UCM takes part in EU-project to promote Liberal Arts and Sciences

Together with King’s College in London, Science Po in Paris, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, University College in Freiburg and Leuphana University in Lüneburg, UCM will publish several best practices regarding academic advising and activating education and share this through congresses and training events.

UCM’s vision

University College Maastricht’s vision is that college students should be in control of their own education. If they can freely pursue their own interests and questions, both in their curriculum and in the classroom, they will be more engaged, work better and achieve better results.

 “Regrettably, this is still a rare approach in European higher education”, says Prof. Teun Dekker, who became Europe’s first Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Education this year. “That is why UCM has teamed up with five other European Bachelor’s programmes that share UCM’s belief in personalized education, to exchange best practices and inspire other universities to adopt this philosophy. Over the next three years, UCM staff-members will work together with colleagues from the other partners to develop toolkits for making students more active in the classroom and for helping them make better choices about their education.”