chairman of the Executive Board
FOREWORD
This Institutional Plan, 'Growing as experts in transition', describes how Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences will enter the future. We are connecting our mission, core values and vision to the major challenges society faces today. We help our students optimise their development into the transition experts the world needs. To do this, we must also develop ourselves and remain continuously in transition as experts. After all, it is a challenge to combine the green and blue domain in a fruitful and profitable way with entrepreneurship, cooperation and personal development.
For the Executive Board, it is very encouraging to see how this ambitious story has emerged, in conversation with the entire university and its partners. This commitment is also evident in the desire to hold on to all the good things we are already doing, and in the great ambitions for what we want to do differently and better. You can read what inspires us here. This is Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences.
Even more than in the previous Institutional Plan, 'Green without borders', this Institutional Plan provides direction and space to make choices, determine priorities and jointly shape the HVHL approach to education, research and cooperation. We mean what we say. The proof is in the pudding we are preparing. We will use this Institutional Plan as a guideline for the policy plans for the years 2022-2025 and for the annual evaluations.
Thank you to the hundreds of students, colleagues, alumni, work field partners, participation council members, supervisors and managers who have contributed intensively in the past year! It was a turbulent year partly due to corona, so we are extra proud of how we were able to develop this Institutional Plan together.
This Institutional Plan is an invitation to everyone to continue working together and to contribute to the world of tomorrow - and the day after tomorrow.
The Executive Board, Jan van Iersel, Kitty Kwakman and Anneke Luijten
WE ARE PRO TRANSITION CORE VALUES
WE ARE ON THE FOREFRONT WE STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
MISSION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
VISION
The four transitions: - For climate adaptation and mitigation - For a sustainable chain - For sustainable water management - For a sustainable living environment
The HVHL approach: - Substantive skills - Social skills - Economic skills - Personal skills
KEY POINTS