Elevate your team's communication skills with our specialised ‘English in the workplace’ workshops. In addition to our ‘English at Work’ course, we offer customisable half-day workshops designed to address your team’s specific needs.
- Part time
Get ready for the best summer ever! This six-week programme is designed for adventurous students looking for an authentic European study experience while earning credits towards their major.
- Full time
When defending a proposal or giving a conference presentation, getting your message across and keeping the audience engaged takes specific skills and techniques.
- Part time
After each class, you’ll have plenty of time to explore Maastricht, making it the perfect combination of learning and leisure.
- Part time
After you’ve taken this course you’ll be able to interact in English with a higher degree of fluency and spontaneity.
- Part time
The discussion will feature Christine Neuhold, Professor of EU Democratic Governance and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. With extensive research experience in EU institutions and governance, Prof. Dr. Neuhold brings the academic lens to public affairs, one grounded in evidence, institutional knowledge, and a deep understanding of how policy processes really work. Her work has long emphasised the importance of knowledge-sharing between academic institutions and policy practitioners.
Prof. Neuhold will be joined by Vicky Marissen, a Senior Public Affairs Specialist at ETI. With years of hands-on experience navigating the Brussels policy landscape, advising clients across sectors, and designing strategic advocacy campaigns, Vicky offers the practitioner’s view one that values coalition-building and the art of influence. Her perspective is rooted in practice, but she increasingly sees the need for stronger connections to academic research in creating arguments that resonate with policymakers.
Together, they will engage in an informal and insightful conversation about how research can be better integrated into public affairs strategies, and how advocacy professionals and academics alike can benefit from more sustained collaboration.
On June 16, 2025, the UM Brussels Hub and European Training Institute a European public affairs consultancy, are co-hosting an engaging a lunch talk that brings together two perspectives often seen as separate but that, in reality, have much to gain from closer collaboration.