Assessment is beautiful
While the Dutch word for assessment (toetsen) often carries a negative connotation, Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke sees it as something quite beautiful.

While the Dutch word for assessment (toetsen) often carries a negative connotation, Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke sees it as something quite beautiful.
Within FHML, five researchers are awarded a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros to further develop their research ideas.
As many as ten young UM researchers have been awarded a Veni grant worth up to €320,000 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
As part of my research internship at the Fair & Smart Data (FSD) project, I’ve been balancing thesis work, communication tasks, and gaining a closer look at how academic research functions in practice. In this blog, I will share some reflections from this experience, particularly my take on...
Sjoerd Maillé holds a bachelor’s in Law and a master’s in Law & Labour (cum laude) from Maastricht University. Born and raised in Brabant, he now works as a trainee at the Limburg District Court. At just 24 years old, he is also the second youngest member of the Limburg Provincial Council and a...
SBE professors Lisa Brüggen and Rob Bauer are part of a national, NWO-funded initiative exploring how Dutch pension funds can accelerate the transition to a sustainable society. The €750,000 project aims to align pension investments with participants’ sustainability preferences and practical legal...
Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Johan Adriaensen and Odile Felkamp have been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant of €400,000 for their research project “Towards EU economic statecraft? Party-political cleavages on geoeconomic instruments”.
We're happy to announce that Maastricht University has been awarded a €80,000 funding to strengthen its involvement in Npuls.
Europe’s plans to increase its military capacity are controversial; not so much the if as the how. Maastricht University professors Sophie Vanhoonacker and Rob Bauer differ in their views of how optimistic we can be.
From inspiring keynotes to bold classroom experiments, this year’s edition reminded us all: Learning never stops.