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Prof. Dr. Phedon Nicolaides delivered his valedictorian lecture entitled 'Why Should We Trust Them? The European Central Bank in the Age of Digital Money.'

Sarah Schoenmaekers was appointed as Professor of European Economic Law and gave her inaugural lecture titled “Made in Europe’ and ‘Buy European’: From gentle branding to bold commanding?”

Lotus Ariëns, a Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management alumna, received the Catharina Pijls Incentive Prize 2026. Lotus researched the perceived involvement and care burden among family caregivers of people with dementia at green care farms and traditional nursing homes.

Through collaboration with Studio Europa Maastricht, Katleen Gabriels turned her research on children and Snapchat into a policy brief connecting academia and policymakers. The initiative shows how UM structurally translates research into societal impact in Brussels, The Hague and beyond.

Research shows that the muscle blood vessel network is important for healthy ageing. In his doctoral thesis, Milan Betz examined how this blood vessel network affects muscle preservation in older people.

Professor Anique de Bruin has received a Vici grant of €1.5 million from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). De Bruin is receiving the grant for research into students' self-regulatory learning abilities.

Jaap Jansen (MHeNs) investigates how MRI techniques can be used to gain insight into brain mechanisms in both healthy and unwell people.

In the 1970s, the Dutch government deemed university education too far removed from professional practice. So when Maastricht University was founded in 1976, the new institution was tasked with overhauling education. That led to the teaching approach Problem-Based Learning (PBL).

February 24 marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conflict, which reshaped Europe’s sense of security, was high on the agenda at last week’s Munich Security Conference. Studio Europa Maastricht spoke with Dr Petar Petrov about it.

This blogpost covers the second day of the conference on the role and mechanisms of mutual recognition in EU law, which took place on 29 and 30 January 2026.