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Just like last year, students were generally quite positive about the Maastricht University (UM) study programmes. Fourteen of the seventeen themes showed increased appreciation compared to last year, with UM doing particularly well and scoring above average with regard to the new theme of 'internationalisation'.

The student team representing Maastricht University has won the prestigious VAR Moot Court Competition in administrative law for the second year in a row.

Therese Grohnert, PhD candidate at Maastricht University, wanted to know why audit firms sometimes form insufficiently supported judgements on their clients’ financial statements.

Karin Bijsterveld appointed as a member of the KNAW Council for the Humanities

Kei Long Cheung has received an Erasmus+ grant to work at a foreign University.

Following on the insights of participative research into the use of media for improving public mental health in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Maastricht and building on the strong history of Columbian community media, Prof. Klasien Horstman and Em. Prof. Marten de Vries together with the MVI and in collaboration with colleagues of Javariana University, Bogota, developed an interactive media and public mental health training programme.

Prevention of dementia potentially stimulated by drawing up personal risk profile (MUMC+ news).

In 2016, Sjim Romme and Matthijs Bosveld received the UM Student Prize. They are taking a gap year from their studies in 2017/18 so they can get one step closer to their dream: people-focused healthcare in which the symptoms of patients play a central role through people-focused medical education.

During the BIOMEDICA Life Sciences Summit, which took place on 9-10 May in Eindhoven (NL), the Ralf Raue Innovation Award for Life Sciences 2017 was awarded to the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMBIM).

This week, Maastricht University was featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a series about exceptional universities. Amongst other people, the newspaper talked to Professor Michel Dumontier, Professor Hildegard Schneider and Martin Paul, UM’s president.