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The Central PhD Candidates Platform (CPCP) is a UM-wide platform that discusses interfaculty and (inter)national issues that concern PhD candidates. This includes topics such as workload, contractual and other statuses, teaching duties, psychological health and the duration of PhD tracks.

CPCP’s activities

identifying and addressing UM-wide issues for PhD candidates
exchanging PhD experiences and best practices across faculties
collaborating with various organs such as Academic Affairs, the University Council, PhD Academy, Graduate Schools, etc.
providing solicited and unsolicited advice to the Executive Board, with a particular focus on PhD matters
disseminating CPCP discussion items, decisions, etc. to faculty PhD representatives and Graduate Schools
representing PhD candidates from Maastricht University in the Promovendi Netwerk Nederland (PNN*).

* PNN is the national organisation that represents the interests of PhD candidates who work at Dutch universities, University Medical Centers or research centers. PNN discusses possible issues and PhD policy with local PhD councils.

How does it work?

The platform consists of six representatives; one PhD candidate from each faculty. They have taken up the official role of representing PhD candidates within their faculty.

Meetings

CPCP representatives meet at least 4 times per year, with additional ad hoc meetings when required. Decisions are made on a consensus basis; however, email correspondence may be used for expediting minor or urgent decisions. The meetings are open to all PhD candidates and interested parties provided there are no confidential items to discuss. Please send an e-mail to phdplatform@maastrichtuniversity.nl to inquire after the agenda for the next meeting.

The chair and secretary for these meetings rotate on a per-meeting basis. If you have questions, want to participate, or bring an issue to the attention of the platform, you can always contact the CPCP by sending an e-mail to: phdplatform@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

The agenda and minutes of CPCP meetings can be accessed through MyUM.

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The Path to Brighter Futures

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During my bachelor’s I found a side-job as a student coach for elementary and secondary school children. I noticed that learning math or reading was not always as easy for others as it was for me. You sit next to a student, trying to explain one algebra exercise for the 10th time. While they are racking their brains or having lost concentrating from the start, all your efforts seem lost. I am sure that I am not the only person who experienced a lack of patience during these moments (props to all parents and teachers). Through this experience, I learned that if you want to help other students you need to do more than explain dry theories or hide math in a game. And it became very apparent to me that other students need help. So how do we do this successfully?

Enter Match for Brighter Futures (MFBF). This project enables teenagers from secondary school [middelbare school] who cannot afford normal homework services to match up with university students who voluntarily coach them. Not only do the students help teenagers with their homework, but they also coach them with planning and guiding their ambitions. MFBF differentiates itself from ordinary homework services since the underlying intention helps younger students to be aware of why and how they study. Hence, the project has seen great results. Two weeks ago Julia wrote a blog called ‘Emma and I’ on her wonderful experience with the project (read here). This week we will share an interview with another student coach as well as the results from the 2018 and 2019 reports.

Making the UM greener is not easy. But I want to help.

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Maastricht Students

Blog by UCM-student Svea Grünkorn about Green Impact.

The Green Impact programme first crossed my mind when I saw a picture of the frog “Kermit” being circulated within the university. Teams of the UM-wide Green Impact programme were trying to steal the stuffed animal from one another whereby they would score points for the challenge. The Green Impact challenge is a behaviour change and engagement programme which encourages staff and students to take sustainability actions during their daily lives at Maastricht University.

The Alla

Maastricht Students

There are many inevitable things that we have to go through in life from the moment we are born: learning how to eat using a fork, learning to use the toilet, saying ‘thank you’, etc. This sequence of proper societal integration continues until we are adults. We always have to adapt to our environment and to the people around us.

“You never know who you are going to meet” with Costas Georgiades

Maastricht Students

Law Ball, Ambassador Lecture Series, Opening of the Academic year… We sat down with Costas Georgiades, a 23-year-old law student from Cyprus, who is the epitome of student involvement. We discussed the different projects he is involved with and what led him to where he is now. Read on to find out more about Costas!

Giving students a voice with Maarten Butink

Maastricht Students

Maarten Butink, a 21 year-old Health Sciences student who chose to focus on the Policy, Management and Evaluation of Health Care specialisation, sat with us to discuss his position as student assessor. He shared what got him where he is now and what he hopes to accomplish thanks to his new position at the university. Read on to find on more about Maarten!

Your privacy is important to Maastricht University (UM), and we therefore exercise caution in making use of your data. UM is the data controller for your personal data. This privacy statement sets out how UM safeguards your privacy.

This document specifically concerns the processing of personal data in the context of open days, experience days and other information events at UM. UM also has a general privacy statement, available at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl, which we refer you to for more information.

