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Making the university more sustainable requires more than energy saving and reducing waste. Everyone should get involved. That is why two key themes of Sustainable UM2030 are education and research. Hence the Sustainable UM2030 team organized an afternoon of brainstorming with staff and students about these subjects last December at Fasos, as a ‘kick-off’ for taking action.

The Faculty of Science and Engineering welcomes Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus Professor of Mathematics of the University of Oxford, for a two-day visit to Maastricht.

Research by Karlijn Haagsman, Valentina Mazzucato and Bilisuma Dito has been used in an important Supreme Court case in the US: President Trump vs Hawaii.

NWO Grant for refugee Scientist fellowship awarded to Giselle Bosse.

The course ‘Research Methods: Survey Research’ (BA European Studies), coordinated by Dr Bosse, has been selected by EDLAB as ‘Best Practice Example for the Use of Creative PBL’.

Little structural cross-border cooperation takes place between organisations in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR) that offer services for newcomers. Existing cooperation seems to be limited to sporadic exchanges of information, expertise centre ITEM (Maastricht University) concludes in the report ‘Inventory of Services and Activities for Newcomers in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine’.

Three UM researchers have been awarded a Research Mobility Award (RMA), provided by YERUN, the Young European Research Universities network. YERUN, next to the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is one of the UM’s two strategic networks. 

What makes the KE@Work partnership unique, and which philosophy is behind the programme’s collaboration?

Dr. Cameron Browne on the Digital Ludeme Project and his PhD research in Dutch newspaper Trouw (article in Dutch)