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The TOMA (Tomsk-Maastricht) Double Master Program (DDP) of Maastricht University and Tomsk State University (Russia) have been awarded the Rusprix Award.

Penalty shootouts in football could be made fairer by switching the order in which the penalties are taken, according to UM researcher Mehmet Ismail and New York University’s Professor Steven Brams.

A team of researchers at the Maastricht School of Business and Economics (SBE) won the Wetenschapsprijs 2016 (Science Award 2016) by MOA, the Center for Information Based Decision Making & Marketing Research.

This year, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility/ ITEM will start investigating the effects of certain national and European laws and regulations for border regions.

The Maastricht heart failure research team, led by Professor Stephane Heymans

Both Flanders and Germany are considering tolling systems applicable to private vehicles using the Flemish respectively German roads.

Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.

The ‘Maastricht Study’, launched in 2010, reveals that the number of people in the preliminary phase of diabetes is much higher than initially thought: roughly a million people in the Netherlands alone.

Tuna de Maastricht serenaded residents of the nursing home Zeven Bronnen today on behalf of Maastricht University, which is celebrating its 2016 anniversary year.

The development of the Tapijnkazerne grounds is in full swing. Recently the new draft design was presented in a third dialogue session with interested parties.