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Yvonne van der Meer new president KNCV
Monday, June 27, 2022
At the Annual General Meeting (ALV) on June 21, 2022, Prof. Yvonne van der Meer was appointed President of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society.
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UM is taking steps to integrate sustainability into core course curricula
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Sustainable UM 2030 has awarded three projects with a sustainability grant for education to further integrate sustainability into the course curricula.
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MSI: frontrunner in sustainability
Monday, May 30, 2022
Are we really making progress towards the sustainable transition? One thing is clear: if we’re not, it’s not the fault of sustainability science.
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Turning down the thermostat a few degrees: good for the climate, your body and your wallet
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
With gas prices skyrocketing due to the problems in Russia and Ukraine, we are suddenly forced to face the facts: we need to be more frugal with energy!
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Why does even the biggest climate denier need to make his home more sustainable?
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
With today's energy prices, you almost don't dare turn on your heating. Yet for many, solar panels and a heat pump still sound like an expensive joke.
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A second chance for plastic
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
If we were to replace plastic with paper or glass, would the environment benefit? Surprisingly, no, says professor of Circular Plastics Kim Ragaert. She is calling for an alternative approach aimed at increasing awareness of and knowledge about recycling.
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Towards a healthier countryside
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Scientists from Maastricht University will lead a major research program into the health effects of climate adaptation in rural areas. In this programme, MANTRA, researchers from Maastricht University, Radboud University, Wageningen University & Research, Leiden University of Applied Sciences, RIVM, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Naturalis are joining forces.
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Healthiest university building is in Maastricht
Friday, March 11, 2022
Maastricht University is the healthiest university in Europe!
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SBE Dean Peter Møllgaard announces departure to join the University of Southern Denmark
Monday, March 7, 2022
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A part-time dog is good for your health and the environment
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Een huisdier is niet alleen goed voor het hart, maar maakt ook gelukkiger.
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9.6 million Euros boost to transition to a circular economy
Thursday, February 24, 2022
The new international research and demonstration project SYSCHEMIQ is receiving a €9.6 million financial boost from the European Union’s Horizon Green Deal program. The program is intended to facilitate the systemic transition to a circular economy in the region.
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Holacracy driving Sustainable Future Winners
Friday, January 14, 2022
How can business respond faster, better, effective, and efficient to the challenges of our times? The winners of the future experiment with new organisational concepts
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Just a COPout?
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Laura von Allwörden went to Glasgow to watch the over-caffeinated delegates of the COP26 try to clean the Augean stables that is global multilateral decision-making in order to save the world.
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“How sustainable is it? That is the question”
Friday, December 3, 2021
Professor Yvonne van der Meer is investigating how companies can improve the sustainability of their products. She analyses every material, exposing the lifecycle in its entirety.
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Being at COP26 as an outsider: Rana Orhan reflects
Thursday, December 2, 2021
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Multi-million investment jump-starts ambitious Dutch mobility programme
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Two large consortia of Dutch companies and knowledge institutes in the mobility and transport sector will receive 47 million euros in government funding to realize breakthroughs in electrification and hydrogen applications in automotive, maritime and air transport.
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Focus on sustainability is an important element in MaastrichtMBA programme
Friday, November 26, 2021
MBA programma’s besteden doorgaans veel aandacht aan de P van Profit. Het MaastrichtMBA programma gaat een stap verder, en heeft naast de P van Profit de focus op de P’s van Planet en People op een gelijkwaardige manier geïntegreerd in het curriculum.
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New plasmalab enables sustainable future for chemical industry
Thursday, November 18, 2021
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Stock exchange companies must take more responsibility for negative externalities
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Dutch listed companies must take responsibility for the negative effects that their business activities and supply chain have on people and the planet by aligning their business strategy much more than is currently the case with planetary boundaries. This not only concerns slowing down climate change, but also, for example, combating the loss of biodiversity and the need to think and act in a circular manner.
