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  • EU immigration and asylum law are plagued by disharmony and dysfunction. Lilian Tsourdi, assistant professor of International and European Law, is investigating how to improve the situation.

  • Why do humans act the way they do? To answer this complex question, Hannes Rusch has to be a bit of everything: economist, biologist, philosopher, mathematician. He recently received a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant to develop and empirically validate an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for...

  • Things are bustling around the kitchen table of Burak Can, associate professor of Data Analytics and Digitalisation. A mix of Turkish, English and Dutch can be heard. “I speak Turkish with my children, my wife Ingrid speaks Dutch with them, and we speak English with each other.” On the menu is one...

  • Gera Nagelhout is, in many respects, not a typical professor. She was the first in her family to attend university, and at the age of 34 was appointed endowed professor of Health and Wellbeing of People with a Lower Socioeconomic Position.

  • The consultation round on the upcoming ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2023 has been launched! Grab the opportunity to share your experiences with ITEM! Dossier suggestions can be made up to and including 7 March 2023.

  • Are you edUMinded? It is with great excitement that we announce the launch edUMinded, the UM online Magazine on Teaching & Learning.
  • Do students' perspectives on education matter? Should educators listen to the "student voice", and if so, how? EDLAB Innovation Coordinator and former UM student Lena Gromotka reflects on the four types of student voices: the Complainer, the Critic, the Idealist, and the Suggester.

  • In the spring of 2022, EDLAB selected a group of teaching professionals, study advisors and students to form a Community of Practice around the topic of blended learning. How did the participants embark on this new experiment? "We soon found ourselves in an identity crisis," explain the two CoP...

  • Jessica Hagen-Zanker works for ODI, an international, independent think tank that conducts research and advises governments and NGOs on global issues such as migration. The Maastricht-trained senior research fellow notes that politicians tend to shy away from humane and practical solutions....

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    To good health!

    From lab technician to FHML student to national decision maker: after spending a number of formative years at Maastricht University, Abdifatah Ahmed Mohamed has returned to his native Somalia. There he aims to make a difference as Director of Policy and Planning at the Ministry of Health and Human...