Minor Social Innovation

Do you feel anxiety about increasing global societal issues such as inequalities in health and education? Or does climate change or loss of biodiversity speak to you? In this minor, we challenge you to collaborate with active change makers to make change happen now.

Do these diverse issues, visualised in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 among other things, speak to your heart? Are you open-minded to and hopeful that we as humanity can address these global challenges? Do you want to make a creative contribution to change right now? Then this minor is perfect for you.

This minor will enable you to learn how to bring change to your own field of interest. You can bring your own dream project addressing the societal challenges that you always wanted to work on. Or you can check in with others to increase your shared strengths to contribute to change.

In this minor you will focus on creatively co-creating value-based alternatives for deep societal change. For example, you will work on changing the local food system, addressing the dependence on global suppliers such as the traditional supermarkets. Together with multiple stakeholders such as active citizens, local farmers, local vendors, social entrepreneurs and financers, and civil servants of the local government and the regional Water board, you will explore the possibilities for redesigning the local food ecosystem with the aim to regenerate the soil, improve the value of the food, and strengthen the resilience of the community in a real-life project.