Extra opportunities

Are you interested in more than just one of our Master’s programme? Do you want to look across the boundary of your programme and combine it with another? Are you an excellent student and looking for an extra challenge? In this Honours programme you effectively take two Master’s programmes within the Graduate School of Natural Sciences at the same time.

First-year Master’s students of the Utrecht University Graduate School of Natural Sciences (GS-NS) or Life Sciences (GS-LS) can enroll in the QBio honours programme while continuing their Master’s programme.

Today’s global and local challenges are becoming more complex, often feeding into more broad and dynamic collaborations. The G.H.I.S programme is designed for open-minded students who want to develop interdisciplinary research skills that help combat these complicated challenges.

During a series of small-scale seminars led by leading UU researchers, GHIS facilitates the joint exploration of diverse perspectives in real-life case studies.  You follow one seminar per study period and conclude the year with an interdisciplinary group project. 

GHIS is offered in English and is available to all UU Master’s students.

The Young Innovators programme is about making a change towards regenerativity. A regenerative society affirms life, and cares for the earth and its diverse communities. The programme brings together reflexive personal leadership with community-based changemaking, giving you useful knowledge and tools towards making caring changes to the world.

The programme offers practical workshops on topics such as social innovation, reflexive learning, dialogue and change-making, and decolonisation. Based on creative and action-oriented research in diverse groups of international students, Young Innovators works with outside communities on real issues to achieve change.

Young Innovators is offered in English and is available to all UU Master’s students.

In the  Leadership programme you discover what kind of leader you are or want to be. You apply knowledge from different disciplines to real leadership dilemmas and get a better understanding of what it means to be a leader in a globalising world. You follow workshops (i.a. public speaking skills, conflict management) taught by experts ranging from UU professors and external lecturers.

During the interactive and intimate College Tours you can engage with leaders from different domains in society. You finish the year by working with a leader as part of the Leader to Shadow component. 

The Leadership Programme is primarily offered in English. However, some elements can be offered in Dutch for students who prefer it. The leadership programme is available to all UU Master’s students.

As a participant of UniCity you’ll join a continuous urban research project in which students form a close-knit research group with a high degree of autonomy. Together you will research what goes on in Utrecht in all its diversity and dynamism by observing social activities, spatial surroundings, and the ecology of the city.

As a collective of students, residents, and researchers, you’ll embark on a journey to explore the complex relationships within the city, bridge disciplines and societal perspectives, and create products that make academic insights accessible to wider audiences.

UniCity is offered in Dutch and is available to all UU Master’s students.