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Welcome to our new website
We are glad you found your way to our new website. Let us just take a minute to inform you about the people in blue you will be seeing during the election week all around Maastricht University. We are DOPE, Maastricht’s biggest student representation party.
DOPE is an abbreviation for “Deskundige, Ongebonden, Pragmatische Eenheid” which is Dutch for professional, independent, pragmatic unity. We are the largest and most influential student representation party active at Maastricht University. Being the only party active on all faculties, we have gained 6 out of the total of 9 University Council seats. Our -University broad orientation and -over 25-years of experience provides DOPE with an immense knowledge base, helping us to perform at our very best at University-broad discussions at hand.
With our website we hope to achieve one of our goals which is to inform the students of Maastricht University. When you take a look at our menu the first thing you will notice is the prominence of the elections. This is because in the third week of May, between the 21st and the 25th of May, you as a student have the opportunity to vote for your representatives. In the menu you can see that we have briefly stated why DOPE is the best vote. Furthermore, you can look at our candidates and read through our election program to inform yourself on our views for the future of Maastricht University. If at the end you are ready to cast your vote, just click on the button and it will redirect you to the voting website.
For more information on DOPE go to ‘About DOPE’. There you can find information on our history, party vision and an agenda of upcoming activities.
The representatives you elect will become student members of the University- our Faculty Council. In the respective menu tabs you will find more information the workings of these councils and your elected representatives.
If you browse through our media archive you will find old photos of DOPE activities, newspaper articles related to DOPE, videos and important documents like the Higher Education and Scientic Research Act in which the rights for student representation are laid down.
Interested in becoming a member of DOPE? In the ‘Join DOPE’ tab you will find information on the possibilities we provide our members, our activities and some interesting extras if you become a member.
In short, we hope that everything you need is on our website. If you have any questions, ideas or remarks you are welcome to mail them to dope@maastrichtuniversity.nl
