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In the upcoming months, we’ll share tips on Instagram for our students on how to live a healthier life. Not just a random collection, but tips based on actual research happening at our faculty. The brains behind this idea are Lieve Vonken and Gido Metz, PhD candidates at CAPHRI, the Care and Public Health Research Institute and researchers at the Department of Health Promotion.

To encourage support staff to broaden their horizon, develop themselves and experience innovative solutions to relevant problems from partners across Europe, Maastricht University has launched an initiative to stimulate its employees to participate in a European staff mobility programme. UM’s Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Coordinator Tamara Aroustamova explains how a couple of days at a partner university can change perspectives and motivate people – and why you should also give it a go. 

EDLAB invites Maastricht University teaching staff to apply for an EDLAB education innovation grant à €5,000,-. The application deadline is Monday 13 November 2023, 12:00 CET.

Interest in the UM Brightlands Talent Scholarship is growing considerably, with applications more than doubling since the first recipients started two years ago.

Intercountry adoption often appears to be the ultimate humanitarian deed. However, the reality is more complex. Dr. Elvira Loibl, assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Law at Maastricht University’s Law Faculty, uncovered significant weaknesses in the Dutch intercountry adoption system.  Her impactful research was awarded the annual Edmond Hustinx prize.

Maastricht University Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, BDO Accountants and Advisors and AFAS Software will conduct research into the challenges and opportunities for Dutch family businesses regarding the ecological sustainability task.

The €29,000 grant was given to develop a shared UM-Zuyd learning space in the context of MERIAN – an already existing collaboration between these institutions and the Jan van Eyck Academy.

Have you noticed the latest addition to the WRDS research data platform during your recent browsing sessions? If not, take a moment to check again—you’re in for some exciting news! Thanks to the generous support from MORSE and individual researchers within SBE, UM researchers now have access to Capital IQ Transcripts data.

In this article, John Harbord, writing advisor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), looks at the patterns of Grammarly use and the writing challenges students face. He also explores the impact of relying on automated tools for developing academic writing skills.

Darian’s research focuses on how philosophy can help us to better understand and steward the co-shaping of technology and politics.