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During the 2023 ERS International Congress in Milan (Italy), the ERS presented the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 to Professor Martijn Spruit.

As a UM community, we are deeply saddened by the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco. We sympathise with everyone affected in any way by this disaster.

And how can it be counteracted? According to Luc van Loon, you can become a bodybuilder even after age 80. 'But the disadvantage of our dynamic muscles is that you also lose them quickly when you start using them less. Maintaining muscles is an active process. You have to keep stimulating them.' NUT...

Since the signing of the declaration of intent of the UN Convention in 2020, Maastricht University works in different ways towards inclusive education. Pamela Habibović, Rector Magnificus, had a conversation with students Carolina, John and Sjoerd, and Disability Officer Sigrid Péters about what...

Five NUTRIM researchers honoured with research appointments on Sector Plan Health – theme prevention. Dorus Gevers, Dennis de Ruijter (Health Promotion), Michelle Weijzen (Human Biology), Marcel den Dulk (Surgery) and Brenda Berendsen (Human Movement Sciences) receive a structural U(H)D appointment...

The combined lifestyle intervention from Your Coach Next Door (YCND) will be structurally funded by the Dutch basic health insurance, from January 1, 2024 on. Both the combined lifestyle intervention and the deployment of trained central care providers will be included in the basic health insurance!

On October 25 2023, the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award will be presented for the fifth time. Candidates can apply for it until 15 June. The award is aimed at anyone in the Netherlands-Germany-Belgium border region who is working on a dream to accelerate the circular transition. A prize of €35...

The Consul Association has jointly decided to award a prize (value: 1000 euro) for the best master thesis in the field of EU law, written at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University during the academic year 2022/2023. The Prize will be awarded to the student who wrote a thesis of outstanding...

On 1 April 2022, the GreenFood4Health Challenge took place at the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. The winning team: Anastasia Kalalidou, Einar Schulze, Vanessa Klose, Inês Brito Da Mana Morgado and Saja Alowaisi (Fontys), master students of the MSc Health Food Innovation Management at Maastricht...

From March 28 - April 2, 2021, Maastricht University competed in the International and European Tax Moot Court Competition 2020 – 2021 organized by the Institute of Tax Law of KU Leuven and the IBFD in cooperation with Deloitte.