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How do lobbyists use disinformation to sway policymakers? Who gets to shape the historical narrative of occupation and violence? Does growing inequality change the way citizens think about politics? And how have politicians defended “truth” across a century of media revolutions?

The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, together with the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), obtained a € 100.000 a Comenius Senior Teaching Fellow grant.

Children at schools with green playgrounds are better able to concentrate and display more social behaviour. This is the conclusion of a follow-up study within the long-running project The Healthy Primary School of the Future .

The Maastricht University Brussels Hub plays a key role in positioning UM as the European University of the Netherlands. A recent example is the conference ITEM organised at the Brussels Hub.

Can you control a robotic arm with your thoughts? Paul Weger (MHeNs) studies this to give back independence to patients with neurological conditions.

On 8 December, the Meet the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights event took place.

Professor Ron Heeren, distinguished university professor at Maastricht University (UM) and director of the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4i), was appointed as a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Thursday 11 December.

Mariam Aroian will visit IGIR for three months, between December 2025 and February 2026. Her current research focuses on copyright and artificial intelligence.

UnRest focuses on the historically significant yet deeply contested archives and artworks associated with Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795) – a Dutch military officer and explorer whose documentation of the Cape region shaped European knowledge of South Africa during the 18th century

Even outside the lecture hall, law student Milou Scholten is committed to justice. As the chair of Students for Equality, she campaigns for accessible education and equal opportunities for all students.