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The YERUN Research Mobility Awards (YRMA) return with a refreshed approach for the 2024-2025 edition, offering opportunities for impactful research collaborations across the YERUN network.

“You look young for your age!”, “Young people are innovative” or “Population ageing is a problem”. These are all statements that express wrongful assumptions about age. Prof. dr. Aagje Swinnen holds a chair with specialised remit in Ageing Studies at UM. She studies the cultural meaning behind...

Caroline Bouvier likes to look beyond the image. Or more accurately, beneath it. A postdoctoral researcher from Paris, she is less interested in what a painting depicts—the iconography—than in the chemical processes behind the composition.

Ever thought about how the European Central Bank (ECB) makes decisions that impact the whole European
economy? On October 9th, a group of roughly 80 ambitious students from the Financial Economics Master’s programme of Maastricht University got the rare chance to step inside the ECB and see the world...

In this article, Stefanie Roost explains why Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson deserve the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics and shares her enthusiasm for the laureates' works.

SBE academics Diederik de Boer, Julius Gatune, and Andre Dellevoet dive into the works of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson.

In this article, you will find three opinion pieces by SBE academics eager to share their thoughts on this year's Nobel Prize in Economics winners, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson, for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. 

Two Maastricht University (UM) scientists will receive a €850,000 Vidi grant for their research projects. This was announced by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) on Thursday. Researcher Laure Wynants (CAPHRI/ FHML) will work with her team on more reliable AI models for healthcare. And neuroscientist...

On 1 October, the Keti Koti Tafel foundation, OmniUM and D&I Office organised the first ever UM Keti Koti Dialogue Table. People of all backgrounds came together to discuss personal experiences with racism, discrimination and exclusion. The event culminated a safe space for all to really listen...