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The Living Lab Rehabilitation is celebrating its tenth anniversary. What has been achieved during that time, and what lies ahead in the coming years? “We want to make rehabilitation an integral part of the healthcare landscape,” says Jeanine Verbunt.

Anna Harris, recently inaugurated professor of Anthropology and Medicine, has travelled a long way—from medical training on the other side of the world to research that explores how the senses and material creativity shape medical practice.

Studio Europa Maastricht spoke with Michael Shackleton, Emeritus Professor of European Institutions at Maastricht University and former Member of the European Parliament Secretariat, about the new political identities Brexit created and the current state of EU–UK relations.

Dr. Rohan Nanda and Dr. Henrique Marcos received a Comenius Teaching Fellows ho 2026 grant for their project ‘AI Due Diligence lab for the Blue Economy (BlueLab)’.

Congratulations: Best Demo Award at BioSB 2026 for Marvin Martens!

Virtual Human Platform officially launched

On 12 June 2026, Rector Magnificus Jan Smits signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information on behalf of Maastricht University (UM), reaffirming UM’s commitment to more transparent, accessible and responsible research information.

FHML implemented the first internship in the Netherlands, where students participate in a societal or healthcare organisation, without their white coat.

Studio Europa Maastricht spoke with Olga Zvonareva, Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Ethics, and Society at Maastricht University and author of “Divided Publics: Digital Media and Public Participation in Wartime Russia”. Her work examines volunteer humanitarian networks in Russia.

'One Size Fits None: Effectiveness and Acceptability of Personalized Transparency and Privacy Assistance in the United States, the European Union, and China'.