The new Global Studies Programme is designed
for those people who believe the world is
small enough to fit inside their heads and
soft enough to bear their thumbprints.
And that is what we're starting today: a community
of dreamers and thinkers and doers who want
to, not only understand the world, but shape
it and make a small contribution to making
it a better place.
Welcome to the Global Studies
official opening ceremony.
We want to create a community
with you and for you.
We hope that this programme
will create a foundation
for you to become difference makers.
Complex problems cannot be solved
with a wisdom of one individual discipline alone.
So we've got different specialists
from different disciplines
to come together and design a course that
is purely inter- if not transdisciplinary.
So from Social Psychology to Law,
from Philosophy to Economics.
A programme with six faculties
where Global North and Global South
get connected where students and teachers
learn from each other's point of view.
This is the start of
creating a new network.
It makes you think outside the box.
And that is something that you will cherish later on.
And understanding topical issues
is what you will do in this BA.
Being able to bridge, but also
puzzle together difficult pieces.
I don't want to call out
anyone in particular... sitting right there,
I see you! And she wrote: "Our world
and the people on it are in trouble and I
refuse to stand by and watch. I would like
to join the Global Studies Programme at Maastricht
University because I truly believe with this
study I can help change the future".