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A more sustainable economy? Make way for challengers!
Monday, October 25, 2021
Between climate change, inequality of opportunity, and a global pandemic, our world is facing major challenges. A sustainable and stable economy is desperately needed, argues Mark Sanders, Professor of International Economics at Maastricht University.
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Give your bike a second life
Friday, October 22, 2021
Fietsbank Maastricht collects redundant bikes and repairs them for people with a small budget.
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Plasmalab takes step towards sustainable chemistry with EZK subsidy
Thursday, October 7, 2021
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Yvonne van der Meer talks about sustainability
Thursday, September 30, 2021
How to make the most sustainable product choice
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Rethinking Plastic House
Monday, September 20, 2021
AMIBM part of 'Rethinking Plastic House' to raise awareness for sustainable plastics.
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30% of tree species worldwide threatened with extinction
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
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‘A new way of thinking’
Thursday, July 22, 2021
In the new bachelor’s program, Circular Engineering, students learn how to design production processes in different industries as circularly as possible.
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Seed Fund for Sustainability Research Spearheads
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
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Degrowth getting bigger
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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Pension fund more green thanks to participants
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Participants in Pensioenfonds Detailhandel want sustainable investments, even if this yields less investment return. This is evident from research by Maastricht University in 2018, and was confirmed during a second study in 2020.
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VerDus-Synthesis Study: Urban Sustainability Transitions: Energy, Climate, & Circularity
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
How do we involve citizens in the sustainability transition? When do they start participating? What solutions could reliably count on wide public support and how do we find these? What implications could such an approach have for governmental practices? What barriers do sustainable solutions encounter at the institutional level and how could these be overcome?
By synthesizing the results of twelve different research projects, Joop de Kraker and René Kemp (Maastricht Sustainability Institute) try to provide answers to questions like these.
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Looking for the Netherlands' best agrifood-idea
Friday, March 5, 2021
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UM asks ABP for more sustainable policy
Thursday, February 25, 2021
In a letter to pension fund ABP (which manages the pensions of UM employees) Maastricht University is asking for a planned approach that will allow the fund to cut ties with sectors with a commitment to fossil fuels as soon as possible. "The climate crisis is one of the greatest threats to our global society," writes the Executive Board.
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Maastricht University involved in Green Deal proposals to address the climate crisis
Monday, February 8, 2021
Researchers from Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics (SBE) are involved in eight proposals for the European Commission’s Green Deal call, which was launched last year.
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Engineer of the future brings green chemistry a step closer
Monday, January 18, 2021
The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) at Maastricht University (UM) will begin offering a new bachelor's programme in ‘Circular Engineering’ in September 2021. This course will provide in a new kind of engineer, trained not just in one field, but in a wide variety of disciplines.
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How businesses can help build a more sustainable world – Nancy Bocken
Friday, January 15, 2021
To tackle urgent planetary challenges such as resource depletion and climate change, we need to fundamentally rethink the way we do business. As part of her research, Professor Nancy Bocken explores how companies might experiment with new sustainable business models, contributing to a more sustainable world.
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‘Power to the farmers’
Thursday, January 14, 2021
UM students Vincent and Laura Nieboer, inspired by their father, came up with an accessible concept to help farmers worldwide stop the depletion of agricultural land. They recently pitched their idea at the ‘Little big talks’ on the occasion of the celebration of 80 years of materials science and innovation at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen.
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Ecosia now default on 800 Student Desktops
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
From 15 January, the sustainable search engine Ecosia will be set as the default on 800 Student Desktops (SDT) in both library locations and the Randwyck Computer Facilities. It is also available for installation on every other UM work station. Ecosia generates income through their search ads, which they use to plant trees.
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Students win 50,000 euro in Young Plastic Pollution Challenge
Monday, January 11, 2021
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MaastrichtMBA among the world’s best sustainable MBAs
Friday, November 13, 2020
UMIO’s MaastrichtMBA programme moves up the grade on sustainable development as it impressively managed to rank 16th globally in the newly published 2020 Better World MBA Ranking organised by Corporate Knights.
