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Professor Wim Gijselaers reflects on 40+ years at Maastricht University's School of Business and Economics, highlighting its rise to international recognition through innovation, problem-based learning and collaboration. As he retires, he celebrates people, lifelong learning and lasting impact.

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.

On the sidelines of the conference The State of Union Law, held at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law on 12 June, Studio Europa Maastricht spoke with Ben Smulders, Dutch judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

SBE researchers Stephan Smeekes and Ines Wilms have received an €800,000 NWO grant to develop Econometric Intelligence, a new methodology that combines econometrics and AI to analyse complex data and support better decision-making.

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.

Many people with cancer lose weight unintentionally. Why does this happen? Marit van Hooren and Niels Ruber believe the bowel is involved.

MaCSBio managed to expand its staff with top researcher Irina Mohorianu. Her move to the Netherlands is funded by the NWO Tulp Fund. NWO also funded Joël Karel’s research into electrocardiographic imaging.

How do our ideas about the future shape the choices we make today? That question lies at the heart of Futures Literacy and forms the basis of her keynote address at the Opening of the Academic Year 2026/27.