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On Friday, April 22, the MORSE 2021 Thesis Awards ceremony took place, introduced by a lecture on "How to write an impactful thesis" by Dr Therese Grohnert. The second part of the event was dedicated to the awarding of the 2021 MORSE thesis awards.

MORSE (Maastricht Observatory on Resilient, Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise and Economy), an SBE Spearhead program, had its Launch Week from 25 – 29 October. During this week, there were lectures from valued speakers, inaugural lectures from MORSE members, panel discussions with Students and...

With today's energy prices, you almost don't dare turn on your heating. Yet for many, solar panels and a heat pump still sound like an expensive joke.

The years-long decline in basic skills of language, mathematics and citizenship in education must be stopped.

On May 25 2022, the first physical meeting of the research project TransB took place at Fifth in Eindhoven. During the meeting, researchers from Maastricht University (UM), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), KWR and Bram Heijkers from Platform STAD met to discuss a toolbox for multiple value creation

Already three years ago, two challenges were introduced to a certain group of households in Maastricht and in Roermond: to reduce indoor temperature to a maximum of 18 °C (‘heating challenge’) and half the number of weekly laundry cycles relative to a baseline (‘laundry challenge’). In this article, we...

Hbo-afgestudeerden doen het in de regel nog steeds goed op de arbeidsmarkt. Dat blijkt uit de jaarlijkse HBO-Monitor van het Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA) van de Universiteit Maastricht.

SBE researchers Kimberley van der Heijden, Anouk Festjens, Caroline Goukens and NYU researcher Tom Meyvis recently published their findings on how individuals experiencing financial pressure make decisions. These findings challenge the traditional research notion that less wealthy people pick short...

Due to the teacher shortage, there are more and more opportunities to obtain a teaching certificate more quickly. What does this do to the quality of education?