Table of contents

INSTITUTIONAL PLAN

Preface Table of contents Outlook on the future Introduction: Growing as experts in transition Mission Core values Vision: Experts in sustainability transitions

How the world will be a better place: the transitions

Developing transition experts: the HVHL approach

Our main goals for 2022-2025 Strategy: Giving direction and space

Strategy for Goal 1: contributing to four transitions

Strategy for Goal 2: Developing into transition experts

Strategy for Goal 3: joining forces across the University of Applied Sciences

Strategy for Goal 4: Connecting with our environment

Implementation: This is what the next step looks like Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences in key figures

3 5 7 8 10 11 12 12 13 14

15 15 18 20 22 24 27

STRATEGY

1. We will create a connection between education and transition. 2. We will focus on life-long learning in order to be able to permanently stimulate transitions. 3. Our research philosophy will embed relevance into the transitions. 4. Our locations will be Living Labs for sustainability innovations.

1. We will create a distinctive and transferable educational concept with a content-oriented profile for transition experts. 2. We will develop our social skills through multi-disciplinarity and inclusiveness, allowing us to look at ma ers from multiple perspectives. 3. Our students will develop basic entrepreneurial skills. 4. We will provide space for personal development following tailored development paths.

1. We will create stronger links between education and research. 2. We will standardise the working methods at both our locations where possible, and make sure our overall basis is solid. 3. We will strengthen the cooperation between OP (primary process) and OOP (services). 4. We will ensure an optimal combination of physical and digital contact. 5. We will train our teams to be excellent examples of transition experts.

1. We will strengthen our connection to the region through a limited number of close collaborations. 2. We are known to be one of the best green universities in Europe. 3. We will increase our recognisability. 4. We will intensify our collaborations with green higher education institutes and regional knowledge institutions.

OUTLOOK ON THE FUTURE

In 2022.. An interested havo student who is considering studying in Velp is surprised when she walks onto the estate. Aren't the lecture halls inside? Everyone walks around and discusses a question from an entrepreneur in the region who explains his problem next to a pond. She is immediately addressed by a third-year student, because all years work together. The young man thought she was a student here already!

The information specialist enters the media library tired, but satisfied. His second guest lecture went even better than the first! He was already accustomed to working with colleagues in education in subjects and research projects. But he found it quite exciting when asked to give lectures as well. But with coaching from an experienced teacher, it went really well.

In 2023.. A CEO at the annual conference of her company enthusiastically talks about what it was like to be entrepreneur in residence in Leeuwarden. She had been a bit surprised at first, because what was she doing there, as a management consultant? It turned out HVHL was serious about it, and before she knew it she was on the payroll. She had such a good time, especially with the interns she brought in! At the drinks after the conference, a man - who used to be a big critic - asks if he could maybe become her successor at HVHL.

The professor has a difficult choice to make: which student from her field can participate in the knowledge group? She'd give it to any of them. In the end, she chooses the young man who came up with such a clever business model, "how to make a good living with a green heart," because she is sure he can teach her a thing or two.

In 2024.. What strikes the veteran is how the atmosphere has changed in recent years. HVHL always had an involved and positive atmosphere, but lately something new has been added: stability. The clarity of the procedures and the focus on what is really important have provided a sense of security that has made trust a matter of course. Wonderful to experience.

The delegation from Bangladesh is warmly welcomed. The minister already met the project group last year at her ministry, but it is wonderful to now also see the estate where this innovative water purification system was conceived and tested. Impressive how an educational module that started so small is now the hub for collaboration of education, research and cooperation in five different countries!

In 2025.. The waiting list of partners contributing to the expertise centre 'Interprofessional collaboration' is really getting frighteningly long now. The solution is found in the student-run spin-off. The students have built a fully online platform to facilitate the expertise centre completely digitally.

The project group for the Institutional Plan 2026-2030 meets for the first time. Smiling, they leaf through the Institutional Plan 'Growing as experts in transition'. They see what great strides have been made, how alignment has created synergy and the transitions are truly leading for everyone. Who would have thought that the last years have led to this result? They look forward to taking the next step. Because the future is never finished.