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  • The Foundation Programme: laying a foundation for your studies in Maastricht

    When you have completed your secondary school education in a non-EU country, the opportunity to attend university in Maastricht is naturally quite exciting. The only catch is that your diploma may not meet the requirements in the Netherlands. Which is why Maastricht University is offering the...

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  • Extracting spells in Harry Potter

    How many spells are cast by the characters in the seven Harry Potter books? That’s what master’s students of Data Science for Decision Making Moritz Haine and Markus Dienstknecht wanted to find out in celebration of Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary. To answer their question, they used text mining, an...

    Harry Potter
  • The Garden of Eden is in Maastricht

    The study association of the master's programme in Sustainability, Science and Policy, ASAP, has kept a community garden for about four years in Maastricht on the Mergelweg. Under the inspiring leadership of Colin Laviolette, around eight students maintain the garden. 

    Urban Gardening
  • 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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