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Climate change demands bold leadership and legal action. This programme prepares future leaders to tackle environmental crises through international law, human rights, and sustainable development policy.

Explore the evolution of the European Union, from integration and human rights protection to present-day global challenges, in a study abroad programme bridging politics, law, and economics.

Maastricht forms a unique environment for studying psychology and neuroscience. Maastricht University (UM) specialises in cognitive and biological psychology and its unique research infrastructure enables groundbreaking study of the brain and behaviour.

In a world of converging cultures and different political and legal systems, students in this programme will explore how policy-makers negotiate between member states with a range of different nationalities, languages and agendas.

In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty led to the creation of the European Union (EU) with its motto “Unity in Diversity”, but what is European identity? How do the shared lessons of the past teach us about the continent’s contemporary challenges?

The European Union is a major global trading power. With the introduction of the Euro and EU enlargement, key steps towards integration were taken to increase European prosperity and competitiveness. 

On 23 and 24 October 2025, the Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences will organise – in collaboration with several partners within and outside the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University – a multidisciplinary two day-conference in Maastricht on “Truth and Authority in Criminal Justice”.