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PhD candidate Myrthe Eussen works on the CAREFREE project and researches ways to reduce the environmental impact of the operating room.

Medical student Julia Schepers has known she has dyslexia since high school. When she started her studies at Maastricht University three years ago, she went straight to Disability Support to ask for guidance. 

Elia Formisano, professor of Neural Signal Analysis, together with his colleague Bruno Giordano at CNRS, France, have received the highly coveted Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. The project is titled Natural Auditory SCEnes in Humans and Machines (NASCE): Establishing the Neural...

Voor het UMagazine gingen we in gesprek met Peter De Weerd, hoogleraar en programmaleider van de nieuwe bachelor Brain Science. 

The world is facing challenges that demand urgent and comprehensive action. These grand challenges require us to rethink how we address long-term societal impacts. As these challenges intensify, there is a growing recognition that our ability to anticipate, prepare for, and shape future outcomes is...

In October 2024, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law published the Special Issue "The Future of EU Fundamental Rights", co-edited by Šejla Imamović, Elin Börjedal and Eleonora Di Franco. 

The purpose of this workshop is to gather empirical accounts and theoretical reflections, and to develop possibilities for interventions at different levels (design, policy, political action).

The NWO XS grants are worth a maximum of €50,000 and enable proposals for curiosity-driven, innovative research.

In October 2024, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law published the Special Issue "The Future of EU Fundamental Rights", co-edited by MCEL members Šejla Imamović, Elin Börjedal and Eleonora Di Franco. 

Earlier this year, a medical school in New York City received a billion-dollar bequest from the widow of a wealthy investor. An eye-watering sum—but donating to universities is not out of the ordinary in the Anglo-American tradition. Donations of that size are unheard of in the Netherlands, but...