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In October 2024, European Law Open published Matteo Bonelli and Mateus Correia de Carvalho’s article "No need to look, trust me! Mutual trust and distrust in the European arrest warrant system".
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We are excited to announce the AI Prompt Library, a collection of prompt templates designed to help you effectively use generative AI tools.
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In many industries today, a few "superstar" firms dominate while many others lag behind. This concentration contributes to wage inequality, reduced aggregate productivity, and diminished competition and innovation. In countries with many small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this dominance can limit the supply of skills and deplete growth opportunities for these businesses. What sets these leading firms apart? What skill-building strategies do they employ? These questions are central to Mantej Pardesi's PhD project, "Please Mind the 'Productivity' Gap," which explores how firms compete for skills by training and hiring to narrow the gap with industry leaders.
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On October 15th, professor Piet van den Brandt received the MUMC+ medal as a token of appreciation for his services over almost 40 years.
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In a significant cross-border collaboration, Maastricht University is excited to announce that NetSci 2025, the flagship international conference of the Network Science Society, will be held at MECC Maastricht from June 2nd to June 6th, 2025.
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On Friday afternoon, 18 October, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture, and Science) paid a working visit to Maastricht. There, he was briefed by Limburg's educational institutions on current educational topics from the Education Manifesto. The minister also engaged in conversations with teachers and students. Through practical examples, Bruins gained a clear understanding of how education in Limburg is joining forces and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by its border location. In addition, the Province of Limburg and the educational institutions expressed their concerns about government plans that do not sufficiently take these regional opportunities into account.
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Society is stuck on a one-way superhighway of value destruction, if you ask Nancy Bocken. Here, the professor of Sustainable Business & Circular Economy proposes how we might exit the highway of linear consumption—and why what we do matters.
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On 3 October 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network was pleased to welcome Rachel Griffin (Sciences Po), who presented her work in progress titled ‘EU Platform Regulation in the Age of Neo-Illiberalism’.
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CAPHRI’s Latifa Abidi and Gera Nagelhout study intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic problems and health disparities. The central question is how exactly your parents’ financial difficulties leave you unhealthier and less likely to progress in life. To contribute to a fairer society, they turn to citizen-science. They organise and participate in focus groups to look beyond the numbers at the individuals affected.
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“They all love it,” says Georgios Stamoulis from DACS, throwing his arms up in the air. He’s referring to his students enrolled in the Quantum Algorithms course of the master’s specialisation in Quantum Computing. He is about to start the final lecture of this course.