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On 9 December 2016, leading politicians, scholars and interested parties followed the invitation of the municipality of Maastricht to attend the 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty.

Computer Vision News discussed ICT4Life - life improvement for the elderly - with the Affective & Visual Computing Lab crew.  

Article in news paper Trouw about intercountry adoption by Lies Wesseling.

On 23 September 2016 professor Maarten Vink, Co-Director of MACIMIDE and a member of the ITEM Academic Office, addressed the Committee of the Regions of the European Union during the 10th Meeting of CIVEX in Oviedo, Spain.

Source: E52, 29 July 2016
The curation of lymphedema:in the medical world it sounds like a desirable goal. But start-up Microsure (Eindhoven - Maastricht) is showing that this is possible with the help of an assistant robot. The developers are Ferry Schoenmakers, Tom Mulken and René van der Hulst.
 

From 24 to 28 July, over 650 game theorists from all over the world will come together for the 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society...

The TOMA (Tomsk-Maastricht) Double Master Program (DDP) of Maastricht University and Tomsk State University (Russia) have been awarded the Rusprix Award.

The endowed chair ‘Taalcultuur in Limburg’ (language culture in Limburg), as a part of FASoS, installed the biennial Dr. Lou Spronck lecture. 

Christophe van Eecke has been awarded one of the five Research Prizes from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for his PhD dissertation titled ‘Pandaemonium: Ken Russell’s Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance’. 

Milena Pavlova has received the AXA Award of € 250,000 for her overall research achievements. Milena works at the Department of Health Services Research as Associate Professor of Health Economics and was granted the AXA Award for her overall research achievements.