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Up until 2023, each year, the Student Project Team organised the Student Idea Competition. In this competition, you could pitch your projects or ideas to a jury of experts at Maastricht University (UM) and win a cash prize to help make your projects or ideas a reality.
Since 2024, the Student Idea Competition has merged with the Maastricht University Challenge to become the SPT’s Social Impact Prize.
You can learn how to apply for jobs or how to spend your time in the most effective way. Boost your self-confidence or improve your presentation skills. You get ample opportunity to develop your personal and professional competencies.
Are you looking for a job? UM Career services maintains a vacancies database, provides an overview of current events, and offers tips, tools and databases.
Students who go abroad for a study, internship or graduation must master the language of the guest institute sufficiently. This is usually English, but sometimes other languages are spoken. Often, mastery of language is a formal requirement for admission to an education programme. If this is the case, you will have to take a test to demonstrate your proficiency.
Students who go abroad to study, to do an internship or to conduct research are often required to take tests. A language test, for example, or a test that measures other qualities.
Two well-known language tests are the American TOEFL and the British IELTS. In addition, students are often required to take a GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) or GRE (Graduate Record Examination).
Issues with your rent, problems with your landlord, defects that are not timely repaired? Huurteam Zuid-Limburg, formerly known as the Housing Helpdesk, helps you with housing-related problems.
You can file an objection against written decisions taken by a body within the university, for example decisions taken by the Executive Board. This can be decisions regarding admission to a bachelor, your registration or regarding tuition fees.
A complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction for which you cannot file an objection or an appeal. It is about an individual matter that concerns you. For example, complaints can be about:
This code contains agreements on the treatment of international students. Along with other Dutch universities, Maastricht University (UM) has committed to upholding the code, which also includes regulations on the complaints procedure. Do you feel that UM has not adhered to the Code of Conduct? You can file a complaint with the Complaints Service Point (CSP).
Student life in Maastricht would be nothing without the student organisations that exist in the city. That is why it is so important to support these organisations!
UM has set up the Student Initiative Helpdesk (SIH) to centralise information for student organisations, and increase the support and contact between these organisations and UM.