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As of 1 July 2025, Pamela Habibović, UM’s Rector Magnificus, will join the Executive Board of Universities of the Netherlands (UNL). 

ITEM enters new phase within UM Faculty of Law from 2025.

The Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance has successfully concluded its YUFE Ideas Lab, a six-month international incubation programme designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship among students.

The IGIR seminar series will be launched after the Summer break. Our aim is to offer a nice and friendly environment for staff members and visiting researchers to present their ongoing research.

What attracts international students to Limburg? And what does the Brightlands ecosystem mean for their education, research and future? In this series, we speak with students from all over the world who are shaping their careers at or through Brightlands. Lazar Barta is one of these students.

Writer Frank Nellen and researcher Suzanne Kooloos are joining forces to delve into the special book collections of Radboud University and Maastricht University. Their research will serve as inspiration for a joint artistic project. The writer and researcher will be given free rein and will report...

We are proud to announce that three projects have received funding from the Global Citizenship for Sustainable Development network at Maastricht University.

What drives people to embrace radical conspiracy theories, sometimes with far-reaching consequences for society? During his inaugural lecture on Friday 27 June, Prof. Dr. Jan Willem van Prooijen (radicalisation, extremism, and conspiracy thinking) will address this urgent question.

Last night a UM building at the Bouillonstraat was daubed with paint and slogans. A sad expression of vandalism. UM has filed a report.

Niloofar Tahmasebi Birgani, assistant professor at the MERLN research institute, was born in southern Iran. It was only when she moved to the Netherlands in 2010 for her PhD research that she began cooking for herself. Instead of recipes, she uses intuition and memory to bring her mother’s and...