UCF Community: meet our Student Ambassadors

From finding the perfect programme and finishing your application to enrolling at the University of Groningen. Who knows better how to help you with all of this then our current students? 1st year UCF student Iiris Väyrynen came up with the idea of the UCF Student Ambassadors: current UCF students who are there to help everybody who's interested in applying to the programme with questions they would like to ask to our students. Fellow 1st year student Koen shares his own journey to Leeuwarden and offers his support as one of our student ambassadors:

My name is Koen Pouw and I’m currently a first-year student of Global Responsibility & Leadership at University College Fryslân in Leeuwarden. Before moving to Leeuwarden, I lived in Zeewolde, Flevoland, the Netherlands. After doing my final high school VWO exams in 2019, I immediately started my studies here in Leeuwarden.  
Global Responsibility & Leadership caught my interest due to its interdisciplinary nature and flexibility, focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals set up by the United Nations. As I mentioned before, the programme is very interdisciplinary and diverse. For me, before applying to this programme, I therefore had quite some questions about the programme itself and was curious to hear about experiences of current GRL students. Do you have questions about what it’s like to study Global Responsibility & Leadership and are you curious about student life in Leeuwarden? The UCF community is here to answer all your questions you might have! Please, do not hesitate to contact me and I’ll try my best to answer any question that you can think of!