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.
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).
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
Mozambican NGOs trained in intervention mapping
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, supported by MUNDO, launches master programme in nutrition
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...
Two PhDs last steps in capacity building trajectory in international law for Indonesia
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...
UM participates in EU project in Thailand
In the first week of March Mundo director Han Aarts visited Thailand for the kick-off of a new EU funded project. Led by the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) this project will focus on strengthening resilience for climate change among socio-economically vulnerable urban communities. Maastricht...
Faculty of Law trains human rights defenders in international criminal law
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.