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To mark this year’s International Education Day, 24 January, we hear from course tutor Victor Osei Kwadwo, among others, on the value of training in public policy communication to make our Master’s programme more engaging, more real and more concrete, especially in the context of an extended lockdown.

MPP alumnus Rodolpho Zannin Feijó joined the first online edition of the Maastricht University Alumni Week last month as a guest speaker from his home city of Curitiba in Brazil. Here are six highlights from the conversation.

Another significant victory for Maastricht law students in the Nuremberg Moot Court!

I am sitting at my desk at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a safety precaution for myself, of course, but also an act of solidarity. Solidarity with experts and solidarity with informed decision makers.

“It was an exciting day and a great learning experience, especially given the time pressure, the intensity of the challenge and having to work with a new team,” said Apoorva Shankar, looking back on this year's NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition 2020.

In February 2020, some 50 students from our Master's programme joined a trip to the international institutions in Geneva.

Congratulations to all UM students who received their degree this fall!

Elsemarie Jorissen took the expression "Go the extra mile" very literally: in the summer of 2019, she travelled to Uganda, to a place near the border with South Sudan. Not for a holiday, but for field research on a refugee settlement.

Students from our Master's in Public Policy and Human Development (2018-19) marked the end of their course at a festive ceremony in Sint Janskerk, Maastricht.

Last Saturday, 13 October, we welcomed almost 3100 prospective students and their parents or guardians who wanted to find out more about Maastricht University. While mostly Dutch, our visitors had more than 56 different nationalities.