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  • Limited attention for cross-border policy in Limburg coalition agreements

    Stichting Geen Grens: "New municipal coalitions in Limburg often overlook foreign affairs". The newly appointed municipal authorities in Limburg are aware that their municipality has foreign borders, but many coalitions do not take this into account in their policy plans. This concludes the...

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  • A match made in Maastricht: Alex and Lisa Brüggen

    On 14 September, exactly 17 years after they first met, Lisa and Alex will celebrate becoming Professors Brüggen and Brüggen. The SBE scholars who share a last name and a life together reflect on joint inaugural lectures, coincidence and coffee, private and professional spheres, and Lufthansa’s...

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  • The art of doing maths

    A portrait of Ralf Peeters, professor of Mathematics. Without him, the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, which offers one of UM’s most successful study programmes, would have been swallowed up by another faculty long ago. Not that he’d ever say as much himself. Read on for...

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  • “I learn something new every day”

    Maïs Sweid is from Syria. She lives in Limburg with her husband and five-year-old son and works for the Education Office at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN). Her advice to other refugees: “Meet Dutch people and learn the language as soon as possible.” This is a story about the...

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  • The burdensome fiscal and social security status of highly mobile workers

    Due to globalization and the increasingly integrated nature of regional economies, workers largely operate cross-border on a highly mobile basis. Because of this highly mobile character of activities, difficulties arise regarding the place of exercise of employment for tax purposes, and affiliated...

  • Contemporary Medical Education

    Dr. Anna Harris conducts research on the role of technology in teaching diagnostic skills, mixing the fields of Medicine and Anthropology.

     

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