Contact details

If you have questions about this privacy statement, want to know more about how UM handles personal data or wish to make a complaint, please contact:

Attn: Data protection officer
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PO Box 616
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privacy@maastrichtuniversity.nl

You can also send an email directly to the UM data protection officer via fg@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Which personal data does UM process?

UM may process the following personal data in the context of its open days and other information events:

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email address accompanying person

UM obtains these personal data directly from you.

Purposes

UM processes the abovementioned personal data in order to:

organise open days, experience days and other information events
evaluate information events
improve the quality of events to align them more closely with visitors’ wishes
organise marketing activities.

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For UM to process your personal data, there needs to be a legal basis for doing so. The legal grounds provide the justification for processing your personal data.

UM processes your personal data as a matter of public interest. After all, UM’s role is to provide university education, and it can only do so when enough students wish to take part in that education.

Marketing activities are only carried out with your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, although you cannot do so with retroactive effect.

Retention periods

UM retains personal data no longer than is necessary to achieve the purpose of the data processing or to meet a legal obligation. Your personal data are deleted from our systems one year after your expected starting date, unless you enrol at UM; in that case your data are transferred to our student database.

If the data are processed on the basis of your consent, they will be deleted within six months of you withdrawing your consent.

Third-party access

UM has taken measures to ensure that only those people involved in processing your data have access to them. Your personal data are not shared with third parties, with the exception of parties providing services to UM. UM has entered into written agreements with these parties on the processing and security of personal data.

Your rights

Privacy legislation gives you a number of rights with regard to your personal data. These rights are outlined below. You can find more information about these rights and how to exercise them in the general privacy statement at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl.

You have the right to access your personal data and to have those data corrected or deleted. In addition, you have the right to restrict the processing of your data, to transfer your data to another party, and to object when they are processed on the basis of a legitimate interest.

If you wish to exercise one of the above rights, please send an email to privacy@maastrichtuniversity.nl or directly to the data protection officer at fg@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

If you have a complaint about the processing of your personal data at UM, please contact us using the above contact details. You also have the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority. You can find out how to do so on the website of the Data Protection Authority.

Dear guest,

You will no longer receive emails about UM corporate events.

Kind regards,
Maastricht University

This document specifically concerns the processing of personal data in the context of corporate events such as the Opening of the Academic Year or the Dies Natalis. UM also has a general privacy statement, available at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl, which we refer you to for more information.

Contact details

If you have questions about this privacy statement, want to know more about how UM handles personal data or wish to make a complaint, please contact:

Attn: Data protection officer
Maastricht University
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
privacy@maastrichtuniversity.nl

You can also send an email directly to the UM data protection officer via fg@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Which personal data does UM process?

UM may process the following personal data in the context of corporate events:

name
email address
participation cortege
name of partner
email address of partner.

UM obtains these personal data directly from you or from a third party, e.g. your partner, who voluntarily shares these data with UM.

Purposes

UM processes personal data with the aim of inviting people who are directly or indirectly associated with the university to events it organises and for keeping statistics related to these events.

Legal grounds

UM processes your personal data on the basis of its legitimate interest, i.e. inviting guests to attend corporate events and keeping statistics related to these events. You have the right to object to this at any time by contacting UM.

Retention periods

Third-party access

UM has taken measures to ensure that only those people involved in processing your data have access to them. Your personal data are not shared with third parties, with the exception of the party whose software we use to send the invitations to corporate events. UM has a written agreement with this party on the processing and security of personal data.

Your rights

If you wish to exercise one of the above rights, please send an email to privacy@maastrichtuniversity.nl or directly to the data protection officer at fg@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Our History

Several efforts contributed to the inception of the Clinic. The Province of Limburg supported the idea by organising and sponsoring the launch event of the Clinic, which marks its official starting date (7 September 2018), but also facilitates the strengthening of ties between the academic staff, students, law firms, and the artistic community. The Faculty of Law granted the Faculty Innovation Prize to our Clinic, allowing it to work within the premises of the Faculty and making sure that other necessary requirements are fulfilled. Because the Clinic is integrated within our programmes, it is also supported by the Advanced Master Programme in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management and the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (through its funding of the Jean Monnet bachelor module on Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market).

The Indie Art Legal Clinic has been integrated in and superseded by 'The Innovator’s Legal Clinic (TILC)'.

What we do

The Indie Art Legal Clinic provides pro-bono advice to independent artists (visual artists, musicians, performers, street artists, film makers, game designers, programmers, etc.). The advice is given by mixed teams of both master and bachelor students, upon request from an artist. Students work together by identifying the problem, researching possible solutions and issuing a report with the proposed solution, all under supervision of a faculty member and an experienced lawyer. The client can meet with the team after this report is issued, for a face-to-face consultation (which is made under the supervision of either the faculty member and/or a lawyer as well).

Our students are drawn from the Advanced Master in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management and from the Jean Monnet Bachelor Course Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market.

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