Worldwide, it is stressed that we need to continue learning, our lifelong. This minor offers an interdisciplinary set of courses about lifelong learning. Students gain insights from multiple scientific perspectives and learn to apply them in real world settings, thereby developing collaborative, design and consultancy skills.

Study programme

Importance of the interdisciplinary orientation

People need to continue learning to be able to adapt to the rapid changes in today’s societies and economies. Fostering and supporting lifelong learning involves personal, organizational, societal and economic aspects. Understanding these different aspects and their complex interplay requires a diverse array of disciplinary approaches and theories. The multidisciplinary character of the minor will present students with approaches they will not encounter while enrolled in a monodisciplinary program and, as such, will challenge them to think across disciplinary borders and ideas.

The minor is formed around a nucleus of lecturers from psychology, economics and educational sciences, with guest lectures from other disciplines.

Students strengthen learning culture within organisations

The project course “Learning and innovating in organisations” is considered the backbone of the minor. In this course students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds work together in consultancy teams of a ‘pop-up’ consultancy firm on real questions from profit and non-profit organisations in the Amsterdam region.

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Entry requirements

You can apply for this minor if you are a Bachelor’s student and have obtained at least 60 ECTS from university-level courses or if you have finished the first two years of your HBO degree programme (120 ECTS, Dutch higher vocational education) at the time of application.

When applying, please submit:

• a signed and stamped extract of your study results (for non-UvA students).

Application and Admission

The registration period for a minor in the academic year 2025 – 2026 is 1 April to 13 May 2025.

A limited number of 50 places are available for this minor.  If there are more applications than available places, a draw will determine your placement. The timing of your application within the specified registration period will not affect your chances of being placed. 

Contact

Mail your questions to the minor coordinator Joost Jansen in de Wal, j.jansenindewal@uva.nl.

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