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'The (gas) price of working from home is too high for employee and society'
07-11-2022'The (gas) price of working from home is too high for employee and society'. According to Linde Kattenberg en Martijn Stroom in Parool.
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Return on home insulation is so high that subsidies are largely unnecessary
27-10-2022Return on home insulation is so high that subsidies are largely unnecessary
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Are human rights of future generations our concern?
03-10-2022After years of meaningful work at our university, Prof. Fons Coomans gave his farewell address to the Faculty of Law on 2 September, where he examined important human rights questions. How do they impact our daily lives? And how do they affect people on a personal level? Will future generations still have human rights?
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Technology and equal opportunities in education
29-09-2022Technology can increase as well as decrease inequality in education. That is the conclusion of professor of education Carla Haelermans of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) in Maastricht. She conducted years of research on the subject and will deliver her inaugural address at Maastricht University on Friday 30 September.
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Old taboos around poverty and money stress may now disappear
26-09-2022Old taboos around poverty and money stress may now disappear
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We need to consume less and more sustainably
22-08-2022Everyone notices it: prices are rising. Inflation has not been this high in years.
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Companies do often not live up to their sustainable hallmark
19-08-2022The ESG rating, the hallmark that indicates that companies are conducting business in a socially responsible way, often appears to be a promise that only exists on paper. While large investors, such as Dutch pension funds, actually use it to make responsible investments.
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Blue sky thinking – the hidden threat of fine particulate pollution
16-08-2022For three years in a row, Steffen Künn and colleagues went to a seven-week-long chess tournament in Cologne to establish a link between levels of air pollution and cognitive performance. The somewhat alarming results were eagerly scooped up by the media, but it took even more data to convince the academic community that air pollution might affect our economy.