News

  • Europe Day

    To celebrate Europe Day on 9 May, FASoS student Lisa travelled to Brussels to meet with five of our inspiring alumni who are currently shaping European policy and advocacy. In this video, they share why Europe Day matters, how it’s celebrated in Brussels, and what the idea of Europe means to them.

    Europe Day-FASoS
  • KE@Work: studying and working at the same time

    How an honours programme is staving off brain drain

    In the KE@Work programme, students solve a complex, real-world problem while working at a local company. An honours track of the bachelor’s in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, KE@Work provides ambitious students with valuable work...

    UMagazine
  • Maastricht University science students win gold at the international iGEM competition

    How do you fix a crack in limestone, such as mergel? Well, simply ask some bacteria to do it for you. In short, this is the goal 11 students from Maastricht University set themselves to do. They succeeded and ended up in the TOP10 best undergraduate projects competing in the iGEM competition. For...

    iGEM team 2023
  • Strong foundation for international talent

    Nikola Prianikov came from Kyiv to study Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Maastricht. He talks about how UM’s Foundation Programme opens doors for international talent, how he enjoyed his study experience despite war and pestilence, and how the Netherlands has come to seem like a viable...

    Prianikov Foundation Programme
  • Putting things into perspectives

    The trailblazing cohort of the Global Studies bachelor programme has graduated. Gaia Gazzara and Vincent Tadday look back on transdisciplinarity, challenging yourself and integrating new perspectives.

    Global Studies Graduation Gaia Gazzara and VIncent Tadday
  • Students of Business Engineering harvest international awards

    A group of Maastricht University's Business Engineering Bachelor's students won three awards at this year's edition of the renowned ENGCOMM, the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition, held by the University of Concordia in Montreal (Canada).

    A team of welldressed students
  • Marco Serafini winner of Menno Knetsch Thesis Award 2022

    The Menno Knetsch Award 2022 has been awarded to MSc Biobased Materials graduate Marco Serafini. His winning thesis was about ‘Sustainability assessment of biobased colourants for packaging applications.’

    Marco Serafini
  • Nitroshrimp: From shrimp waste to biobased fertilizers

    A team of UM students from the Biobased Materials Masters, Business Engineering, Bachelors and Maastricht Science Program Bachelors was awarded 2nd place in the Netherlands’s national phase of Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISC-E) Competition 2022.

    Nitroshrimp: From shrimp waste to biobased fertilizers