A small studio was set up in the auditorium on the Minderbroedersberg, from where Rector Pamela Habibović introduced the “best bachelor’s students in the country” and their supervisors. The latter had recorded videos beforehand with their heartfelt praises for their pupils.
European Law School student Evgenia Kokkou received the maximum grade for her thesis from Sjoerd Claessens, programme director at the Faculty of Law. It is the second ten he has given in twenty years. Kokkou wrote about data abuse by online platforms. A thesis, which according to Claessens, could also have held up as a “very good master’s thesis”.
On the other side of the river, it was the women who dominated. They won all four prizes at the Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences. These included student of Health Sciences Anouk Blanken, who delved into the world of psychosocial problems with children who are deaf or hearing-impaired. Alicja Mastylak took gold with the bachelor’s of European Public Health. Her thesis was about motherhood benefits in Poland.
After the last prize, the rector raised her glass of bubbly – “even though it is still early” – and cheered with the prize winners who had joined in the Zoom call during the morning programme.