Global Project and Change Management

Bachelor of Sustainable Development and Innovations

Our four year programme in Global Project and Change Management (Sustainable Business and Innovations) is a Bachelor of Business Administration offered by Windesheim Honours College, the first professional college in the Netherlands.

Do you want to change the world in a positive way? Do you want to study Global Project and Change Management in the context of international development? Are human rights, global health, social responsibility, circular economy , global warming, sustainability and civil society themes that you care about? These and the other UN Global Sustainable Development goals are central in our programme. Do you want to contribute personally and professionally to a better world? Are you pro-active, motivated and do you have an entrepreneurial, business mindset? In our four-year NVAO accredited and selective English-taught programme you can learn how to make a difference in the world you live in. 

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Curriculum

Our curriculum combines theory and practice, project and change management, business and research with global challenges. The BBA programme consists of courses, real projects with companies right from the first year, an international internship and professional career counselling.
Each semester in this Bachelor of Sustainable Development you will work in a small group on a larger project with a real-life client. Your schedule and assignments will give you a study load of roughly 46 hours a week. We teach in an interactive style, expecting you to work together with a lecturer instead of only listening to a lecture.
In the end you will know how to lead a project team and how to put innovative ideas into practice. You will become a change maker, aware of your own strengths and ambitions and able to create sustainable value for society.

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Career prospects

Our college graduates are tomorrow's Project and Change managers. Our programme leads to a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Global Project and Change Management and enables you to make a difference in the world by leading international projects.

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Main Learning lines

This Bachelor of Sustainable Development has four learning lines: Business Skills, Research, Project and Change Management and Global Challenges. Each course has its own focus (see Figure).
Most of our students enjoy courses like Presentation and Pitching and Critical and Creative Thinking, in which they improve their business skills in creative way. Other students might struggle due to the intensity of our programme. Luckily, being the close community that we are you can always approach a lecturer, or ask a fellow student or your Career Counsellor for help.
The intensity of our programme necessitates us to select a maximum of 80 students per year.

Education on demand

Our education is on-demand and offers you a platform to grow professionally and work together with other professionals from different networks. The Value Creator is an innovative environment where we support and encourage our students to create their own learning path and give them space to come up with innovative, creative and valuable solutions. Enjoy the journey!

For example, last year a group of students worked together addressing UN Global Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and 11 (make cities inclusive, safe and sustainable) by participating in a challenge in Asturias, Spain. They looked into ways to improve the life of older people living in big cities; they did so by exploring the urban facilities available that could support them. In this journey they created a large network on their own and found numerous E-Health companies and other urban-related solutions. By connecting existing networks within Asturias province and giving their advice on how to collaborate they created value for the region, the elderly citizens and innovations in health care. 

First place!

Global Project and Change Management takes the first place in the Dutch rankings of similar degree programmes.

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Partnerships

Academic Impact

This is an initiative mandated by the United Nations General Assembly, UNAI aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing, through research and education, to the realization of the Organization’s goals and mandates. Some member institutions, for example, are engaged in ‘greening’ their campuses (using solar panels, conserving water, recycling etc.), hosting academic and scientific conferences on sustainability, doing outreach and/or promoting community and volunteer service to help the most vulnerable.
More information about our partnership can be found here.

SGD Nederland

SDG Nederland is a collective initiative of Stichting SDG Charter and OneWorld with Windesheim Honours College. Since the Sustainable Development Goals are integrated into our programme and our partnerships with the UN, we are also connected to the Dutch SDG collective.
More information about SDG Nederland 

UN Habitat

Windesheim Honours College is the 2nd Dutch University (after Delft) that is a partner of United Nations Habitat. Our collaboration consists of creating opportunities in projects for our students or collaboration in existing projects run by our students, network capacity, research and development, internship opportunities for our students, exchange opportunities and possibly guest lectures. 
More information about our collaboration can be found here.

Well-being Economy Alliance

The Well-being Economy Alliance is an International network of all international economic networks (circular economy, blue economy, sustainable economy, the commons) gathered in one alliance. Windesheim Honours College is partnered with the alliance on projects, guest lectures and discussing wicked challenges.
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First year student Yann from Luxembourg about his experiences

Mario from Germany about Global Project and Change Management