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This academic year, Maastricht University (UM) is launching a new platform designed to foster open dialogue within its community: OmniUM. 

In the upcoming months, we’ll share tips on Instagram for our students on how to live a healthier life. Not just a random collection, but tips based on actual research happening at our faculty. The brains behind this idea are Lieve Vonken and Gido Metz, PhD candidates at CAPHRI, the Care and Public...

From Monday 19 until Thursday 22 August students will get to know each other and the city of Maastricht.  This week is about getting to know Maastricht, the city where you will meet new people and you will have to learn to find your way around again. Not just at the faculty, the library and the spor...

Living in Sittard and studying in Maastricht, Eindhoven or even Tilburg or Leiden. A few years ago, this was hard to imagine, but nowadays it is increasingly common. Sometimes out of necessity, but often also as a conscious choice. The rise of more creative places to live outside the traditional...

“Do you make lists too?” This was one of the first questions that professor of Financial Services Lisa Brüggen asked PhD candidate Jenna Barrett. Her affirmative reply sealed the deal. An inspiring and fruitful partnership ensued, resulting in Barrett’s dissertation ‘Money matters: Understanding and...

UnliMited-Students will be present at INKOM this year. You can find us at the information market next to Disability Support on Monday or our collage-making event on Wednesday!

Starting this summer, we have two new student employees at UnliMited Students. Read their introductions here.

Businesses are trying to become more sustainable in a world with sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity decline and pollution. Project Circular X at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute helps companies that want to experiment with circular and sustainable business models. The...

The 2024 Turriano Prize from ICOHTEC (the International Committee for the History of Technology) was awarded to Jacob Ward’s book Visions of a Digital Nation (MIT Press, 2024). The Turriano Prize recognises the best first book by an historian of technology. 

Maastricht University has built a new research greenhouse at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. Starting on September 1, research will be conducted in this high-tech greenhouse on the agriculture and horticulture of the future: from new cultivation techniques and the development of plants to the...