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ITEM’s Marcus Meyer and Thomas Biermeyer have won a Jean Monnet grant on the topic of cross-border mobility of companies in the EU and EEA. This project supplements a tender won by Thomas and Marcus earlier this year from ETUI for a three-year project on the same topic. The Jean Monnet grant allows to extend the project’s monitoring timespan to 20 years, covering the period 2000-2020 and organizing a high-level conference on this topic in Brussels.

The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) will fund Maastricht-based research into lung tumours with a €498,000 grant.

As of 1 September 2017 two new regulations will become effective:
Tenure Track Regulations for the position of Assistant Professor and Recruitment, Selection and appointment of Professors at Maastricht University.

Both regulations can be found on the Maastricht University website.

Every year, between 7,000 and 8,000 people are resuscitated in the Netherlands after a cardiac arrest outside the hospital. The first six minutes are crucial. The sooner you start with heart massage the better, and the more people who learn this skill, the greater the chance of survival. With this in mind, Ton Gorgels, professor of Transmural Cardiology, together with Petra Schuffelen, founded the QRS Taskforce in Maastricht ten years ago. 

DKE student Thomas Vrancken uses text-mining to prove that the vocabulary of rappers is significantly richer than that pop music artists.

Global software giant Microsoft is set to introduce a Limburg language model with a keyboard and spellcheck function, which will make the Limburgish language easier to use on digital media platforms.

Michael Faure, The Development of Environmental Criminal Law in the EU and its Member States, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 

Professor Onno van Schayck (CAPHRI/FHML) was interviewed last week by the Dutch national news channel NOS about the Exhale project in the Health in Slums programme that he co-initiated. In India people often cook indoors using firewood and that is damaging to their health. Each year half a million people die from this cause.

Picture this: by following three simple rules, your just-for-fun selfies could help you make a name for yourself, and perhaps even serious money, on social networking sites. That is one of the findings of new research by Stefania Farace, a PhD candidate at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) at Maastricht University, who collaborated with her SBE's Professor Martin Wetzels, and two UK-based academics, Tom van Laer and Ko de Ruyter.

Previously we informed you that Dutch Universities agreed with unions to a new Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (CAO NU).

The full text of the CAO NU is now available on the website of VSNU. Currently only a Dutch version is available of the appendix; VSNU will commission a translation as soon as possible.

The duration of this collective agreement is from 2 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 and has been extended until 1 July 2018.

In the next period texts on the UM-website will be adapted.