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  • Students a nuisance? Not during exam week

     Maastricht University president Martin Paul and Maastricht’s mayor, Annemarie Penn-te Strake accompanied the enforcement squad so they could see with their own eyes the situation regarding nuisance caused by student tenants.

    Martin Paul in Maastricht
  • Standing in defence of cultural heritage in armed conflicts

    The destruction of cultural property by the Islamic State in Mosul and Palmyra: is International Law the answer?’, is the title of Alessandra Silva’s bachelor’s thesis. During the Dies celebration last February, the 23-year-old Italian received the thesis prize, as one of seventeen winners, for the...

    Alessandra Silva
  • Team Maastricht wins national medical contest

    On Saturday 13 May, the sixth edition of the largest interfaculty medical contest in the Netherlands was being held: the RFC. Team Maastricht placed first, winning the title of best medical faculty.

    Team Maastricht wins national medical contest
  • Three young UM talents receive NWO funding for PhD research

    Three students of Maastricht University have received the NWO Research Talent funding: Miriam Heynckes, Shanice Janssens and Eveline Vandewal – all three research master’s students in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

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  • 'Nice to meet you, I’m the person behind the patient’

    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.

    Students Going The Extra Mile
  • First Pulse of Europe gathering in Maastricht

    On Sunday 23 April, the first Pulse of Europe gathering in Maastricht took place. This independent pro-European citizens’ initiative aims to counteract populism, and support Europe against disintegration.

    Pulse of Europe - Maastricht