Events
Coming up on 16 June 2025
Lunch Talk: Enriching policy with academic-driven advocacy: how to bridge the gap
The UM Brussels Hub and European Training Institute, are co-hosting an engaging lunch talk that brings together two perspectives often seen as separate but that, in reality, are complementary and have much to gain from closer collaboration.
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Upcoming events
19.06.2025
Meeting of the EMBRACE consortium
The EU-funded EMBRACE project investigates obstacles to democratisation in the European neighbourhood and identifies ways to overcome them. It examines various types of blockages (behavioural, institutional, structural) and studies the cultural, historical and geopolitical contexts in which they emerge.
16.06.2025
Lunch talk: Enriching policy with academic-driven advocacy: how to bridge the gap
The UM Brussels Hub and European Training Institute, are co-hosting an engaging lunch talk that brings together two perspectives often seen as separate but that, in reality, are complementary and have much to gain from closer collaboration.
05.05.2025
FASoS Workshop The Prediction Machine
In this VENI project, funded by NWO, Jacob Ward uses historical research to investigate how prediction became so important to government and explores the consequences of these predictions on government.
Past events
12.05.2025
SBE Brussels Study trip
The UM Brussels Hub hosted and co-organised the Brussels study trip for master's students from Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Participants came from a diverse set of programmes, including MSc Economics, MSc Economics and Strategy in Emerging Markets, MSc Human Decision Science, MSc Financial Economics, and MSc Economic and Financial Research.
24.03.2025
Kenyan officials visit the Hub (ECPC)
The Hub’s role is also to support the active and engaged UM community with their activities in Brussels, we hosted our colleagues from the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC).
24.03.2025
Study visit (FHML)
We welcomed master students from the FHML's Health and Digital Transformation programme to the Hub as part of their Brussels trip. The Hub team contributed to the creation of the programme and invited Gozde Susuzlu Briggs, Senior Programme Manager at the European Patients' Forum (EPF), to present and share insights from her experience in digital health, and the Data Saves Lives Initiative.
20.03.2025
PRAETORIAN Meeting (FHML)
The PRAETORIAN project organised a midterm meeting at Maastricht University Brussels Hub, where they presented their research progress and showcased significant advancements. This project is funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme.
3-4.02.2025
Kickoff YOUTHreach project (FHML)
The YOUTHReach kick-off meeting took place at the UM Brussels Hub. This project will evaluate and implement three very promising existing interventions to support young people with mental health challenges.
12-13.02.2025
REMIT meeting (FSE)
The REMIT project aims to Reignite Multilateralism via Technology. A reigniting that not only reacts to China’s rise as a systemic technology rival or Russia’s resurgence as a technology abuser or the dominance of large U.S.-based digital platforms, but that sets a clear vision for the future — one in which Europe plays a leading role.
20.02.2025
Capacity Building Programme (UNU-MERIT)
The Capacity Development Office (CDO) of UNU-MERIT was at the Hub for their Migration Management the Gambia Training (MMTG) field trip, which included visits to the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the European Commission Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG Home), as well as a networking lunch at the Hub.
13.03.2025
Alumni Star Lectures
The Alumni Star Lecture are an evening of lifelong learning, reconnecting, and networking for UM alumni across Europe. This year's edition featured a lecture by Prof. Marjan Peeters (Maastricht University Faculty of Law) on the European Green Deal, titled "The European Green Deal: only a Green Dream?" Professor Peeters discussed the legislative actions taken by the European Union to tackle environmental problems such as loss of biodiversity and climate change.
