Current PREMIUM Students

Team Kick-Off Session
 

• Together with your Coach (and ideally Mentor), schedule and attend your team’s Team Kick-Off session to discuss how the team will work together.
• Complete the individual section of the Team Charter beforehand and bring it to the Team Kick-Off.
• Complete the team section of the Team Charter and the canvas together during the Team Kick-Off.
• Send your filled out Team Charter to your Mentor and Coach after the meeting.

Budget
 

• Set up a preliminary budget describing the costs you expect to make throughout the project.
• Send a copy of your preliminary budget to your project mentor (and to your client in case of travelling costs) for approval.
• In case your client approves your team’s travelling costs, make concrete agreements on how your client will reimburse you (see section on reimbursement).
• Assign one team member to email the approved preliminary budget to premium@maastrichtuniversity.nl, with your mentor in the CC.

Fill out the form “Project Scope, Success Criteria and Timeline

• Now that you have had time to meet with your client and Mentor, and have had a chance to dive a bit deeper into the proposed project at hand, fill out the form “Project Scope, Success Criteria and Timeline.
• Send a copy of the form to your Mentor for feedback.
• Revisit the form and timeline during PREMIUM whenever you need to.

Register for, and attend, the mandatory workshops 

• Attend the workshop ‘Discover your Competences’. 
• Attend the workshop ‘Teamwork & Effective Collaboration’.
• Attend the workshop ‘Building High-Performing Teams’.

Second Instagram post

• Sshare on your Instagram the preliminary timeline for your project. 
• Explain what is your team’s first approach to the issue at hand.
• Present the main steps that you are planning to follow in tackling the problem.
• Present your preliminary methodology.

Midterm Presentations 

• Read the section on Midterm Presentations in the (online) student handbook.
• Send in your PowerPoint presentation before the deadline.
• Attend the Midterm Presentation session your team is assigned to (March 17^th or 18^th).

Midterm Project Review Meeting with Mentor 

• Schedule and attend the Midterm Project Review Meeting with your Mentor.
• Fill out the Midterm Review Form individually, and send it to your Mentor at least 48 hrs before the meeting. 

Second meeting with Coach 

• Schedule and attend your second meeting with your Coach.
• Consult with your Coach which components of the PDP (or other logging method) they would like to receive from you, and by which deadline.

Final Peer Feedback “Reflections for the future” 

• Fill out a Peer Feedback Form “Reflections for the future” for every member of your team, or write it in an email, or any other creative format you want to use.
• Send each team member their form before the deadline.
• The goal is to reflect on what your teammate did well, where they can grow, what you learned from them, and to leave them with a warm wish for the future.
• This form is peer-to-peer only and will remain private between you and your team members. 

Closing session with the client and Mentor

• Schedule and prepare a closing session with the client together with your Mentor.
• Present your final deliverable and reflect on the entire project experience.

Finalized budget as part of the reimbursement process 

• Together with your team, set up the finalized budget that describes expenses your team made throughout PREMIUM. Notify your mentor and client and ask them to approve the budget.
• Read the section in your student handbook on the reimbursement process very carefully, so that you hand in the reimbursement forms correctly.
• Hand in reimbursement forms and receipts to the PREMIUM Central Management Team. Note that UM takes 4-8 weeks to process your form.