MUNDO - Knowledge for Development

MUNDO is the Maastricht University Centre for International Cooperation in Academic Development. MUNDO aims to contribute to development through better (higher) education and research. MUNDO facilitates international partnerships between Maastricht University and institutions in low and medium income countries around the world. The principal objective of these partnerhips is to strengthen the educational and research capacity of our partners. In doing so we also contribute to the international profile and internationalization of Maastricht University.

In the cooperation with our partners MUNDO involves faculty and other staff and sometimes also students of Maastricht University.

Contact

Postal address
MUNDO
Maastricht University
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

Secretarial office and visiting address
   Dora Booij-Ankersmit
  Minderbroedersberg 8, room 1.003
   Dora.booij[at]maastrichtuniversity[dot]nl
   + (31) 43 3883513

MUNDO Projects

Mundo has implemented projects in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Most MUNDO projects aim at curriculum review and development. Maastricht University is a global leader in educational innovation, specifically in problem-based learning. Building on this experience, in many projects we introduce innovative student centered approaches to education. Other elements in many projects are skills training, staff training, PhD training and quality assurance.

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Knowledge for Development

Maastricht University is a globally connected university that contributes to the global development agenda in its education, (applied) research and problem solving on many issues crucial for global sustainable development. Mundo highlights and monitors these efforts by linking them explicitly to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Useful links

UM institutes and centres active in global development.

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MUNDO's mission

 

  Through Academic cooperation across the world, our purpose is to create an atmosphere which stimulates people to learn from each other for their individual benefit and for the benefit of the institutions and societies they represent.  

 

What we do

  • Analysis of educational programmes and informed advice on their improvement

  • Introduce interactive student-centred ways of teaching/learning

  • Curriculum development

  • Curriculum improvement

  • Develop skills training as an integral part of a curriculum

  • Improve quality assurance
  • Education change management
  • Internationalisation and developing the international classrooom
  • Developing the research agenda, the research environment and research cooperation
  • Staff training
  • PhD training

 

MUNDO - Goals

For whom?

We partner with public and private universities, knowledge institutions, governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in providing higher education, training and conducting research.

The goals our partners share with us include:

  • Making educational programmes more interesting, challenging and relevant for students.
  • Making graduates better prepared and equipped to serve their societies.
  • Conducting innovative research to address challenges our societies are facing.
  • Liaise with society and to contribute to its development by extending and sharing knowledge.

Maastricht University is a leader in student centred learning, including problem based learning, outcome based education, skills training as an integral part of curriculum and competence based learning.

If your institution is also dedicated to these concepts, we may be the partner you are looking for.

News

  • Faculty of Law trains human rights defenders in international criminal law

    Tuesday, January 28, 2020

    The course “Training Human Rights Defenders in the Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court” was organised by Fabián Raimondo, Associate Professor of Public International Law, supported by Mundo. 

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  • The impact of an international law project

    Thursday, December 12, 2019

    Over the last five years, Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law together with Mundo has implemented a project to strengthen education and research in international law at the Faculty of Law at Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD) in Bandung, Indonesia. The project was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands through its NICHE programme, administered by Nuffic.

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  • Grant of €950.000 for a MUNDO project in Mozambique

    Wednesday, December 11, 2019

    Maastricht University has been awarded a grant of €950.000 by Nuffic for an Orange Knowledge Programme project in Mozambique.

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