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Robots are on an unstoppable march in healthcare, restaurants, airports and shops. The various research projects at the Maastricht Center for Robots at the School of Business and Economics focus on the interaction between service robots and humans. One of these projects was conducted by Chelsea Phillips, a PhD candidate from Australia. Supervised by Gaby Odekerken-Schröder and Dominik Mahr, she studied the use of service robots, which are designed to assist people.

Luana takes over from Giselle Bosse, who was co-director the past years.

For the project: "Zin in Koken Plus": a neighborhood approach to delicious and healthy cooking for people with chronic conditions.

Studio Europa Maastricht spoke with Yf Reykers, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Maastricht University, about the EU’s security priorities, the role of the new defence commissioner, and the future of EU-NATO relations.

€120,000 for her project ‘Moral Monitoring’, which studies how smart monitoring technologies shape parent-child relations.

The Executive Board of the Faculty of Law has appointed Dr Gabriel Esquivel as Professor in Transforensic Psychiatry with effect from 1 February 2025.

The Executive Board of the Faculty of Law has appointed Dr Lilian Tsourdi Professor of European Migration Law and Governance as of 1 March 2025.

Dr Niels Philipsen has been appointed professor of Legal Economics at Maastricht University's Faculty of Law with effect from 1 March 2025. The chair will be housed in the Department of Foundations of Law.

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.