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Newsletter September 2024

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Dear Transition Maker,

Get ready for some exciting updates and can't-miss opportunities coming your way:

🎥 A new example of Transition Makers’ tools in practice in higher education is online now. Learn more about the Transition Cycle in the UvA elective Change Making

🆕 Four new tools were recently added to the Toolbox: Onboarding in Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Enabling Co-Creation, Participate as a Pro and Constructive Conversations

📅 Meet up with us during one of our IDG Summit Events, in Stockholm or Utrecht on 16-18 October

🎩 Calling all teachers or educational innovators! If you have innovative ideas for new tools and are affiliated with a Dutch higher education institution, we want to hear from you. We invite you to our final co-creation session in November and January. More details below.

In Practice: Change Making

Change Making is an action-oriented programme where students and professionals collaborate intensively as co-learners on societal issues. The UvA elective course guides students through the Transition Cycle using specific teaching formats to work on inner development and societal change.

Learn more

Join our LinkedIn community to become a member of the IDG Dutch Higher Education Hub and learn, innovate, practice and share the application of tools or share stories, recordings of lectures, event designs and presentations with other Transition Makers.

New tools to discover

Click on the icons below to browse four new additions to the Toolbox:

From left to right: Onboarding in Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Enabling Co-Creation, Participate as a Pro and Constructive Conversations.

IDG Summit Events

Meet up: the IDG Summit 2024 in Stockholm

On 16-18 October 2024

For those of you who will attend the IDG Summit in Stockholm: you can find us there and at the open arena on Friday, 18 October to mingle, integrate & co-create!

📍 Elements Stockholm, Jakobsbergsgatan 24 🕘 9:00 – 16:00 (9 AM - 4 PM), CET.

As a member of the Transition Makers community, we can share 15% off on In-Person Tickets with you. Use code IDG23 at checkout.

More details on the programme of the Summit can be found on the Inner Development Goals website.

IDG Summit Viewing Party in Utrecht On 16 October 2024 from 2-5 PM You are cordially invited to join us

for an afternoon of learning and inspiration with fellow Transition Makers. We will come together to watch the IDG Summit, exchange ideas and explore how different goals can inspire our collective future.

Buy your ticket here

Interested in co-creating? Are you an educational professional at a Dutch higher education institution, and would you like to add a new tool to the Toolbox? If you have a teaching or learning activity paired with an assessment method, related to societal transitions and one of the IDGs, that you would like to add to the Transition Makers Toolbox, this session is for you! It could be a tool that is new to you that you want to start using in your education practice, or a tool that you are already working with and would like to share in and/or further develop for the Transition Makers Toolbox.

The first co-creation session will take place on 14 November from 9 am to 1 pm. The follow-up session is on 16 January 2025 from 1 to 5 pm. Both sessions will be held on-site in Utrecht.

Please note, it is important to know the source of the tool and to have permission to share the tool in the Toolbox.

This guarantees a key characteristic of our Toolbox: the material we will share in the Toolbox is open source.

This means that the tools we end up sharing will be accessible for anyone to use, redistribute, and modify at no cost.

Apply to join the co-creation group in November & January

Meet the Transition Makers

Rosanne van Wieringen & Silke van Beekum “While focussing on closing the gap between science and society with transdisciplinary education, we are conducting evaluative education research on students’ experiences and skills gained during transdisciplinary education.

Onboarding in Transdisciplinary Collaboration is based on the need to facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration in the Bachelor’s programme in Computational Social Sciences. It aims to foster meaningful alignment by developing a Collaborative Blueprint.”

Get in touch with Rosanne & Silke

Get in touch with Guido

Guido de Wilde ”With my background in Communication Science and subsequent professional training, I am very committed to supporting students in developing 21st-century skills, such as cultural intelligence, reflection and leadership. I truly belief that nurturing intercultural awareness, promoting creative thinking, and embracing social innovation can empower communities to overcome barriers and achieve transformative change.

With Inclusive Decision-Making, I invite you to explore the art of inclusive consensus, where every contribution is a step towards a richer, more democratic dialogue.”

Do you have questions about the Transition Makers Toolbox? You can reach us at info@transitionmakers.nl. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

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