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His dissertation, The Forgotten Occupation: Politics, Everyday Life, and Gender in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany (1945–55) , was recognised for its outstanding scientific quality.

Health professionals and other care workers need to cooperate both with one another and with neighbourhood residents, according to UM researchers Arianne Elissen and Anne van den Bulck. As part of the LIME project ‘Working together for healthy neighbourhoods’, they explored how best to do this.

The three-year project brings together researchers, municipalities and societal partners from the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal to investigate how former industrial areas can be transformed into greener, more inclusive and more resilient neighbourhoods.

As of Novomber 1, Prof. Dr. Gert-Jan Gruter will be endowed professor of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry & Materials at the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Gruter will be working on sustainable chemistry and materials innovation at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials.

Over the next three months, we will be trialling WML’s ‘Be WaterWise’ campaign at the University Library in the city centre and at UMSport.

With KReDO (Frameworks, Freedom and Effective Support), we are breaking new ground once more. This time, the challenge is to strike the right balance between innovation on the one hand and providing sustainable and efficient support for all our programmes on the other.

We are pleased to announce the call for academic papers , professional presentations, and manifestations of artistic research for our next MACCH conference, taking place on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 March 2027. We call for your submission of abstracts by Friday 11 December 2026.

What can immersive technology add to teaching and learning? Jonas Heller from DEXLab shares examples of how virtual and augmented reality can create new learning experiences, and offers practical advice for educators who want to experiment with the technology.

Niels Holtrop, associate professor at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), has been awarded a prestigious Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded four experienced researchers from Maastricht University a so-called Vidi funding, totalling 850,000 euros. This will enable them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up a research group.