Alumni

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...

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....

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...

Can you please introduce yourself? I go by Lars in English now, while I used to go by Štěpán when at UWC, which I recognise can be a little confusing. I am from Czechia and I graduated from UWCM in 2014. While at UWCM, TEDx Maastricht...

Many UWC alumni came (back) to the UWCM campus to support the graduating students by co-facilitating the Outroduction workshops. What motivated them to come back and what was it like? Let them tell you! I am Giomar, UWCM 2017, and the reason I came back is...

Please introduce yourself and tell us what you have been up to since graduating from UWC Maastricht in 2016. My name is Cátia Dombaxe. I am Angolan and I lived most of my pre-UWC life in Angola. I used to attend a catholic school and that’s...

Please introduce yourself. My name is Christelle Yaméogo, I am from Burkina Faso which is in West Africa. I am a UWC Maastricht alumna from the Class 2021. Now, in December 2023 I got a chance to visit the UWCM campus and accepted the invitation to...