Caring Universities
As a student, it can be challenging to balance your studies, social life, work, exercise and everything else you have to do. That’s why it’s important to be aware of how you’re feeling and to take good care of yourself. Through the Caring Universities collaboration, Maastricht University (UM) offers free online programmes to assess and improve your mental wellbeing.
Mind-Health Check
When we’re busy, we often forget to check in with ourselves. But that’s precisely when we need to do it the most. Our online questionnaire gives you insights into your current mental wellbeing and offers personalised advice on how to improve it.
Do the Mind-Health Check today!
It takes about 25 minutes to complete and can be paused at any time.
Through Caring Universities, we offer free online services that help students improve their mental health. For more information, visit caring-universities.com.
Free online programmes
If your mental wellbeing needs a boost, you can sign up for one of our free online programmes. We offer a variety of programmes aimed at reducing stress, perfectionism and procrastination, as well as improving mood, self-esteem and sleep habits. Available in both English and Dutch, the programmes can be followed anonymously and are offered under the guidance of professional e-health coaches. The programmes are highly rated by students in our annual survey, with 80 per cent reporting being satisfied or very satisfied with the results.
Explore our programmes and discover how they can benefit your mental health.
Feedback & improvement
With Caring Universities, we conduct an annual survey and use the anonymous data to see how our students are doing and to improve and expand our online programmes. For example, in response to survey results, we introduced new programmes in 2022 and 2023 that focus on better sleep, strengthening relationships and combatting perfectionism.
Based on scientific evidence
A core pillar of the Caring Universities project is its scientific basis. Not only do we publish the results of our annual student survey, but we also research and publish articles on our e-health programmes. This ensures that the programmes are evidence-based and continuously updated according to the latest research.
View our Caring Universities publications
Caring Universities is an initiative of Maastricht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Avans University of Applied Sciences.