Location
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
Length
20 weeks

Program Details

Compensation
Unpaid
Timeframe
Academic Year Fall Spring
Language
English
Weekly Hours
32

Pricing

Starting Price
5000
Price Details
The tuition fee can be also paid in installments upon agreement.
What's Included
Some Activities Visa Wifi
What's Not Included
Accommodation Airfare Meals SIM cards Transportation Travel Insurance
Oct 22, 2024
Nov 02, 2021
13 travelers are looking at this program

About Program

Start a 20-week journey that will redefine your career and life!

We believe that everyone has a role to play in creating a more sustainable and inclusive (digital) society. Through our work, we shape a global learning community of people and organizations ready to be change catalysts and provide them with the skills, tools, and resources needed to do so.

As a trainee, you will delve into the challenges that emerge in the current digital society. For 20 weeks, you will be working in the heart of Amsterdam. You'll work on a creative solution for one of our partners from the industry and learn how to work responsibly and sustainably by using design, technology, and social innovation. By the end of the program, you will be equipped with the tools needed to make a real impact and contribute to systemic transformation.

If you thrive in multidisciplinary, creative environments and you wish to advance your career to the next level, this is for you!

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Program Highlights

  • The focus of the projects is on sustainability
  • You will use design thinking to solve a real life challenge
  • You will learn to leverage transformative tech
  • We are based in the centre of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • A learning trajectory with masterclasses and workshops on Transformation Design, Speculative Design, User Research, Game Design and much more

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Program Reviews

4.50 Rating
based on 10 reviews
  • 5 rating 60%
  • 4 rating 30%
  • 3 rating 10%
  • 2 rating 0%
  • 1 rating 0%
  • Growth 4.3
  • Support 4.8
  • Fun 4.4
  • Housing 3.8
  • Safety 4.9
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Yijun
3/5
No, I don't recommend this program

Review

The staff in DSS are nice and helpful and most trainees in DSS are also friendly. In addition, it provides a good opportunity to build your resume, which will help you in your further career. However, for such a traineeship, it is very important to have a good group mates. Especially when the people in your group have a different skill level (for example, someone with a master collaborating with someone who did not even finish a bachelor yet), you might have a worse experience. As a consequence, the final project might be worse and not representative of the skill level of the one with a master.

100 people found this review helpful.
Response from Digital Society School

It was great to have you in our program Yijun!
Thank you for your feedback, I am sorry to hear that your experience was one that you don't recommend to others.
We will try and make sure to learn from our experiences with your team and do better!

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Natalia
5/5
Yes, I recommend this program

Becoming a Digital Transformation Designer at DSS

Having worked in graphic design industry for 2 years prior I have joined the program with a clear goal: to get some European working experience, expand my knowledge and understand what I can do beyond my current profession. The program exceeded my expectations by giving me all I've asked for and more: a solid set of soft skills, far superior understanding of how to solve sustainability-related issues, as well as great design thinking and facilitation methodologies. The program also showed me my capabilities as a professional, gave self-confidence, courage, and great friends.

What is your advice to future travelers on this program?
Make sure to have housing in advance.
Don't be afraid to talk to anybody in DSS, ask for help/advice, there are no bosses there.
Trust the process, commit 100%.
The program is very intense so make sure to have enough time to process it and don't combine it with another job, it works neither for you or for your team.
95 people found this review helpful.
Response from Digital Society School

Thank you so much for your kind words, Natalia!

You impressed me and my colleagues with your curiosity, sense of humor and professionalism. And we are all very curious to see where your career takes you, stay in touch!

Questions & Answers

Since we try to be inclusive we try to not use formal requirements if we can help it. In other words if you can convince one of our program managers that you are a match for one of our projects, you are in. In case you are not an EU citizen however you will need to have a completed Bachelor's degree. This degree should not be older than two years.