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UM PhD student solves major waste collection problem in Ghana
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Through his research, Kwaku Oduro-Appiah, PhD candidate at Maastricht University, has succeeded in making a spectacular contribution to solving the problems of waste collection and processing in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
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BREEAM certificate for Maastricht University
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Maastricht University has achieved the highest attainable sustainability qualification with its renovation of the former Tapijn barracks. The building will receive a "BREEAM-NL Excellent" quality mark for this.
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Working together to build new circular value chains
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Setting up a new value chain from agro to chemistry is a challenge Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen and Brightlands Greenport Campus in Venlo are currently working on together.
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UM cooperates in development of sustainable heating network
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
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Science and the oil industry: an intimate relationship
Thursday, May 28, 2020
The entanglement between science and the oil industry is also of the pillars of Mody’s research on how to deal with sustainability in times of scarcity, for which he recently received a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Sustainability goes beyond “the green stuff”
Friday, April 17, 2020
When it comes to teaching about sustainability, you need an interdisciplinary team of teachers on board. Sustainable UM2030 organised a meeting in which teachers from various faculties presented their ideas for sustainability courses to students.
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Teams of students and staff working on sustainability
Monday, March 16, 2020
UM gains insight into what employees and students think is most important when it comes to sustainability and we collect many good ideas that can be implemented.
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Sustainability & food week
Monday, March 16, 2020
Last week it was the Dutch National Week Without Meat. Alligned with that Green Office organised events during their Sustainability & Food week.
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Urban greenspace as motor for exercising, meeting and relaxing
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Last year, the Maastricht Sustainability Institute joined forces with the public health service (GGD) of Zuid Limburg to investigate the influence of 'green in the neighborhood' on the health of residents in Maastricht.
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Students run ‘not another supermarket’
Thursday, January 30, 2020
In 2018, UM student Liza Diane Gordin and some fellow students received a grant from the University Fund Limburg/SWOL to set up the first student food cooperative of the Benelux.
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What role can academics play in addressing the ongoing crises of global warming and biodiversity loss?
Friday, January 24, 2020
What is the meaning of academia in times of environmental crisis? This question brought us together during a debate initiated and organized by Students for Climate Maastricht, and supported by Sustainable UM2030 and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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Maastricht University invests in solar park. "We want to be a sustainable employer".
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
To accelerate the switch to renewable energy and to reduce CO2 emissions, Maastricht University and Bodemzorg Limburg will make the former Belvedere landfill suitable for installing solar panels.
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Don’t throw your plastic waste away!
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The students of Precious Plastic Maastricht have big plans for the future, with the ultimate goal of building four recycling machines for plastic waste. “What’s in Maastricht stays in Maastricht – that should become the new norm when it comes to plastic.”
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New life for plastic waste
Friday, December 13, 2019
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Nominate your colleague(s) for the Sustainability Award 2019
Monday, December 9, 2019
Are you someone who is committed in an extraordinary way or who wants to make UM and its surroundings or society more sustainable? Or do you know someone or a team who has made a special contribution to the sustainability of UM and its surroundings in an administrative, scientific or service related way? Then don't hesitate and compete for the UM Sustainability Award 2019!
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Introducing: the new Green Office team
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
As of October we have a brand new Green Office and they would like to introduce themselves! The Green Office’s aim is to represent the student voice when it comes to sustainability at UM.
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(Re)searching sustainability
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
UM organises a symposium to co-create a strategy on sustainability research and sustainable research. Highlights will include the results of a survey on existing research and a discussion to determine our vision on a Sustainable UM in 2030.
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GREENER: dealing with the plastic soup
Monday, September 30, 2019
Everyone has heard of the "plastic soup" in the oceans, where plastic waste breaks down into small particles that end up in our food chain because plankton and marine animals consume micro plastics.
