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… honoured guests, professor Ignatieff and dr. Ghosh. A warm welcome as well to the members of our Supervisory Board, students, alumni and of course, members of our staff: a heartfelt welcome on behalf of the Executive Board Martin Paul and Nick Bos to this academic ceremony, in which we celebrate our university’s forty-third birthday. You just listened to Ms. Ineke Schuit who plays our church organ. She will also accompany us when we leave the church again, thank you Ms. Schuit, it is always such a … many Maastricht students and staff. Our staff even signalled to the rector of CEU that the institution was welcome to move to Maastricht. It’s therefore no coincidence that, today, we will present an honorary doctorate to the rector and president of this prestigious university, Professor Michael Ignatieff. He summed it up very clearly in an interview on our UM website: “Every university in Europe ought to be free from the kind of overtly political manipulation and intimidation that we’ve been … labelled under the concept of global citizenship education. These competences were also defined as key by our students and teachers who debated the implementation of global citizenship education at our university over the last year. A global citizen can understand and analyse global issues with local impact, or vice versa, with an eye also for the need to connect different scientific disciplines. In addition to recognising theoretical and methodological connections, this involves cognitive skills …