The project also aims to explore the feasibility of the application of RBL methodologies more generally across the curriculum, thus putting an emphasis on the research side of studying, in addition to Maastricht University’s famous traditional teaching system, Problem-Based Learning. This year, various projects in all faculties of the university will start. A kickoff conference, held at Maastricht University on April 1, 2009, marked the official beginning of MARBLE.

Maastricht University: innovating education

• Maastricht University is internationally renowned for its educational innovations (such as Problem-Based Learning);
• Research-Based Learning is a new form of education which the university would like to foster and expand with the Sirius program acting as an incentive;
• The MARBLE project focuses on Research-Based Learning: small groups of students (circa 12 students per group) work together with scientists and researchers on research projects for the duration of one semester;
• The link between research and learning is emphasized in MARBLE;
• Social relevance also plays a role (the value of teamwork and collaboration, exchanging knowledge, the relevance of research to the wider community etc.);
•  Participating students are secondand third-year Bachelor students;
• The activities related to MARBLE are embedded in the study programs’ curricula;
• The projects run for one semester (20 weeks) and cover 15 ECTS; Students learn to think and act like a researcher in the process (e.g. by writing research proposals and learning research methodologies);
• The research projects are associated with existing research projects within the university. Interdisciplinary collaborations are stimulated and very welcome;
• University College Maastricht uses a slightly different format, called PEERS: 10 ECTS projects with the possibility of adding more semesters.

MARBLE Projects Academic Year 2009-2010 (Faculty – Title – Start)

• School of Business and Economics: Research in Finance (Sept. 2009)
• School of Business and Economics: Supply chain managment (Feb. 2010)
• School of Business and Economics: Strategy (Sept. 2009)
• School of Business and Economics: Strategic Interaction (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Capitals of Culture (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Constructing privilege in the world economy. Critical study of trade agreements (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Sustainable sanitation (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Who speaks for Europe in EU external relations? (April 2010)
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: De strijd om de Sint Pietersberg (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Law: MARBLE Toga-minor (Sept. 2009)
• Faculty of Law: Invloed van het Ius Commune op de rechtspraak van de beide Hooggerechten en van het college van Commissarissen-Deciseurs te Maastricht (Sept. 2009)
• Faculty of Law: The Protection of National Cultural Heritage in the global and digital age (Feb. 2010)
• Faculty of Pscyhology and Neuroscience: Voortzetting research practicum (Feb. 2010)
• Department of Knowledge Engineering: Humanoid Robots (Sept. 2009) FPN/FASOS/UCM: Virtuality (Starts as UCM PEERS project September 2009)

UCM: PEERS Projects Academic year 2009-2010, Fall Semester (Title In cooperation with:)

• Vulnerable People: Poverty, Illegal Migration and HIV/AIDS (Re-)Examined Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Virtuality FASOS, FPN, UCM
• Paying the Public Sector: Conceptions of Distributive Justice in Public Sector Remuneration – UCM
• Humanoid Robots Department of Knowledge Engineering
• Perspectives in Integrated Water Resources Management in River Deltas International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development
• Neurodegenerative and neuroimmunological disorders Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

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Ellen Bastiaens
Projectleider Siriusprogramma
e-mail: Ellen.bastiaens@maastrichtuniversity.nl