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Take a look at February's sustainability events!!🌿

On 21 and 22 May 2026, the IBFD Academic Tax Conference will take place in Amsterdam, focusing on the theme “Ability to Pay in Tax Law”. The Maastricht Centre for Taxation (MCT) is proud to contribute to this international event.

Happy visitors at Saturday’s Master's Open Day on 28 February 2026, exploring the programmes and learning approach at Maastricht University. Most appreciated the interesting information and the friendliness of the staff.

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.