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  • Realisation of national Pilot factory for regenerative medicine has started

    RegMed XB has received the first subsidy of 23 million euros from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. This is the start of the realization of the national pilot factory for regenerative medicine after the Dutch cabinet decided on 9 April this year to fund the National Growth Fund...

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  • Homes instead of meadows

    “Het nieuwe kabinet wil de crisis op de woningmarkt oplossen door snel nieuwe woningen te bouwen,” zo kopten de kranten eerder deze week. Nils Kok en Piet Eichholtz van de Universiteit Maastricht reageren.

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  • Awards for FHML scientists

    Two talented young researchers from the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University have won awards. Kim Kampen received the KNAW Early Career Award and Floor van den Brand has won the Catharina Pijls Dissertation Prize.

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  • Tobacco discouragement is only effective from €12 per cigarette pack

    The only way to get enough people to quit smoking to achieve the goals of the National Prevention Agreement is to substantially increase the excise duty on tobacco products. This is the conclusion of research by Maastricht University (UM) on the price sensitivity of people who smoke cigarettes or...

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  • New approach is needed in the fight against chlamydia

    Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) worldwide and in the Netherlands. The clinical and public health relevance of widespread case finding by testing for asymptomatic Chlamydia infections is under debate.

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  • Vulnerable students remain the hardest hit by COVID-19

    The balance after a year and a half of the COVID-19 crisis in education: the corona delay has partly been made up, but learning growth is still lower, especially in mathematics. Vulnerable students remain the hardest hit.

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  • SBE academics react to 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

    On 11 October, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with one half to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics” and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens...

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  • SBE awarded five-year EQUIS re-accreditation!

    We are delighted to announce that SBE has been awarded renewal of our EQUIS accreditation for the maximum length of five years. This achievement continues SBE’s membership of a select global group of business schools that hold this accreditation.

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