University Maastricht:knowledge centre for foreigners

The Universiteit Maastricht is going to set up a knowledge centre for its employees from abroad. From 1 September, it will be the place where they can find help with questions about insurance, residence permits, labour regulations, but also about life in Maastricht. The centre is being set up because more and more UM employees are from abroad and not all faculties are able to provide adequate help arranging practical matters. The faculties that are already helping their foreign employees have had to invent the wheel. The UM wants to arrange this centrally now, also to avoid faculties telling different stories, for example about recent changes in the health care insurance scheme. "We had many questions and we could see that the information that circulated varied," explains Appie Luermans, director of Personnel and Organisation. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news