Samenvatting

Currently there are round about 94,236 international students in the Netherlands following an international studies at a university or a University of Applied Sciences. This number is growing each year but recently some of these international students struggle due to the missing inter-personal relationship to the faculties they are studying at. Furthermore, the whole world is facing the COVID-19 virus for nearly two years already which makes it even harder to build up interpersonal relationships. For international students, this is a pity because they come to the Netherlands for the full study experiences, which includes an interpersonal relationship with the faculties they are studying at, their fellow students and all other people in the Netherlands. In the whole Netherlands, students mention mental health issues due to the lockdowns and the not existing interpersonal relationship. They can barely visit their family and friends in their home country and struggle to build up connections to the Dutch people.