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Maastricht University has been selected for the first time as the primary applicant and project leader of the Gravitation programme.

The ET Pathfinder, a test facility for the Einstein Telescope, will be housed in the university building at the Duboisdomein 30 (DUB30) in Maastricht.

Research partners from pharma, academia, and SMEs have come together to form the Reward Task Optimisation Consortium (RTOC): an initiative aimed at advancing the development of clinical tools to measure motivational functions in people suffering from mental disorders. Researchers at Maastricht University have joined this consortium.

NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities has awarded funding to three UM researchers in the NWO Open Competition – SSH.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Zvezda Vankova of the Faculty of Law a Rubicon grant that allows her to conduct research at the University of Lund (Sweden) for a period of 24 months. The Rubicon programme is intended to give young, highly promising researchers the opportunity to gain international research experience.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to eight young, highly promising UM scientists.