The Jan van Eyck Academie offers residencies to artists, designers—ranging from graphic, fashion, to food and social design—, writers, curators and architects from all over the world. Every participant is provided with the time, space and expertise needed to develop their artistic practice in depth. The academy is a place for research and experimentation, as well as a place for (public) debate and cross fertilization. Self-development is tied in with collaboration and exchange.

Its labs,—Food, Material Matters, Photography & Audiovisual, Printing & Publishing, Future Materials—, and library, support the participants in the conceptualisation and realisation of their projects. The Nature Research, Art & Society and Research & Education departments further artistic and academic research, and initiates projects in collaboration with external parties.

Its public programme addresses the topics that feature on the academy’s agenda. Placing the climate urgency central, the Jan van Eyck Academy aims to offer new perspectives and to encourage a conversation about the arts in a world of environmental breakdown.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) is one of the six faculties at Maastricht University. It was founded in 1994. The faculty offers a place where scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds – historians, political scientists, literary and arts scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and others – are brought together in joint research. This interdisciplinary approach is predominant in our teaching as well; all of our programmes acquaint students with different disciplines and perspectives.

The Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) is an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together economic, legal, (art) historical, philosophical, sociological and practical expertise to the context of arts and heritage. In response to the demands of the increasingly complex challenges facing the fields of arts and heritage today, MACCH initiates collaborative research projects with researchers, professionals, and students from diverse backgrounds. MACCH is a joint effort of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law, the School of Business and Economics, the Faculty of Science and Engineering (formerly Faculty of Humanities and Sciences), and the Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg (SHCL) and the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL).

Classical music institutions are faced with challenges. The quality of the performed repertoire tends to be high, but concert attendance is stagnating, audiences are aging, the musical landscape is increasingly hybrid and government subsidies are decreasing. Because of this, the need for innovating the practices of classical music culture has been generally acknowledged. Maastricht University (UM), philharmonie zuidnederland and Zuyd University for Applied Sciences (Zuyd) aspire to support this innovation through the establishment of the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM). The centre aims to study the dynamics behind changing classical music practices and their societal contexts and to actively shape classical music futures. To do so, the MCICM will combine academic research on innovation of performance practices with artistic research to renew classical music practices and music education in artistically relevant ways.

University College Maastricht is an honours liberal arts College of Maastricht University. Whereas in a traditional programme all the courses are laid out and predetermined for the students, at UCM the concept of choice is central. UCM offers students a broad range of courses to choose from, covering all scientific disciplines. As a college student you have the opportunity to develop your own academic preferences and talents and acquire all the expertise and skills to enter a high-quality Master programme. The College provides intensive guidance to help you make the right choices.

Art and creative technology belong in all societies. There is no society without creative talent. The Maastricht Institute of Arts is an open community and an energizing environment in one. A place that encourages you to explore. A place that encourages you to develop and reflect. A place that encourages creativity. The Maastricht Institute of Arts is an intercultural and international workshop. A workshop where you develop your professional skills. Where talent blossoms. A hub in the city and meeting place for people with a variety of outlooks, both converging and diverging. A living, exciting place. Where you are welcome, where you feel at home. Where you come to be inspired by optimism.

How does art become relevant? And what does it mean to claim that artists create knowledge? Engagement and artistic research are the themes of the Research Centre What Art Knows. We develop artistic research as an experimental, intimate ethnography in which systematic sensitivity for the world is fundamental. We stimulate work that explores the riches hidden between opposing clichés about art, society, politics, academia and research. The centre thus functions as an ordinary and a contrary part of the Faculty of Arts of Zuyd University.

At Conservatorium Maastricht, very international in its composition and mindset, we believe in collectivity, in the will to challenge each other and excel ourselves. To add value, in and with music. With talented students, inspiring teachers, our audience, challenging venues, educational institutions, cultural organisations, businesses and municipal and provincial authorities. We like to take the lead in new developments. We aim to inspire, and are always looking for innovation within creation, transfer and performance to stimulate young talent, students and alumni to become excellent and all-round musicians whose energy and creativity offer a valuable contribution to the international world of music and to society.

As a student of The Toneelacademie Maastricht, you work hard – searching for your own power of expression and inspiration. Studying at the Academy requires dedication and enthusiasm. But at the same time the protected environment provided by the Academy gives you the scope to seek for and work towards that final moment when everything comes together: your production, your performance, your direction, your staging. And all that time you’re being encouraged by your instructors and fellow students. The Toneelacademie Maastricht renowned both in the Netherlands and beyond. Countless well-known stage, TV, and film actors trained with us, as did a large number of theatre directors, artistic directors, dramatists, and scriptwriters.