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The Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance is proud to spotlight the crucial role of the YUFE Student Forum in shaping the future of inclusive, accessible, and high-quality European education. 

The call for the YERUN Open Science Awards 2024 is officially open, from 3 December 2024 until 13 January 2025! YERUN extends a warm invitation to researchers and staff from Maastricht University and other member universities to submit their applications. 

As part of the Springer Book Series 'Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market', " Appropriating Sacred Spaces Heritage Politics in Myanmar" by Clara Rellensmann is now available. 

That Stephan Smeekes became a professor of econometrics at the age of 41 is not to say this path is open to anyone with a disability. “Everybody’s different, and so is every disability,” he says. He doesn’t see himself as an ambassador for disabled academics. “But if my story inspires others, that’s a good thing, for sure.” A down-to-earth researcher and devoted teacher, Smeekes learnt from his parents never to give up and to think in terms of solutions. 

Brightlands is affiliated with New Dutch, an alliance that aims to put the Netherlands’ innovative clout on the global map. 

Carlos Mota develops new in vitro models to study kidney diseases at MERLN. For his NEPRHON project, he received the ERC Consolidator Grant.

This semester, the Green Office cultivated the untapped potential of the Community Garden and the Clothing Swap Room. We hope that these Circularity Projects will operate under autonomous, functional organisations by this time next year, with continued support from the Green Office and the SUM2030 team.

Beating the odds: Julien Luyten’ s path to rare bile duct cancer research. Insight story from a NUTRIM PhD and chair of the NUTRIM PhD council.

Last Thursday, a gathering was held at Centre Céramique in Maastricht in memory of Mathieu Segers. Studio Europa reported on this special day.

Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to set up a scientific research team in the coming years for studies on bioprinted models of a human kidney and on female guest workers from southern Europe who came to north-western Europe in the second half of the 20th century.