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  • 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
  • How sustainable and healthy is the new all-vegetable food line?

    Under the name "Terra," Albert Heijn has introduced a 100 percent plant-based product line, with some two hundred different food items ranging from beverages to spreads and meat substitutes. How sustainable and healthy are these products?

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  • 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
  • Subversive crime through high-value unique goods

    Funded by the NWO, a major new research project called PRICELESS is starting and led by Dr. Christoph Rausch, Associate Professor at Maastricht University and affiliated with MACCH, among others.

    When the money is gone
  • 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