As the summer break approaches, students of UWC Maastricht are ready for a new adventure, with many of them going back to their home countries. However, it’s not only rest and relaxation, it’s also an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on their local communities. These...
Please introduce yourself. Tell us what you have been up to since graduating from UWCM. L: My name is Liana Ioannides and I graduated in May 2023 from UWC Maastricht. I decided to take a gap year and get involved in the peace-building efforts in my...
Can you please introduce yourself to those who do not know you? Of course! My name is Miguel López Rivera, and I’m from Úbeda, a town surrounded by olive trees in southern Spain. I lived there my whole life until I came to UWC Maastricht as...
Escaping the war in Syria with her family when she was little, Sumaya spent her teen years in Turkey, before she made the leap of faith and came to UWC Maastricht! She has always dreamt of being in space and knew she wanted to do something...
Please introduce yourself. My name is Daniela Olmos. I went to UWC Maastricht from 2012 to 2014 after I was selected by the Venezuelan National Committee. When I left my country to go to UWC, I had the idea that I was going to study medicine....
From UWC Maastricht to Yale in the US. Alumnus Miguel has had a whole journey, and it isn’t over yet, as he’s starting his PhD at Harvard after summer! When Miguel was at UWC, from 2018 to 2020, he received a lot of advice from his...
Thanks to her family, Galli exchanged the refugee camp in Algeria for the campus of UWC Maastricht. Galli has been born and raised in the refugee camp, because of the situation in the Western Sahara. She found it nothing more than normal, although now she knows...
Dear UWC Maastricht alumni, Graduation This year's Leaving Class Ceremony in the Maastricht MECC saw the graduation of no less than 191 UWC Maastricht students. This was our largest graduating class to date, and it included the seventeen pioneering students of our new IB Career-related Programme in...
Please introduce yourself. My name is Christine Alhalabi. I am from Syria. I graduated from UWCM in 2019, and I have just graduated from Bard College Berlin. When I think about UWCM, the first thing that comes to mind is the art classroom. Taking visual arts...
The Knooppunt team, together with 10 volunteering students of UWC Maastricht, organized this day and welcomed 80 students and their teachers from local schools to our campus! The aim of this day was for the guest students to experience what a “UWC education” is like, to...
