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As many as ten young UM researchers have been awarded a Veni grant worth up to €320,000 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). 

SBE professors Lisa Brüggen and Rob Bauer are part of a national, NWO-funded initiative exploring how Dutch pension funds can accelerate the transition to a sustainable society. The €750,000 project aims to align pension investments with participants’ sustainability preferences and practical legal...

Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Johan Adriaensen and Odile Felkamp have been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant of €400,000 for their research project “Towards EU economic statecraft? Party-political cleavages on geoeconomic instruments”.

We're happy to announce that Maastricht University has been awarded a €80,000 funding to strengthen its involvement in Npuls.

Europe’s plans to increase its military capacity are controversial; not so much the if as the how. Maastricht University professors Sophie Vanhoonacker and Rob Bauer differ in their views of how optimistic we can be.

From inspiring keynotes to bold classroom experiments, this year’s edition reminded us all: Learning never stops. 

We are pleased to announce that Pauw Vos has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant for the project “Narratives of the Nest: Early Dutch Bird Photography and the Visual Construction of Conservation (1890–1940)”.

In this video, Niels van Best explains his research on how bacteria from nature can strengthen the immune system of young infants.

Tim Welting (CAPHRI) and his team will develop human cell-based models to accelerate development of osteoarthritis medication.

Natasha Lawrie, a bachelor’s student from the Maastricht Science Programme, conducted her thesis research in the rainforests of Sabah. There she made surprising discoveries about the feeding habits of the endangered Bornean elephant.