PREMIUM Clients

PREMIUM offers motivated and high-performing master’s students at Maastricht University the unique opportunity to execute a project for a (local) client, aiming to bridge the gap between study and career and prepare students to enter the labour market upon graduation. Are you a business owner or employee in a public, commercial, or non-governmental organization and do you have a project you would like an interdisciplinary team of excellent PREMIUM students to tackle?

 

  • Propose a Project to PREMIUM

    The deadline for sending in PREMIUM project proposals for the 2025-2026 academic year, is September 30th. In case you wish to discuss a potential PREMIUM project proposal, 
    please contact premium@maastrichtuniversity.nl 

    You can put forward your PREMIUM project proposal by filling out the project proposal form and sending it to premium@maastrichtuniversity.nl or directly to your faculty coordinator.

    Once your project is selected for PREMIUM, we allow you to have a say in forming your own student team during our festive PREMIUM opening, the Mix&Match.
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  • A true PREMIUM Project must:

    • be a challenge, have relevance, and pushes students out of their comfort zone;
    • allow for students to have enough of their own input in the project at its deliverable, to foster creativity and innovation;
    • call for an innovative solution;
    • allow and facilitate an interdisciplinary approach;
    • require a time investment of 150 hours per student;
    • be flexible enough to expand or simplify, if necessary.

     
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    PREMIUM offers:

    • Against limited investment a complex assignment is carried out by excellent, well-prepared master’s students under the supervision of a project mentor (a UM employee).
    • Each student commits to a workload of 250 hours over the course of 5 months (January-May), of which at least 150 hours are estimated to be spent on project execution. Depending on the size of the team assigned to your project, PREMIUM offers 600 to 900 hours of effort put towards your project:
    • A team of 4-6 motivated master’s students assigned to your project;
    • A UM employee to act as project mentor to guide students through project execution and your primary PREMIUM contact person.
    • A multidisciplinary analysis of the issue;
    • A blend of knowledge providing you with fresh innovative input and out-of-the-box ideas;
    • The chance to invest in students by offering them a learning environment;
    • The opportunity to experiment with new skills and behaviour;
    • The opportunity to scout talent!

     
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  • PREMIUM expects:

    • PREMIUM aims to enable students to:
    • Gain valuable insight into their strengths and development areas;
    • Improve their performance and competencies;
    • Learn how to work as part of a multidisciplinary team;
    • Learn how to work to a tight schedule;
    • Learn how to manage Clients’ expectations.
    • In order to realize these goals and to provide Clients with the best possible outcome for their project, we would like to clearly communicate what PREMIUM has to offer as well as what we would like to receive in return from all Clients.
    • A PREMIUM client is expected to be involved with PREMIUM.
    • Clients confirm a clear project objective and agree to the collectively set up plan for project execution;
    • Clients adequately provide the student team with the necessary information for project execution;
    • Students, coaches, mentors, and the PREMIUM Central Management Team would highly appreciate your presence at our central events: the Kick-Off  in January, the Midterm Presentations in March, and the festive Closing Event in May.
    • Clients are expected to spend approximately 2 hours per week on PREMIUM during project execution.
    • Clients are required to reimburse students for any business trips/transportation fees the students are requested to do by the client.
    • Please note that PREMIUM is not an internship. Students do not need extensive supervision or a working space at your organization. PREMIUM students are to be seen as consultants.
    • For more information about PREMIUM and what we expect from an external partner, please send us a message via premium@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

     
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    The Role of a PREMIUM Client

    A client adopts the role of a more formal client or a co-creator. 

    • A formal client provides an assignment and perceives the team of students as consultants doing a job for them. The formal client provides guidance and supports the team with feedback, but is not actively involved in project execution.

    • A co-creator might join the team for brainstorm sessions, meetings, and preparatory sessions. The co-creator is more actively involved in/during the project execution. 

       

     
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  • 2022 was the 4th year that we as Atos have participated in the PREMIUM program. It was again a pleasure to work with you and Bas as mentors and managers of the team and the program; and this year’s team was again excellent. FiveYoung ambitious hard working, intelligent people with a vast array of skills, combined in a consulting project for Atos to deliver a presentation and report around Digital Sovereignty. On Atos side we have engaged a lot of people from various backgrounds and locations and the feedback from them about the team has been very positive, as well. The final presentation was well attended and well received. We hope we can continue our collaboration.

    Wilbert van der Kruk
    Cloud Transformation Advisor
    Atos
     

     
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  • Maarten Schrevel

    Right at the beginning, these young ladies asked us whether they could call themselves the ‘four COMMEETeers’, and this aptly sums up their enthusiastic approach. It was a real pleasure for me to work with them. Despite Corona they kept working steadily and accurately, always keeping us informed about their progress. They did a super job: their analysis was spot-on and their recommendations extremely useful. We are forever grateful for what they did for us and we could not have wished for a better team to help move COMMEET forward. We are fortunate that all four COMMEETeers have indicated they wish to stay involved with COMMEET!

    Maarten Schrevel
    Secretary
    COMMEET
     

     

  • Being a client for PREMIUM has been a game changer for us at Key2advance. Having six outstanding Master-students contribute to our project has accelerated our progress tremendously. The professional and heartfelt organisation from the team at EDLAB has furthermore made the experience easy and enjoyable. We highly recommend any organisation that is looking for a creative way to boost their project to join!

    Mona Shair-Wloch
    Founding Manager & Director Key2advance

    Martin van de Pas
    Head Career Services & Trainer Key2advance
     

     
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  • ing-mumc

    For the first time MUMC+ and ING had a joint assignment for the students: to map innovative companies and eco-systems in hospital and elderly care and to develop an assessment tool for these innovations. Despite difficult circumstances (COVID-19), they did a great job. Thanks to the entire team. Good luck with your study and next steps in career. This was a great experience working together with ING from our health innovation lab. Looking forward to start using the evaluation tool Mika, Daniel, Anna, Clara, Danila and Maureen developed. The best part: our first meeting live at La Barceloneta! Thanks all!

    Raymond Smeets
    Relatiemanager Gezondheidszorg en Publieke domein
    ING

    Nicole van Eldik
    Kinderarts en programmamanager eHealth
    MUMC+
     

     


  • Every year, a new PREMIUM team comes to Marres to explore a project devoted to sensorial knowledge. It is a great pleasure to meet students from various disciplines, to coach them on what we know and have them teach us on their findings within their research. The projects invariably stress the importance of knowledge gained by the senses and body, and it is rewarding to see participants embrace this as part of their learning careers even though it is not part of the conventional academic curriculum. We trust that the PREMIUM experience will guide them also in future learning and careers. And we are also very proud that our teams have won several times the PREMIUM programme creativity award.

    Ilse van Lieshout
    hoofd educatie afdeling
    Marres
     

     
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