For those joining Maastricht University from abroad, the International Staff Support Office provides helpful information for relocation and integration. General practical information for all staff is available on the university's employee support page.
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Training and development
The Talent Development Centre offers a range of training programs and career coaching for postdocs. This includes the Leadership Academy and Self leadership initiative.
The Language Centre provides courses in Dutch, English, and academic writing.
The university library offers workshops on topics such as systematic reviews, open access publishing, open science, research software, and FAIR data management.
Research support
Each faculty has a Research Support Office (RSO) with funding officers who can assist with various tasks, including support during funding applications, ongoing research, and policy advice. A list of funding advisors is available on the university intranet.
Recognition & Rewards
Maastricht University (UM) aims to ensure every employee has a fulfilling career in which their talents are used, recognised and valued. UM strives to be an open, inclusive and diverse community of academic citizens who are rewarded based on their own merits.
Alongside other public academic institutions and research funds (UNL, NFU, KNAW, NOW and ZonMW) UM is changing the system through which we assess the achievements of our academic staff. In 2019, we jointly published a position paper, Room for Everyone’s Talent, focusing on modernising the Dutch university system. We translated the position paper into an extensive Recognition & Rewards (R&R) programme in which all Dutch universities participate.
Cross border work policies
If you are employed by Maastricht University and (continue to) live in Belgium or Germany during your employment in the Netherlands, you are a ‘cross-border worker’. Your situation may significantly change in terms of taxation and social security. Read more about our cross-border work policy here!
Ethics and integrity
At UM, we highly value integrity and ethically responsible research. We strive to maintain scientific integrity and make decisions based on high ethical standards for research involving human participants, personally identifiable data, or animal testing.
If you teach or do research at UM, you share in the responsibility for maintaining academic integrity. Our academic staff are expected to adhere to the general principles of professional academic practice at all times.
UM endorses the principles of professional scientific conduct as expressed in the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity and has established its Regulation for Scientific Integrity at UM. This complies with the overarching UM Integrity Code of Conduct.
PostdocNL platform
Post-doctoral researchers make up a large part of the scientific workforce in academia. However, they are often quite invisible as a group for policy makers. To address this on a national level, the Postdoc-NL platform has been initiated, with the goal of uniting and representing post-doctoral researchers from all backgrounds and knowledge institutions in The Netherlands.
Postdoc-NL aims to serve as an advocate for post-doctoral researchers, and its mission is to improve the issues that they experience.
IGIR Expert Lecture Series
- lecture
Trump & trade wars, Europe between Scylla & Charybdis
By John Clarke (former EU Chief Agriculture Negotiator and former Head of the EU Delegation to the WTO and UN in Geneva)
Municipality of Heerlen, Parkstad Urban Region and UM invest 6 million in collaboration
- Corporate
- UM news
Heerlen grants a one-time contribution of €1,478,050 to Maastricht University as part of the Regio Deal application
FASoS researchers Joris Boonen and Thomas Frissen receive NRO grant
- Researchers
€200,000 for the project ‘Does interdisciplinary education live up to its promises: an evaluation of the added value of interdiscip
GMO bacteria to target tumours
- Researchers
PhD candidate Jella van de Laak on how a genetically modified bacterium fights solid cancer tumours at their oxygen-de
After completing her bachelor’s degree in Maastricht, Wieke began her master’s in Forensics, Criminology and Law. It is a tremendous achievement that, despite her illness, she managed to pass all her courses. She then worked on her thesis with great perseverance until she was no longer able to do so. Wieke had a great sense of justice and stood up for the rights of others. When her boyfriend's phone was stolen and he suggested that the thief had thereby forfeited all rights, she became angry and explained why an alternative view was better.
We remember Wieke as a cheerful and inquisitive student who inspired many fellow students with her optimistic attitude. Few who came into contact with her will forget Wieke: she always remained optimistic and continued to make plans for the future. Those closest to her describe her as a queen of escaping from hopeless situations – until last week. Wieke tried to get everything out of life that there was to get. That is also how we will remember her.
Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Kyle, her parents, her sister and brother and other family members.
On behalf of all staff and students of the Faculty of Law
Jan Smits, Dean
From Wednesday 2 to Tuesday 8 April, room B0.116B of the Oud Gouvernement (Bouillonstraat 1-3) is devoted to the loss of Wieke. Those who wish to pay their respects and write a message in the book of condolences to her family are very much welcome.
Memorial, funeral, beer, and bitterballen on Thursday 3 April, at 14.00, at Natuurbegraafplaats Landgoed Mookerheide, Heumensebaan 18 in Molenhoek. If you would like to bring something, please bring a single, unwrapped flower to send with Wieke.There will also be an opportunity to donate to the Nierstichting.
