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How do the 18 people on the Faculty Council represent FHML, Maastricht University's largest faculty? According to Kim Luijten, loyal secretary of the Faculty Council for 13 years, you ensure that by having a council that represents the faculty and its staff in all its facets.

In this article, EDLAB research fellow Robyn Ausmeier reflects on her research into GenAI as an educational tool, and what this reveals about the underlying educational vision and values we hold at UM.

On 15 January 2025, the Globalisation & Law Network held the seminar featuring Dr. Pola Cebulak, Assistant Professor in European Law at the Transnational Legal Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who presented her paper 'Strategic Litigation in EU Law: Who does it empower? (co-authored with Marta Morvillo and Stefan Salomon).

Are you a student with a disability, chronic illness or neurodivergence? Would you like to connect with a fellow student in a similar situation? Join UnliMited-Students Buddy Programme!

Last week, education minister Bruins published a letter to the House of Representatives outlining how he plans to address the call to protect regions like Limburg from measures aimed at reducing the number of international students. Unfortunately, many questions remain unanswered. While the minister acknowledges the unique characteristics of certain regions, he also insists that every programme, including those at UM, must pass a language test. This does little to clarify the situation.

Maastricht University (UM) students will have the opportunity to enrol in 21 minors through the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance in the 2025-2026 academic year. These 30-ECTS minors, covering a wide range of disciplines, will be offered across all 10 YUFE universities, providing a unique international learning experience.

You are cordially invited to join a 2-day symposium exploring material developments and new paradigms in creation, preservation, and conservation in arts and heritage. Regenerate! is organised by the Jan van Eyck Academie and Maastricht University in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) and on the occasion of the Re-Launch of the Future Materials Lab.

Thursday, 20 March – Friday, 21 March 2025
Jan van Eyck Academie

Marij Middag (PhD Candidate) and Teresa Schuhmann (Professor of Clinical Applications of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation) from the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, have recently published their paper Alpha transcranial alternating current stimulation as add-on to neglect training: a randomised trial (also co-authored with Alexander Sack and Caroline van Heugten) in Brain Communications from Oxford Academic. We spoke to Schuhmann about their research

The Board of Deans of Maastricht University, partly in response to discussions surrounding De Jonge Akademie’s ‘Iedereen Professor’ initiative, is emphasising PhD supervision rights for Assistant Professors. At UM, Assistant Professors can apply for the ius promovendi, granting them the right to confer a doctorate degree and act as a PhD supervisor.