Value Creators (VC) is an innovative educational concept embedded in the programme Global Project and Change Management (BBA). For students outside of our programme, Value Creators is offered as a minor. The VC semester is a learning environment to experience change agency in the context of urgency, uncertainty and complexity addressing complex questions related to the SDG Agenda. This semester is unique because questions are more important than the answers and the learning focus is in the journey, not in the end result. We do not offer lessons, but support students with some professional workshops. From knowledge as goal to knowledge as a tool. Students are encouraged to find the knowledge they need in different ways outside the walls of university. Starting with a complex question, and guided by our 4E-Model (Explore, Engage, Elaborate and Evaluate), students start collaboration processes with different networks, seeking transdisciplinary co-creation that helps them to sense the emergence narratives of the complex system and see where actions can be taken. Value Creators is a place to imagine together and to define personal and professional change agency. It is not about solutions, it is about soulutions that can help us transform our models of thinking and challenge existing paradigms. We believe that complex social systems challenges require social systems solutions, and Value Creators is the place to learn how to visualise the whole system and operate from the whole. We have design an educational environment for emergence of scenarios to address the Sustainable Development Goals.

Maria Garcia Alvarez
Value Creators Coordinator and Project Leader Innovation Team
Global Project and Change Management,  Windesheim University of Applied Science



Dr. Lineke Stobbe
Director Global Project and Change Management- Windesheim Honours College
Global Project and Change Management,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences



Sander Leusenkamp
Value Creators Innovation Team and Coach
Global Project and Change Management,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences



Aryanti Radyo Wijati
Value Creators Innovation Team and Coach
Global Project and Change Management,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences



Deanne Boisvert
Value Creators Innovation Team and Coach
Global Project and Change Management,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences



Dr. Liesbeth Rijsdijk
Value Creators Innovation Team
Professor Networks in a Circular Economy,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences



Paul van der Cingel
Value Creators Innovation Team
Intrapreneur Learning Networks,  Windesheim University of Applied Sciences

We are so thankful to all of our Value Creators students who each year enrol and fully engage with this educational journey. Despite the uncertainty and the different educational approach, they let go to let in and they grow to create a better version of themselves and their futures, surprising us with the social value they create each semester. To all the networks that are open to collaborate and co-create with them, specially those who hold yearly an open door for our students and who have been so kind to recognise us as best practice: UN SDSN, UN Habitat, Earth Charter International, UNAI and WEAll, among others. Our recognition and thanks to our team at Global Project and Change Management, for feeding us with love, support and ideas to keep the Value Creators running.