A very heartfelt congratulations to the Maastricht University Faculty of Law Team for the CDRC Vienna - The IBA-VIAC Mediation & Negotiation Competition: Consisting of Natalia Podstawka, Iris Cecconi, Nadien Anindya Hasan, Vera Väresmaa, Anna Haesaert, and wonderfully coached by Joan Duhaylungsod. A very special shout out to Vera and Anna who placed in the Top 3 amongst all of the mediators in the competition.
The team worked extremely hard, balancing school work, actual work, and a wide variety of other hurdles to make it to this point and I cannot be more proud of this incredible team. We are also grateful to our Dean Jan Smits for supporting us, Elke Hundhausen and Britt van Soest for helping us with the logistics, Pauline Melin, our overworked moot competition coordinator, and everyone from our Maastricht community that helped us get to Vienna through your generous support of our bake sale and other Maastricht Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Clinic events.
Thank you everyone and high fives to everyone on the team for performing so admirably (despite my mediocre management)!! 🧡