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  • Rewarding smart ideas from students

    What do a radio station, support for psychological problems, a library of things, an app that contains all university activities and a chess club have in common? These are the five ideas that reached the final stage of the Student Idea Competition.

    Student Idea competition
  • New Master in Emerging Markets strengthens UM’s expertise

    Emerging Markets is the latest specialisation in the bachelor’s programmes in International Business and Economics & Business Economics at Maastricht University. New as it may be, it is already popular. It has even spurred on the development of a follow-up programme to be launched next autumn: the...

    emerging markets
  • High attendance at MaasX election debate

    Should the turnout of students in this month’s municipal elections be anywhere near as high as at last night’s event, then the organisers of the MaasX debate will be doubly pleased.

    MaasX verkiezingsdebat
  • Will bitcoin transform our world?

    The Netherlands’ annual Week van het Geld (Week of Money) is inspired by the very worthy (and very Dutch) conviction that it’s never too soon to teach children about money.  But what new financial lessons do the rest of us – undergraduates, academics, citizens, politicians - need to learn? Long...

    Paolo Rodrigues
  • Making Global Citizens in Maastricht

    UM has hosted the first Global Citizenship Education Symposium on 1 March 2018, with more than a hundred students, lecturers and community stakeholders in attendance.

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  • “Do you believe Rens Kroes?”

    Mayonnaise with a blue check mark on the label. Light potato chips. Diet margarine that helps prevent heart attacks. Are these claims even true? And why do people trust Rens Kroes’s lifestyle advice, but don’t trust E-numbers? These are the types of questions that intrigue researcher Alie de Boer.

    alie de boer