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Design renovations Tapijn scores excellent sustainability certificate
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The design for the renovation of the former Tapijn barracks has been awarded the BREEAM-NL New Construction and Renovation certificate. The certificate has been achieved with a score of no less than 80.14 and is therefore entitled "excellent".
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Marching together to save the climate
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Global climate change is an issue that Arthur Bribosia (UCM) and Marion Meyers (DKE) feel very strongly about. Strong enough to take action. Last May, they got 3000 people out on the street to join the first climate march in Maastricht. For the next march, scheduled for 20 September, they’re hoping for 5000 participants.
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Four sustainable plans for the coming year
Thursday, September 12, 2019
The new academic year has started, so it’s time to get to know UM’s resolutions regarding sustainability for the coming year!
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Survey BA students: interest in UM-wide minor Sustainable Development
Monday, September 9, 2019
Between April and July 2019, a survey took place investigating whether bachelor students were interested in having a UM-wide Minor on Sustainable Development. The results of the survey were quite positive towards having such a minor. The taskforce Sustainable UM2030 (met link) has presented a project plan as to make such a minor possible as of the academic year 2020-2021.
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From waste cooking oil to protective coating
Friday, June 28, 2019
Students of the Biobased Materials master’s programme took third prize in the Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe with their idea to convert waste cooking oil into vinyl ester resins.
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Maastricht University 6th in SustainaBul ranking
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Starting in 2012, the SustainaBul (which is a pun, as a ‘bul’ is the degree you receive when graduating from university) has ranked the sustainability of the Dutch higher education institutions. The ranking is organised every year by Studenten voor Morgen, a Dutch student initiative. Participating institutions have to fill out a questionnaire to assess the sustainability level of their research, education, business management and integral approach. This month the results from the ranking of 2019 were presented.
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Students for Climate – building a community
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Students marching against climate change? Not really news, is it now? That’s the sort of thing students do anyways. Aware of the stereotype, Students for Climate chose to prick the student bubble for their latest march.
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Precious Plastic Maastricht – the potential of waste
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Precious Plastic Maastricht is currently setting up a local recycling workspace that turns plastic waste into entirely new goods, such as bins, beams, 3D printer filaments, and much more.
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Impact over Image
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The finishing line of Green Impact, UM’s sustainability competition, is fast approaching. The Faculty of Science and Engineering’s team is doing very well - even if their numbers-based approach at times fretted against the general focus on awareness over solutions…
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Evaluating the Warm Sweater Week 11-15 February 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019
February 15th was the National Warm Sweater Day. All over The Netherlands more than 200.000 people participated by turning down the heat by 1 degree.
At Maastricht University a majority of its buildings participated during the whole week. We want to thank all of you for bearing with us! We got lots of reactions spanning from “Please do this during the whole year” to “I had to wear my coat to work”. Sometimes the working conditions were really unbearable.
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Biobased socks from Sustainable Polymer
Monday, March 18, 2019
Aim in their study was to develop biobased compostable socks from Polylactic acid (PLA), acknowledged as sustainable and eco-friendly is a biodegradable and compostable polymer obtained from annually renewable resources.
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Warm-Sweater-Week at Maastricht University
Thursday, February 7, 2019
After having participated in the national Warm-Sweater-Day for several years, Maastricht University has decided to organise a Warm-Sweater-Week this year, from 11 to 15 February.
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Green Impact: driving change one lightbulb at a time
Thursday, January 31, 2019
UM’s commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and its aim to be a sustainable university by 2030 is taking shape. Green shoots are visible everywhere - metaphorically that is; winter continues as scheduled…
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‘The art of the new life together’
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
At the place where not so long ago young theatre makers presented their work to the public, fifteen students and ‘differently abled’ people (called the Masters) are now living together.
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Sustainability is not a cheesy matter
Thursday, November 1, 2018
As part of our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, UM wants to have a zero carbon footprint by 2030. Even an occasional hand in the cookie jar of veganism goes a long way towards that.
