Each extra hour of daily sedentary time (for example spent sitting at a computer) is associated with 22% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, concludes new research published in Diabetologia.
MCEL associate scholar Florin Coman-Kund has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Europen Union Agencies as Global Actors - A Legal Study of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Frontex and Europol”. His dissertation was supervised by MCEL members Ellen Vos and Andrea Ott.
Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maastricht (UM) in the Netherlands on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary on January 11, 2016.
Charlotte A Campo’s LLB thesis was awarded by the Board of the Stichting Wetenschapsbeoefening UM as last year’s best bachelor thesis of the European Law School.
The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM and Mission Opérationelle Transfrontalière / MOT are working together.
Ruud Hendriks, Ike Kamphof and Tsjalling Swierstra have won ZonMW funding for their project ‘Make-Believe Matters. The Moral Role Things Play in Dementia Care.’
Overweight people who lose a lot a weight in a short amount of time are no more likely to gain weight after dieting than people who lose weight more slowly.
The treatment options available to ventilated patients in Dutch intensive care units needs improving. This was the conclusion drawn by intensive care physician Jan Scholte in his dissertation for which he hopes to obtain his doctoral degree on 28 January at Maastricht University.
It is with great pleasure that the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM announces that per 01.01.2016 mr Martin Unfried ‘ontgrenzer’, has started working parttime for ITEM.