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Want to do something cool, fun and impactful?
Do you feel frustrated by the state of the world, but not sure what to do about it? Would you like to gain personal resilience, meet like-minded people, and build solutions with your head, heart, and hands? Would you like work experience in sustainability, but don’t know where to start?
If the answer is yes
the Bildung Climate School (BCS) is for you! You’ll come out with a sense of purpose, agency, community, and a toolkit of skills to work towards a more sustainable future.
BCS is the first inclusive Minor in the Netherlands that brings MBO (vocational), HBO (applied sciences) and university students together to work with real companies to address sustainability challenges in Rotterdam.
Why apply?
Our next BCS program: Full-time Minor (31 Aug-6 Nov 2026)
The Gap Year without a Gap Year
What if you could have the gap year experience, without the gap year?
The Bildung Climate School (BCS) is a unique, intensive, immersive, personal and community development experience, combining MBO, HBO, and university students and teachers. Here, you'll find your purpose, solve real-world problems, gain practical sustainability skills, take part in an internship with local companies to work on actual sustainability challenges, and earn 15 ECTS.
What you will learn:
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You’ll learn about yourself and your place in this troubled world through accessible scientific knowledge, artistic and physical practices and real-word work experience and projects with Rotterdam-based companies
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You will analyze real-world sustainability challenges and present your findings to the world through a public show at the end of the program
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You’ll learn real sustainability skills like sustainable cooking and repairing and making clothes.
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You'll get to meet and work with students that you’d normally never come into contact with at school – students from vocational, HBO and university backgrounds from all kinds of study programs.
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How to apply
Do you want to apply for the Bildung Climate School minor? Read the following checklist for an overview of how and where to apply!
The Bildung Climate School is open to undergraduate students from Albeda MBO levels 3 and 4, Hogeschool InHolland, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. There are no program or background knowledge requirements.
We encourage students to apply who are passionate about tackling global environmental challenges, wanting to engage in personal development, and are open to build motivation, find purpose, and connect with a like-minded community.
For application, it is required that you are encouraged and committed to active engagement in the program. This includes being able to participate in 80% of the sessions.
If you are not from Albeda, InHolland or EUR but would still like to participate, you can apply, and we will put you on the waiting list. In case we have not filled all of our spots by the time the application period ends for our partner institutions, we will let you know.
Signing up for the minor differs per student group
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Sign up by sending an email to Arjen van Tol (arjen.vantol@inholland.nl)
Apply via eduID/eduXchange
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create an eduID via the eduID platform.
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apply through the eduXchange platform.
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confirm your (course) enrollment through OSIRIS / your school's student system.
Make sure to have the following items ready for a smooth application.
BCS Application checklist:
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Have your agenda ready – for the 2025-26 edition, check if you are able to attend at least 80% of the sessions in this program.
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Formulate in 350-500 words why you would like to join the Bildung Climate School.
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Describe your experience with sustainability projects or personal development programs in max. 200 words – experience is not necessary, but it allows us to check if this is the right program for you.
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The Bildung Climate School team will carefully evaluate your application to make sure you are the right fit for this program. We do this to ensure the creation of an inspiring and passionate group of students to kick off our program!
We will also conduct interviews with the applicants, to better get to know you.
Dates of the sessions
Minor (upcoming program):
First semester 2026/2027
August 31st until November 6 2026
Pilot (running now):
applications closed
Tuesdays & Wednesdays: 15:00-17:00 (7 April – 7 July)
With exception of April 27 and May 10 due to May holidays.
Summer school: (for educators)
DRIFT Summer school education for social change - June 22, 2026 – June 25, 2026
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TESTIMONIALS
Student Voices
The BCS has already graduated 46 students from MBO, HBO and university. You can hear some of their reactions to their BCS experience.
Casper Struik
ALUMNI
You realize that the climate and the issues at hand, like global warming, pollution, and all the reasons behind it, it's not going to be taken down or tackled or changed through just laws and legislations. Those are needed. But you also need to reach people. People need to want this to happen. And that's done through communication and art and expression. So there needs to be a combination of both, or else we're just going to be fighting different fights.
Noah Bergfeld
ALUMNI
When Ginie gave us all of the data about the world and what's happening and what are the actual numbers of things, I was like, wow, I never heard this before. Like I never saw this before. Only on Instagram posts and people say, oh, the world's going to end. But then you just scroll and it's life again. It made a huge impact on me. Like it was eye opening. I don't think I can go back to a version of myself that was before Bildung even.
Caroline Carlier
ALUMNI
For me, the whole thing of having people from different educational backgrounds was just way better than having everyone from the same educational background. Because I felt like everyone just complemented the idea. Even though sometimes, not everyone had the same language to communicate. I feel like it's all complemented in the sense that, artistic persons [collaborate] with more university-based education persons. I really felt like we complemented each other. And I think that's the perfect way to make a very nice collaborative project.
Abu Kamara
ALUMNI
I think for me, it [embodied learning through boxing] actually helped in controlling the emotions, because the information, when you think about it, you see okay these people are deliberately doing [unsustainable things] this just to make profit. You get very angry and if you keep that anger inside that's in my opinion really unhealthy.
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