PREMIUM Finishers website
Dear PREMIUM students,
Congratulations on the completion of your PREMIUM projects and journeys, and thank you all for another great year of PREMIUM. It was a year in which we were very happy to be able to meet our students back on campus, a year that allowed for new and genuine connections, but also a year that required from each of us to find again some balance in life and the possibilities that all of a sudden are available again.
We want to thank you and applaud you for your flexibility, self management skills and creative problem solving. We hope all the valuable lessons you learned, the useful knowledge you gained, and all the skills you (further) developed, serve you well in all your future endeavors.
Kind regards,
PREMIUM Central Management Team
Honorable mentions
During the PREMIUM programme, students are required to attend a minimum of 6 workshops, aimed to further enhance their professional skill-set. However, we encourage students to attend more workshops if they want to go the famous “extra mile”.
Congratulations to the students that took a chance and decided to go the “extra mile” fully by participating in the most workshops and Pop-Up events.
On the podium, the big winner of this year: Puck Slaats (FHML) who attended a total of 12 workshops and 4 Pop-Up Events.
We also congratulate Laura Wallossek (FPN) who attended a total 10 workshops and 3 Pop-Up Events and Julia Greis (FPN), attending 10 workshops and 3 Pop-Up Events. Well done everyone, for choosing to fully commit to enhancing your set of skills and developing new ones!
PREMIUM team successes
The PREMIUM programme is yearly concluded with an official closing meeting between students and clients, during which each team presents their project outcomes to their client. Next to that, we celebrate the closing of the programme with a festive Closing event, aimed at community building, celebrating team successes and festively bringing PREMIUM to a close. By means of this page, we want to further highlight our students’ achievements.
Below, you can find an overview of each team’s progress by means of their Tumblr page, an impression of their PREMIUM journey, and we announce and celebrate the teams that win the Tumblr awards.
The 2020-2021 PREMIUM project teams
AppsForce
Project Aim: Help this innovative AI and software development company in defining a growth strategy for a digital innovation hub.
Atos
Project Aim: Join this IT organization in their challenge to define the topic of Digital Sovereignty.
Capgemini
Project Aim: Help the biggest European Consultancy firm diving deeper into topic such as diversity & inclusion and organisational transformation, and see how it can affect their business potential.
Ecovadis
Project Aim: Help the world’s largest provider of business sustainability ratings, in carrying out market research and define a proposal on how to best seize the opportunity the German and European Supply Chain Due Diligence Act might hold.
EKwadraat
Project Aim: Help this consultancy firm to design a framework for decentralised regional and local energy hubs, in a bid to transfer from fossil to sustainable energy.
EQUANS
Project Aim: Help this market leader in global energy and services to ensure optimal brand image and creating new business solutions at a higher level in the value chain.
Farma ter Verantwoording-UAEM
Project Aim: Analyze the highly topical case of inequitable Covid-19 vaccine distribution in order to monitor the practices of pharmaceutical companies in their marketing and development of Covid-19 vaccines according to their human rights responsibilities.
Foodtech Brainport
Project Aim: Investigate how this food processing factory can create more value for their community and realize new business models for valorizing side streams that prevent food waste.
Happy2learn
Project Aim: Help this social startup in developing an interactive guide to help students and young professionals find relevant information to career happiness.
INATBA
Project Aim: Help this International trade association in Blockchain applications, to discover any differences between how they market their value proposition to what members actually take away (or lack) when joining the association.
IRIS DESIREE CLAESSENS
Project Aim: Help this Dutch sustainable jewelry designer to develop a growth strategy and to take her label to the next level.
ITEM
Project Aim: Conduct an impact assessment on the topic of cross-border effects of the Dutch policy framework on reducing nitrogen emissions.
Key2advance
Project Aim: Investigate how retreats focusing on “Self” can be used for different audiences and how it may be constructed into a viable business plan.
Maneuvre.co
Project Aim: Help this strategy firm to develop a holistic guide for new entrepreneurs.
Marres
Project Aim: Explore to what extent sensory knowledge is used in fields of work, and how knowledge of sense and training in senses can be beneficial to the way we work.
Politie Limburg
Project Aim: Help the Limburg Police in creating a sustainable cross-border strategy in tackling the problem of drug waste dumping in nature.
Porta Mosana
Project Aim: Develop a set of hands-on workshops oriented towards Global Citizenship Education for a bi-lingual secondary school in Maastricht.
Stedin
Project Aim: Help this change-office of a grid provider to create a tool, measure or intervention that they can apply in their change portfolio to help their workforce adapt to change in the workplace.
SSC Refugees
Project Aim: Help this department of the SSC to develop a plan for UM’s Executive Board that will help students who become refugees during their studies.
Trends4fi
Project Aim: Research the dynamics of donating artworks and art collections by charitable cultural organizations, and money laundering and tax evasion risks that come into play.