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Obesity is one of the great public health problems we face. New drugs such as Ozempic offer possibilities but also raise moral, economic and health questions. Why is ‘just lose some weight’ naïve and unempirical? Why might covering Ozempic be cheaper for health insurers? We brought together experts Anne Roefs, Gijs Goossens and Mickaël Hiligsmann to talk about obesity and its new miracle cure.

Maastricht University is introducing new assessment frameworks to evaluate collaborations with partner institutions and other organisations. These frameworks have been developed to ensure that education and research at UM do not, through collaborations, contribute to large-scale human rights violations or hinder the transition to a fossil-free society. An assessment framework for knowledge security has been in place since 2023.

Doubts about vaccination continue to be a significant challenge for global public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats to global health.  

But what exactly is vaccine hesitancy and how does it impact our society? How can we address it, particularly in healthcare? PhD candidate Veja Widdershoven conducted research into these questions and proposed ways to approach vaccine hesitancy.

The article examines the multi-step test developed by EU courts to rule on the whether a breach of law by an EU authority is sufficiently serious under art.340(2) TFEU, from the perspective of its transparency and predictability. 

In December 2024, the Review of European Administrative Law published Guido Bellenghi and Luca Knuth’s article "EU Food Law and the Politics of the Internal Market: The Challenge of Cultivated Meat". 

What role do nerve cells play in colorectal cancer? In this Science Story, Veerle Melotte explains her research.

We are pleased to announce the 11 new education innovation projects that have received an EDLAB grant for 2025! 

Courts use digital tools more and more often in criminal proceedings. Defendants ‘attend’ their trial online via a video connection. This sparked Christina Peristeridou’s curiosity: how can effective participation be achieved in a virtual setting?

Her primary school teacher was convinced she would end up saving the whales with Greenpeace. Even as a child, Maastricht University alum Susanne Schnabel couldn’t stand injustice. If a classmate was bullied, she had to intervene. It was this trait, combined with her “big mouth,” that led her to the legal profession. For the last 12 years, Schnabel has worked at Tripels Advocaten in Maastricht. “I don’t go around bragging that I’m a lawyer. This is just my job.”

€50,000 for the project ‘Judicialization and democracy: towards an historicized approach’.