1st-year bachelor's
You’re likely to spend your first year building networks and making friends. You can join a club or association, or start volunteering or even become an ambassador. Our advice: start developing your adaptability, follow a language course. Think ahead and find out what your opportunities are in your second or third year. Enhance your employability skills by following online learning modules.
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Acquire Skills
Academic information skills
A selection of tutorials by the UM Library to improve your academic information skills.
Assertiveness training
In this training, you develop an assertive attitude and you work on your self-confidence.
Boost your self-confidence
During this workshop you will learn how to be more aware of your personal emotions and characteristics. You will get tools to give your personal life a positive boost.
Clinical skills
Students will develop clinical skills (e.g., obtaining a patient’s psychiatric anamnesis, determining DSM-diagnoses, and writing a professional report).
Communication skills (theory and practice)
Throughout the entire Bachelor's and Master's programme students learn about and practice their communication skills .
Crash course in Decision making
Do you put off making decisions, find it hard to distinguish what is important and have doubts after deciding? Making a decision is difficult, but we can help you improve with this workshop.
Discover your competences
You gain insight into what you can and want. You itemise your competencies, key qualities and motives. With this workshop you create a good starting point for entering the employment market.
Fear of failure training
Always feeling tense and nervous? Do you panic before or during tests or a presentation? Then the fear of failure training may be something for you.
Language courses
Maastricht University's Language Centre offers a broad range of language services to students. We help them communicate effectively in an international environment.
Online career library
The Online Career Library comprises the best websites to help you start off your career.
Presentation skills
This interactive, hands-on workshop is built around your presentations –using these to practice, get feedback and improve.
Self-help: improve your study/professional skills
Tips and tools for improving your own professional/study skills.
Study efficacy increase group
The efficacy increase group is a self-help group for students who find it difficult to concentrate on their studies and tend to procrastinate. The group ensures that you improve your study behaviour and that you use an effective method for studying.
Team building for board members
We can help your board to become a real team (for Board members only).
Time management
This interactive workshop will give you an insight in your current time management habits and it will help you identify areas for improvement.
Training Introduction to the Library
In an interactive way students will be introduced to finding scientific information.
Training Systematic Literature Search
Students are introduced to information sources (particularly PsycINFO), they will learn to use them and they will collect literature on the subject systematically.
Workshop - Mindfulness and meditation
Mindfulness teaches you to be present attentively in the here and now, so that you are aware of your current experience. It helps you to take some distance from the issues you worry about. An effect can be that your mind becomes calmer and that you feel more relaxed.
Workshop Stress management
Do you find it difficult to find a good balance between study and leisure time? In this workshop you look for your own stress signals and you get tools to keep stress under control.
Workshops study skills
Within the first mentor meeting students are introduced to different types of learning strategies, which they can incorporate in their own way of studying.
Gain experience
Become a research assistant
Show your interest in becoming a research assistant to the research staff members at FPN.
Discover Psychology (e.g. professor's parade)
Professors tell an inspiring story about their field of interest in the beginning of the academic year.
Maastricht Student Conference 'Psychological Perspectives'
A two-day conference with talks and workshops by professionals (alumni) informing students about future professional perspectives.
Research participation
Every Bachelor's student at FPN has to participate as a research participant in a number of scientific empirical studies. In this way they become acquainted with a variety of methods of empirical research, and are introduced in the different research areas.
Student jobs at UM
There are various jobs at Maastricht University for UM Students. These vary from organising the introduction week to photographing and writing for our social media and providing information to high school students.
Get personal support
Career advice
The career advisers of UM Career Services are specialised in the area of study and career choices and the job market. They can help you with all your career-related questions in a 45 min. session.
Individual Psychological Support
Everyone feels a little bit out of sorts sometimes. You can notice this in various ways: From fear of failure, procrastination and problems with planning to eating disorders, stress, gloominess and even depression. Our team of student psychologists can help you.
Mentor programme
Students have individual and group meetings with their mentor in which study progress and development are discussed.
Personal appointment with academic advisor
All students have the possibility to consult the academic advisers with study-related questions.
Portofolio
Focus on self-reflection, personal learning goals and study progress.
Coping with loss and mourning group
Have you lost someone and do you want to put things in order and learn to let go? Then the coping with loss group may be something for you.
Quick career advice
Questions about your career and study? Want to know what you can do after you graduate? Have you got doubts about your job application letter, your CV or your profile on LinkedIn? Come to a Quick Career Advice (15min).
Well-being week
During this week students focus on their well-being. Also topics related to employability, such as time-management are included in the programme. The well-being week is organized by UM Career Services.