Ten years ago, Codarts' study programme consisted mainly of courses aimed at the student's artistic development. In 2011, this changed with the establishment of an internal health team where students could go if they had an injury. This team was expanded in the years that followed to form the current multidisciplinary Student Lifeprogram, including the Performing Arts Health team. These health professionals also started teaching classes on the physical and mental challenges in the performing arts. In the past years, more and more health professionals became involved as teachers in the various health programmes. In 2015, the programme was supported for the first time by researchers from the Arts & Wellbeing professorship. The Student Life Monitor was built and further developed. Since 2019, students can get insight into physical and mental health test results via their own dashboard. The educational initiative has been implemented in almost all Codarts' bachelor's programmes.

The initiative Student Life has enabled Codarts to move from a curative (putting on band-aids) to a preventive approach (preventing health problems) and ultimately to education aimed at performance improvement (optimising health). Research by the Codarts lectureship Arts & Wellbeing shows that this working method is paying off. Codarts students have fewer injuries than students at other art universities and less students quit their studies due to health problems.