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Speaking at EDLAB's Continuing Professional Development Kick-Off event on 26 September 2023, Prof. Mairéad Pratschke, Chair in Digital Education at The University of Manchester, encouraged Maastricht University teachers and educators to investigate AI technologies for themselves.

About 675 million people in our world live on less than $2.15 a day, the World Bank’s cut-off for extreme poverty. In Congo, where 70% live in this state, a meal at the local McDonalds alone would cost almost four times more. The management Guru C.K. Prahalad coined the term Base of the Income...

On 11 October 2023, we had the pleasure to host Dr Ane Aranguiz, Assistant Professor of European Labour and Social Security Law at Tilburg University. Aranguiz discussed her current research on “Combating social exclusion in the EU, what role for EU law?”, with Dr. Fulvia Ristuccia, Assistant...

Maastricht University (UM) is a leading advocate for Open Science, promoting transparency, accessibility and collaboration in research and education. Dennie Hebels, UM's Open Science Officer, sheds light on the significance of this movement and its impact on academia and society.

Our team from Maastricht University Faculty of Law won the 2023 Grand Final of the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, ranking 1st out of 53 competing teams. Maastricht University was represented by Benedetta Talpo, James Sinatra,  Sadie...

Another great performance by our students at  Maastricht University Faculty of Law, finishing second in the IBA ICC Moot Court at the International Criminal Court in The Hague 2023. Many congratulations to the entire team, to Maraya being awarded best speaker and to coach Craig Eggett.

Ending the HIV epidemic for those most impacted: women in sub-Saharan Africa. That’s the goal of a collaborative project between Dutch and African researchers. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Aidsfonds recently allocated more than six million euros to fund their plans for the SPIRAL project.

Representatives from Centres for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at 14 Dutch universities convened at EDLAB on 5-6 October 2023, for the 7th CTL network meeting. 

Together with Ania Molenda from Het Nieuwe Instituut, MACCH affiliated researcher Costas Papadopoulos has been awarded an NWO museum grant of €50,000 for the research project ‘Unfolding the Archive: New Dimensions of Access to Born-digital Architecture Collections’.