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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 still work out unexpected discoveries, seven projects are now receiving a small top-up of up to 30,000 euros per project thanks to NWO's Impact Explorer call. Elia Formisano of Maastricht University is one of the lucky ones.

Over the last few weeks, the world has been holding its breath watching the unfolding drama of the US presidential race, which led to President Joe Biden withdrawing his candidacy and endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris. As recent poll conducted by the New York Times shows that Harris has narrowed the gap that was growing between Biden and the Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Living in Sittard and studying in Maastricht, Eindhoven or even Tilburg or Leiden. A few years ago, this was hard to imagine, but nowadays it is increasingly common. Sometimes out of necessity, but often also as a conscious choice. The rise of more creative places to live outside the traditional student cities makes it more attractive for students to broaden their search for a nice place to live. PITground, behind the railway station in Sittard, is one such place.

“Do you make lists too?” This was one of the first questions that professor of Financial Services Lisa Brüggen asked PhD candidate Jenna Barrett. Her affirmative reply sealed the deal. An inspiring and fruitful partnership ensued, resulting in Barrett’s dissertation ‘Money matters: Understanding and improving financial wellbeing.’ “My research provides new insights into how you can define, measure and improve financial wellbeing.”

Starting this summer, we have two new student employees at UnliMited Students. Read their introductions here.

UnliMited-Students will be present at INKOM this year. You can find us at the information market next to Disability Support on Monday or our collage-making event on Wednesday!

Businesses are trying to become more sustainable in a world with sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity decline and pollution. Project Circular X at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute helps companies that want to experiment with circular and sustainable business models. The team has developed several tools for circularity, sufficiency and regenerative business models.

In his master’s thesis, “Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Data-driven Agriculture through Blockchain Technology,” Daniel Acosta Stasiukynas, MSc Sustainability Science, Policy & Society graduate, explored blockchain technology and its potential to benefit smallholder farmers. In this blog, he summarises his findings.