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  • Barbara Strating appointed UM Curator

    As of 1 March, Barbara Strating will be the new curator at Maastricht University. She succeeds Mieke Derickx who has retired. Barbara will further develop the collection and create new experiences with art, culture and science.

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  • Big attendance at Bachelor’s Open Day

    Once again, there was great interest in our online Bachelor Open Day, with attendance comparable to last year. Remarkable this time around: an unusually large number of Dutch visitors.

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  • ‘Our European positioning fits like a glove'

    The new UM president, and former rector magnificus, Rianne Letschert leaves no room for doubt. She is delighted with the choice to profile the university as the European university of the Netherlands. Maastricht University forms an international and predominantly European community in a region...

  • Freedom to experiment

    On 1 February, MERLN’s Scientific Director Pamela Habibović succeeds Rianne Letschert as rector of Maastricht University (UM). As she prepares to move to her new office, the professor of Inorganic Biomaterials talks about her engineering mind-set, how interdisciplinarity is crucial but far from easy...

  • Leading actor in the European Parliament

    As a fresh-faced student, Jeroen Lenaers had no idea where a degree in European Studies would take him. The UM alum who simply ‘fell’ into a career in international politics was last year elected by VoteWatch Europe as the most politically influential Dutch MEP.

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  • Official start of FINGER-NL study

    Today marks the official start of the FINGER-NL study, a two-year intervention investigating the effect of a combination of lifestyle modifications on the thinking skills of older people. In the FINGER-NL study, part of the overarching national MOCIA project, five Dutch research centers join forces...

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  • Is Europe becoming a world power?

    The world order is shifting. Putin continues to taunt Europe. China’s global expansionism seems limitless. And how to respond to the United States’ renewed desire for cooperation? The European Union’s answer should be greater strategic autonomy, says Sophie Vanhoonacker, professor of Administrative...

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