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  • European academia pays the price for Brexit

    Almost 20 years ago, in 2002, I had the honour to give one of the “William Harvey lectures” at the University of Padua, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Englishman’s graduation with a degree in medicine from the famous Italian university.

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    brexit blog Martin Paul
  • Horizon Europe: game change?

    Horizon Europe: game change?

    Van Horizon 2020 naar Horizon Europe

    ‘Evolution, not revoltion’ was het uitgangspunt bij de start van de voorbereiding van het nieuwe onderzoek- en innovatiekaderprogramma Horizon Europe 2021-2027 van de Europese Unie. Grote aanpassingen leken niet nodig. Elders in de...

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  • Work with multiproblem families

    As a family therapist in an ambulatory setting, I see varying psychiatric disorders in multiproblem families. I specifically work with families who not only suffer from any kind of disorders, but also are affected by mild intellectual disability. This blog encompasses two parts. First, it will give...

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    Sophie Thijs
  • Limburg Esperanto

    We occasionally receive letters here at Maastricht University telling us we are ruining the Dutch language by only offering education in English. They do not actually have the facts straight: we are a bilingual university with an ‘English unless policy’, which means the language of instruction is...

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    Prof. dr. Martin Paul
  • Plagiarism and "Citing correctly"

    The KNAW just released the advisory letter on "Correct Citation" after all the commotion surrounding the case of Peter Nijkamp... This blog is only available in Dutch.

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