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  • “The focus on efficiency has gone too far”

    The next few weeks we'll present academics, students and alumni talkin about the upcoming Dutch elections in times of corona. This week Jeroen Kooman, director of EDLAB

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  • Reaching for the stars

    Portrait of Bartel Van de Walle who has been director of UNU-MERIT since September 2020

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  • More than a single story

    Global Studies—the name of the new Maastricht University (UM) bachelor’s programme sounds perfectly Promethean. Yet the concept makes a lot of sense; indeed, it may well be the most pragmatic approach to preparing students for the 21st century.

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  • You can’t be a friend to everyone

    Jaap van Dissel, the government’s chief medical adviser receives an honorary doctorate from Maastricht University

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  • ‘Power to the farmers’

    UM students Vincent and Laura Nieboer, inspired by their father, came up with an accessible concept to help farmers worldwide stop the depletion of agricultural land. They recently pitched their idea at the ‘Little big talks’ on the occasion of the celebration of 80 years of materials science and...

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  • Going ‘back to our core DNA’ with new curriculum for the bachelor’s in Law

    It was a long-held desire: redesigning the curriculum for the bachelor's programme in Rechtsgeleerdheid (Law).' It is a return to the thematic approach, but in a 21st century context. There are no more short cases, but one big project per semester that involves the different types of law. After two...

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  • Extending DigiD access makes life easier for cross-border workers

    Imagine you live in Belgium and have been working in the Netherlands for years. But unlike your Dutch colleagues, you can’t access your pension information online. That is because you are not entitled to a DigiD, which is the identity verification service of the Dutch government. To help make life...

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