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  • Maastricht University to support medical education in Ethiopia

    Maastricht University plans to support a large-scale project to improve medical education in Ethiopia. EP-NUFFIC/NICHE, an organisation that promotes international collaboration in the field of higher education, has earmarked half a million euros for this project. 

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  • Major European grant for professor Clemens van Blitterswijk

    Clemens van Blitterswijk, professor of Complex Tissue Regeneration at Maastricht University, has been awarded the most prestigious European research grant for individual researchers: the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.

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  • Rubicon grant for UM researcher Jessica Alleva

    Jessica Alleva, a researcher at Maastricht University's Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, was awarded a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). 

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  • What is dialect for young and old in Limburg?

    Does dialect mean the same for everyone in Limburg? And does dialect hinder the acquisition of the Dutch language? As part of the anniversary celebrations of Maastricht University (40 years) and the University Fund Limburg (50 years), Professor Leonie Cornips will raise the above questions during...

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  • Politics turns a deaf ear to science

    'The tension between the scientific and political communities is generating fascinating insights,' says Gerjo Kok, who delivered his valedictory speech as professor of Applied Psychology at Maastricht University on 8 April. '

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  • ITEM comments on proposal Posted Workers Directive

    Posting of workers has become a common phenomenon in the EU. Since the mid-1990’s it is regulated by the Directive on posting of workers (96/71/EC). The directive aims at striking a balance between the freedom to provide services on the one hand and the protection of workers, the persons who...

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