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Henrique Marcos (Senior Lecturer in the Foundations of Law department) and Sarah Tas (Assistant Professor in the Public Law department) have received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

The award recognises exceptional work by early-career researchers while honouring her enduring contributions to the study of labour markets, welfare states and comparative political economy, as well as her longstanding commitment to supporting the next generation of scholars.

Dr. Chang Sun received an NWO Veni grant for the project "Generative AI for Causal Treatment-Toxicity Analysis in Rare Blood Cancers ".

The prize particularly honours work that, from a historical perspective, contributes to a deeper understanding of issues relevant to contemporary society. Michiel's PhD research is about “The Petro-Atom: A Century of Ubiquitous Oil Involvement in Nuclear Energy.”

Dr. Joël Karel and his colleagues obtained an NWO Open Competition ENW-XS grant for their project " Let the signals self-calibrate: data-driven inverse problem in electrocardiography".

On 18 June 2026, the ICGI hosted a PhD Workshop in Corporate Law, bringing together researchers from Maastricht University, Tilburg University, and the University of Amsterdam.

Pilots will evaluate an open-source collaboration platform based on LaSuite, a unified collaboration platform built for public employees, as a potential alternative to existing digital workplace solutions.

AISWG members will help develop a future Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) and advance AI-driven scientific discovery.

With funding from the Regio Deal Noord-Limburg II, Maastricht University is stepping up its ambitions in Venlo. Thanks to this investment, the university can further expand its research into robotics and artificial intelligence for autonomous systems in horticulture.

Whereas conventional analyses of democratisation tend to focus on formal institutions, elections and political reforms, this project shifts attention to how democracy is lived and practised in everyday settings such as families, neighbourhoods, workplaces and communities.