Extra opportunities

During the Graduate Honours Interdisciplinary Seminars (GHIS) you will meet students from other disciplines in a series of small-scale seminars. Under supervision of leading UU researchers you will study socially relevant themes. These research themes vary from privacy and globalization to DNA and complex systems. You follow one seminar per study period and conclude the year with an interdisciplinary group project. 

GHIS is offered in English and available for all Master’s students from the UU.

Young Innovators is an honours programme for curious and involved students that like to commit to challenges about sustainability and societal wellbeing. You’re a changemaker working for and on a better world. Young Innovators allows you to work in interdisciplinary teams on projects that shape social innovation. 

Young Innovators is offered in English and available for all Master’s students from the UU.

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 dillemas and get a better understanding about 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 has both an English and Dutch track and is available for all Master’s students from the UU.

During the annual Master’s Poster Fair for our two-year Master's programmes, all first- and second-year students present their research via a poster to their lecturers and their fellow students. The topic of the posters differs per year:

• At the end of the first year, the topic will be something you produced during the first year (for instance, a well-written assignment or study).
• At the end of the second year, the topic will be your Master’s thesis.

Along with preparing their own posters, students will also give feedback on the posters of other students during the Poster Fair. Every year, there is one award winner.

In addition to the honour, the winner gets a certificate with a bouquet of flowers.

Masterclass

You will have the opportunity to take a one-week masterclass with international experts, who will present their research and study and comment on your work.

Summer School or internship outside the university

You are encouraged to participate in a Summer School or an internship in an institute outside the University during the elective portion of your studies. This will help broaden your knowledge of theory and methodology and the practice of research. It also offers you the opportunity to make contacts for future positions in the labour market.

Organise a career event

The student representatives of all research orientated Master’s programmes of Utrecht University’s Faculty of Social Sciences organise a career event for the second-year students. Researchers from non-academic institutions will be present.