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Maastricht University signs declaration of intent to set up sustainability center at Chemelot
Thursday, October 25, 2018
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INKOM most sustainable introduction week in the Netherlands
Friday, September 28, 2018
The introduction week of Maastricht University, INKOM, was this year’s most sustainable Dutch introduction week.
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One Young World and Maastricht University: Leadership for a better tomorrow
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Maastricht University is proudly announcing an opening for a delegate position for an inspiring young Maastricht University leader for this year’s One Young World Summit (The Hague, 17-20 October 2018)
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Library of Things: Out of the attic, into the commonweal
Friday, September 14, 2018
UM students Elisa Etrari, Anna Reyneri and Becca Bowers are running Library of Things. It’s exactly what you think it is: you sign up, choose something from their online catalogue or just browse – then you borrow whatever you need and bring it back once you are done using it.
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Urban greenspace as a motor for moving, meeting and relaxing
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Under project name: 'Urban greenspace as a motor for moving, meeting and relaxing', ICIS will collaborate with the GGD and use a spatial computer model to assess benefits of greenspace for health in Maastricht.
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Opening Academic Year 2018/19: towards a sustainable UM in 2030
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
On 3 September 2018, UM celebrated the opening of the academic year 2018/19. This was dedicated entirely to sustainable development. In the recently adopted vision document ‘SUSTAINABLE UM 2030’, UM describes its ambition to be a sustainable university by 2030, with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN as the guiding framework.
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Major cities are going greener thanks to sustainability labels
Thursday, August 23, 2018
The number of buildings with a sustainability certificate has grown considerably in major cities, according to the annual U.S. Green Building Adoption Index, published by CBRE and Maastricht University.
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UM building gives textile waste a second life
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The UM administration building will soon be fitted with sound-proofing panels made from recycled textile waste by people with a labour market disability.
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Sustainability on economists’ radar
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Sustainability has become firmly ensconced in the world of economists. These days, no calculation is made without accounting for environmental effects, corporate responsibility and the long term.
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There is such a thing as a free lunch – a sustainable student initiative
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Foodsharing Maastricht is a student initiative that collects leftover food from local supermarkets and hotels. The food can then be picked up by any comers in Building X, Tapijnkazerne.
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Largest European database of sustainable energy initiatives now online
Monday, June 4, 2018
Last year researchers from ICIS, Maastricht University’s institute for sustainable development, created an inventory of projects seeking to make a sustainable change to people’s energy consumption. Together with 10 research partners in the EU Horizon 2020 project ENERGISE, they gathered information on more than 1,000 projects and initiatives in 30 European countries.
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(A last) Hooray for books!
Monday, April 23, 2018
23 April is UN World Book and Copyright Day. While we are going digital, there is still space for print books at UM.
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New UM building to serve as living lab for sustainable real estate
Monday, December 18, 2017
UM first university in Europe to register for the WELL Building Standard.
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The motives behind sustainable construction
Monday, October 16, 2017
Estate investors financially benefit from sustainable buildings, says associate professor of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. His research into the financial effects of sustainable construction is discussed in an article in the Huffington Post.
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The Garden of Eden is in Maastricht
Thursday, July 6, 2017
The study association of the master's programme in Sustainability, Science and Policy, ASAP, has kept a community garden for about four years in Maastricht on the Mergelweg. Under the inspiring leadership of Colin Laviolette, around eight students maintain the garden.
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‘Sustainabul’ for Maastricht University
Thursday, June 8, 2017
On the recent National Day for Sustainability in Higher Education, Maastricht University scored 8th place in the ranking of a total of 20 universities and universities of applied sciences.
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UM ondertekent Maastrichts Energie Akkoord
Thursday, November 12, 2015
De Universiteit Maastricht ondertekent op 2 november een Energie Akkoord met de Gemeente Maastricht.
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