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Athletes must warm up and concentrate before any performance. Why, then, do we expect our students to instantly become active when they enter a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) session? 

UNU-MERIT celebrates the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their groundbreaking work on technological change and economic growth. In this reflection, Luc Soete and Bart Verspagen explore the laureates’ connections to UNU-MERIT’s four decades...

Mark Sanders reflects on his personal encounters with Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, explaining why their research on innovation-driven economic growth deserves the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics and how their work advances the Schumpeterian tradition.

Tania Treibich examines the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates’ contributions to understanding the dynamics of innovation, showing how their research demonstrates that technological change, entrepreneurial investment, and competition are central to sustained economic growth.

DigiMach is a transnational 3-year collaborative approach that will transform manufacturing across the Meuse-Rhine region by bringing AI, IoT, and robotics to small and medium-sized enterprises in the machining sector. The project will assist more than 150 SMEs to adopt smart, digital tools, through...

Whether a specific intervention to create a smoke-free outdoor environment is effective or not has been widely studied. However, to improve compliance, policymakers need to understand how smokers react to those interventions and the factors influencing their compliance. 

As of 15 October 2025, Martin Unfried will become the new Director of the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross-Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM). He succeeds Professor Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn, who has developed ITEM over the past ten years with great enthusiasm and determination.

The latest Maastricht University Graduate Surveys 2025 once again show that our graduates look back positively on their studies.

Effective October 1st, Elvira Loibl has been appointed Endowed Professor of Recognition, Dialogue, and Recovery After Intercountry Adoptions at the University of Humanistic Studies. The chair is established by the INEA Expertise Center for Intercountry Adoption.