The team at Response_Able Futures, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Design and Health_Care would like to thank the European Commission for their support for laying the groundwork for this course. Thank you to our consortium schools LUCA School of Arts , Universidade de Aveiro and Sheffield Hallam University and the deans and people in leadership who supported us in our ambition to bring such a prestigeous programme to our departments and individual campuses.

Thank you to the core team of thinkers and designers who worked tirelessly on the application and on its implementation. Passionate about design, participation, research and design education, they see it all fitting under the banner of social design and the future of care: Dr. Andrea Wilkinson, Niels Hendriks, Joana Quental, Luís Ferreira, Rita Maldonado Branco, Carlos Peralta and Eve Stirling. Thank you to Dolores Van den Eynde for her amazing communication skills early on in the process, and to Floris Carpentero for stepping in for the prep-year.Many thanks to Martha Verleyen for her wisdom in project management and Nino Saracino for his ability to navigate the student arrival process.

Shout out to the students who have left the comfort of their homes to join us on this journey. Thank you for your vote of confidence. To global colleagues, researchers and teachers who have prodded students to apply, thank you. Keep sending us your best ResFut(ers).

Watch our programme grow and adapt

Over the next two years, watch as the ResFut'27 cohort design, learn, do, think, debate, create, participate, engage, reflect and make.

Stay tuned to know more!
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