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The finishing line of Green Impact, UM’s sustainability competition, is fast approaching. The Faculty of Science and Engineering’s team is doing very well - even if their numbers-based approach at times fretted against the general focus on awareness over solutions…

D. Prévost, I. Alexovičová, J. Hillebrand Pohl, Restoring Trust in Trade: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Peter Van den Bossche (Hart, 2018)

A. Kamperman Sanders, A. Moerland, C. Heath, Intellectual Property Rights as Obstacles to Legitimate Trade? (Kluwer International, 2018)

Dilek Kurban has been awarded one of the five Research Prizes from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for her PhD dissertation titled ‘The Limits of Transnational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights, Turkey and the Kurdish Conflict’. Dilek earned his doctorate from the Faculty of Law on 23 February 2018. The prize comes with a €3,000 grant and a certificate.

N. Blokhuis, C.A.M. Mulder, Smart in C : A simple and efficient methodology for paper C of the European qualifying examination (Helze BV Publisher, 2018)

The project by master's students Debbie Markusse and Rachita Munshi won a prize in the annual 'Stadsgoud' competition, organised by the Elisabeth Strouven Fonds.

In 2018, European Studies alum Joost van den Akker became one of the regional ministers of Limburg, “the most international province of the Netherlands”. In his eyes, the university is a “European musketeer” whose pursuit of internationalisation and Europe is a winning model.

ITEM researcher Martin Unfried presented the research results of the North Sea Port project to the Belgian ambassador to the Netherlands, Mr Dirk Achten, on 17 April 2019.  

Avila, G. T., The Caribbean Community Preferential Trade Agreement: Is there a legal obligation to create trade? (2019)