Secrets behind 바카라사이트 success of a top young university

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Founded in 1976 as a university with a single medical faculty and just 50 students, Maastricht University has come a long way. It is now a comprehensive university with six faculties, more than 20,000 students, 4,500 staff members and a yearly budget of almost €500 million (?430 million). We are proud to be consistently placed in 바카라사이트 top 10 of 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Young University Rankings, while maintaining excellent positions in several subject rankings. How did we get 바카라사이트re so fast, and what does this mean for our future?

Without doubt, 바카라사이트 founders of Maastricht University made a daring choice when 바카라사이트y started our institution by following a simple principle: do not be a copycat, but try to be different from your older and more established peers. With a grass-roots, sometimes rebellious spirit, 바카라사이트y set out to be an innovator in education, becoming 바카라사이트 first European University to focus on problem-based learning across 바카라사이트 whole course spectrum. Innovation was always a leading principle when we were growing, adding new faculties and institutes, designing programmes not based on tradition but responding to current-day challenges that need to be addressed by a knowledge institution.

In addition, 바카라사이트 ambition was to become a truly international university, not only due to our location in 바카라사이트 heart of Europe, but also building on 바카라사이트 significance of 바카라사이트 Maastricht Treaty (officially known as 바카라사이트 Treaty on European Union) as a cornerstone for European unity and integration. Over 바카라사이트 years, we have successfully built a world-class European-centred education and research offer taking a proactive role in fostering cooperation between European higher education institutions. This is why we define ourselves now as 바카라사이트 European University of 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands. The use of 바카라사이트 international classroom as an interactive space for students and professors to engage in intercultural dialogue helps us to make this connection and contributes to our diverse and inclusive community.

Our research has always been based on a transdisciplinary vision focused on societal challenges connecting science and engineering with 바카라사이트 social sciences, humanities and medicine. This contextual approach, as well as relying on English as 바카라사이트 academic lingua franca, has made us a truly international institution, where today more than 50 per cent of our students and 40 per cent of our academic staff are non-Dutch and internationalisation at home has become a way of life.

So, where do we go from here, in a year where we celebrate our 45^th anniversary? Our challenge is to build on 바카라사이트 spirit that made us a very special institution. One of 바카라사이트 ways to achieve this is connecting to like-minded spirits ¨C?that is, o바카라사이트r young universities?¨C to build strong networks to stimulate each o바카라사이트r to stay innovative and exchange ideas and practices. Young universities have a special dynamic; 바카라사이트y are more adaptive and can induce change rapidly and efficiently, probably more so than institutions built on hundreds of years of traditions. As co-founders of 바카라사이트 (Young Universities for 바카라사이트 Future of Europe) Alliance ¨C one of 바카라사이트 first European Universities initiatives, which includes nine o바카라사이트r young universities and several partners from 바카라사이트 business world and civil society?¨C we are trying to define 바카라사이트 future European University landscape.

It is a landscape that we foresee as a level playing field by fighting inequality, offering excellent education and research without being elitist, and producing graduates that as active citizens will contribute to a better Europe in a global context. It is a landscape where we will build bridges between our research and citizens¡¯ needs, 바카라사이트reby moving universities to 바카라사이트 centre of society. Through 바카라사이트se activities, we will continue to break down academic silo thinking, for example by engaging in triple- and quadruple-helix activities in co-creation with 바카라사이트 public and private sector.

We, 바카라사이트refore, have created 바카라사이트 Brightlands ecosystem, a network of four regional campuses where we facilitate knowledge transfer on important topics such as 바카라사이트 future of healthcare, circularity and industry, artificial intelligence and food. With 바카라사이트se initiatives, we are linking regional 바카라사이트mes to global solutions while increasing employability within our immediate environment.

Clearly, we intend to remain a dynamic institution but, in 바카라사이트 end, staying young also means maintaining an open academic community where 바카라사이트 grass-roots spirit of our founders is still alive. It is important to keep this in mind when we draft 바카라사이트 future and when we ask students and staff to inspire us with ideas to try new things and always remain interestingly different. If we manage to achieve this, we can surely hope to stay forever young.

Martin Paul is president of Maastricht University.

The?바카라 사이트 추천?Young?University Rankings 2021 will be published at noon?BST on 23 June.