YUFE

A truly European experience

Why study at one university, when you can study at multiple! YUFE allows you to build your European curriculum while you continue to study for your degree.

YUFE embraces an open curriculum philosophy, which means that students have the opportunity to self-design parts of their learning path. YUFE education allows students to tailor their course selection, and align their academic journey with their individual interests. Completing YUFE education equips students with essential academic skills, while cultivating transferable competencies and a strong learner autonomy.

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A path to European career growth

Learn, travel, and work across the YUFE Alliance to enhance your career prospects. Whether you are an academic or administrative staff member, you can design your own YUFE Career Track. 

Guided by the YUFE Recruitment Policy and the YUFE Staff Development Policy, the alliance is fully committed to enhancing your individual career path with unique opportunities in mobility, training, and career advancement. We place a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusivity.

Opportunities available to you:

• Experience professional (virtual) mobility
• Discover new professional opportunities
• Participate in the biannual YUFE Academy to share and exchange knowledge

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A portal to Europe and Knowledge

Synergies for South Limburg: Imagine the innovative and problem-solving capacities of Maastricht University multiplied by ten. YUFE enables citizens to benefit from the combined expertise and experience of 10 other regionally embedded European universities. 

Maastricht University attracts young talent from around the globe, transforming the city into a youthful and international hub. As one of the largest employers in the region, we significantly contribute to preserving Maastricht’s cultural heritage by managing its historical buildings. We make academic knowledge accessible and valuable to society, generating new insights, educating students, and fostering ventures that strengthen our region. Initiatives like the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus exemplify our commitment, where UM experts collaborate with the private and public sectors to address societal challenges.

Through YUFE, we empower citizens to engage with academia, fostering a sense of community and active participation. This includes a range of activities such as volunteer opportunities, citizen science projects, and lifelong learning programs, ensuring that everyone can benefit from and contribute to our collective knowledge and expertise.

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With YUFE, you can enrich your degree and take single academic courses, learn new languages and develop professional skills. All this in our OpenYUFE programme, offered to you for free, through which you can shape your learning either by taking courses and activities online or onsite or by combining both. You decide! You can use OpenYUFE as an opportunity to travel abroad or you can take single academic courses online to experience learning at different European universities right from your home. The choice is yours and the great thing is that you can join YUFE in addition to your degree any time.

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With YUFE, you can also take up larger educational units across Europe as the minors are structured as 30 ECTS modules. YUFE Minors are delivered as a blended learning experience which includes mandatory physical mobility, online courses delivered by other YUFE universities and a YUFE Challenge course; an applied project in the local community. 

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Within one discipline, BioYUFE offers  students who are registered at any YUFE partner university in a biology or life science programme the opportunity to enrol for BioYUFE elective courses. Educational offers are exchanged, and timetables are being adjusted to allow students to benefit from elective courses across universities in the Alliance. The majority of the BioYUFE courses are held online and in English.

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Still in the implementation phase, yet expected to be launched in academic year 25/26 is the joint programme bachelor Urban Sustainability Studies. This undergraduate programme offered jointly by the consortium of universities within the YUFE alliance, responds to the need for interdisciplinary professionals in the field of urban sustainability.

The Bachelor of Urban Sustainability Studies is structured as a three-year programme consisting of 180 ECTS. It is based on a student-centred open-curriculum approach, offering a high degree of learner autonomy with students primarily in charge of their own learning. The majority of the YUFE Bachelor courses are taught onsite and in English. The programme also contains multiple opportunities for taking up academic courses online, for (foreign) language learning and for improving students’ Academic English skills. Students will spend at minimum two semesters pursuing a minor at one or two other partner universities within the consortium. This approach offers students the chance to broaden their academic horizons and experience different European cultures and perspectives. 

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