Sustainable development and the related strive to make economies circular are grand challenges our world currently faces. These targets can only be achieved via an integrated and interwoven collaboration of society, science and technology. Our vision is that academic education should train a new generation of transdisciplinary connectors who are skilled to collaborate outside their comfort zone and thereby able to create innovative solutions with different stakeholders. This manner of working requires strong disciplinary knowledge but importantly, also skills to build bridges, try new things, create, philosophize and practically act. Here, we propose “The Da Vinci Project”, in which we will challenge 3rd-year Bachelor students to experiment with crossing the boundaries between scientific disciplines and work on real-life sustainability-related challenges with the involvement of stakeholders. Via an active learning-by-doing approach, we will train students to collaborate transdisciplinary, thereby broadening their horizon and teaching them connecting skills hard to acquire in a normal academic environment. Using the Comenius grant we will run a pilot for 6 groups of five students originating from different scientific disciplines. The students will solve specific sustainable development-related challenges of external parties through an integral design process. In this way, we will educate individuals able to make broader connections, who – according to research - are the ones that have real impact on change. We envisage that this project will strongly benefit a broader higher education community, as the concept and/or the developed teaching materials can be used for similar projects in other universities and scientific fields.