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Massimiliano Simons has been awarded a grant from the Evert Willem Beth Foundation for the organisation of a symposium to consolidate and strengthen the Dutch- and Flemish-speaking HOPOS (i.e. International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science) community .

Tullio Viola has been awarded an NWO Open Competition XS grant. He will receive €50,000 for his project ‘Folk Narratives and Social Critique: Recovering an Epistemological Paradigm at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’.

Christian Ernsten, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is part of the consortium awarded a prestigious NWA-ORC grant for the project “Traumascapes: Valuing, Negotiating and Sharing Sites of Trauma, Pain and Loss.” The project has received a total of €6.8 million in funding.

We are proud to announce that Simone Schleper, Flora Lysen, Laura Ogden, and Mirko Heinzel, have each been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

SBE professors Lisa Brüggen and Rob Bauer are part of a national, NWO-funded initiative exploring how Dutch pension funds can accelerate the transition to a sustainable society. The €750,000 project aims to align pension investments with participants’ sustainability preferences and practical legal...

Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Johan Adriaensen and Odile Felkamp have been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant of €400,000 for their research project “Towards EU economic statecraft? Party-political cleavages on geoeconomic instruments”.

Europe’s plans to increase its military capacity are controversial; not so much the if as the how. Maastricht University professors Sophie Vanhoonacker and Rob Bauer differ in their views of how optimistic we can be.

We are pleased to announce that Pauw Vos has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant for the project “Narratives of the Nest: Early Dutch Bird Photography and the Visual Construction of Conservation (1890–1940)”.

Aagje Swinnen (FASoS) and Sarah de Mul (Open University), have been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for the project “ Re-Imagining Burnout and the Cultural Narrative of Productive Adulthood through Literature”.

What drives people to embrace radical conspiracy theories, sometimes with far-reaching consequences for society? During his inaugural lecture on Friday 27 June, Prof. Dr. Jan Willem van Prooijen (radicalisation, extremism, and conspiracy thinking) will address this urgent question.