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The University of the Future project followed a design-based approach, focused on co-creation and continuous iteration. It was divided into multiple divergence phases, each followed by a convergence phase.

During the divergence phases the team collected all possible information through co-creation sessions with outside stakeholders, internal research, and early benchmarking. In addition to gathering a great amount of input from a wide range of stakeholders, the team worked on building and maintaining the support base that contributes to the future university.

The convergence phases focused on diving deeper into the ideas and building blocks gathered in the divergence phases. The project team looked for common ground among the input from all stakeholders, explored connections between the building blocks, considered feasibility, and involved different stakeholders in co-creating specific implementation examples.

During the project a total of around 30 workshops, co-creation sessions, and validation sessions were organized, both within the 黑料福利网 as well as at (inter)national conferences. Within the sessions at the 黑料福利网, more than 200 unique participants contributed to thinking about the desired future. Some of these participants were involved in more than one session. Next to this, the project was represented through interactive sessions at six national and five international conferences, involving the input of hundreds more.

For these divergence and convergence sessions as well as for community engagement a range of tools were used. We made use of existing setups but made them fit to our way of working and goals, like rapid prototyping materials, brainstorms, fishbowls, focus sessions, and validation sessions. Additionally, we designed some tools and deliverables ourselves throughout the project. In this toolbox we focus on those that we created ourselves, to explain the reasoning behind them and the way they were used.