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
Visiting address
Minderbroedersberg 8, room 1.003
Han Aarts, director
+ (31) 6 46 70 50 26
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
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Analysis of educational programmes and informed advice on their improvement
- Introduce interactive student-centred ways of teaching/learning
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Curriculum development
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Curriculum improvement
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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
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
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In 2022 Mundo implemented a project in which nine members of staff of Amodefa and Lambda, two Mozambican NGOs active in the field of sexual health and reproductive rights were trained in intervention mapping. Their staff were trained by Prof. Rob Ruiter and Prof. Kai Jonas, both of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht. The training was funded by Nuffic in the framework of the Orange Knowledge Programme.
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On 16 November 2022 Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo, Mozambique presented a new master programme: Sciences of Nutrition. This master programme is the result of a Nuffic funded project in the framework of the Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) in which Universidade Eduardo Mondlane was supported by Maastricht University and Wageningen University.
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Two Indonesian PhD candidates are scheduled to defend their theses in the coming months. Both candidates are staff members of the international law department of the Faculty of Law of Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD), and the defence of their PhD research is the last in a chain of activities, stretched over a period of six years, aiming to build capacity in state-of-the-art knowledge in international law for Indonesia.
