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Nicole Rijkens-Klomp defended her PhD thesis: “Foresight for strategic policies; lessons from local practice”

As part of the winter school, the NACCA PhD candidates will present their research at a public event hosted by Tate Modern.

Pioneering research could prevent lymphoedema (PhD Maarten Beek).

On Friday 16 December 2016 Prof. dr. Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn accepted the unique chair ‘Cross-border Pension Tax Law’. The video of the inaugural lecture of Prof. dr. Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn, titled 'Cross-border fiscal organisation of pensions' is now available.

Martin Unfried, 'ontgrenzer' at the ITEM expertise centre has presented the ITEM Cross-border impact assessment at the conference "Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit an der deutschen Außengrenze - Herausforderungen, Hindernisse und Entwicklungschancen" in Berlin on 12 and 13 December 2016.

Read about the latest publication contributions by Prof. Michael Faure.

At the end of December, the book The Maastricht Experiment - On the challenges faced by a young university 1976 – 2016 will be published on the occasion of Maastricht University’s 40th anniversary.

What factors can help prevent warring parties from reverting to violence and instead create a sustainable peace? This is the central question at the heart of the PhD thesis ‘Sustainable Peacebuilding in Divided Societies’ defended by Ayokunu Adedokun on 20 December 2016.

Damage to small blood vessels in prediabetes (mumc+ news).

Certain types of chemotherapy cause a greater degree of nerve damage than was previously thought (PhD conferral Tonneke Beijers).