Reconnecting the brain and body: how to control devices with your thoughts
Can you control a robotic arm with your thoughts? Paul Weger (MHeNs) studies this to give back independence to patients with neurological conditions.
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Reducing the Digital Divide: Empowering Students to Train, Evaluate, and Use AI Text Models
The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, together with the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), obtained a € 100.000 a Comenius Senior Teaching Fellow grant.
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Four FASoS researchers awarded NWO XS grants
How do lobbyists use disinformation to sway policymakers? Who gets to shape the historical narrative of occupation and violence? Does growing inequality change the way citizens think about politics? And how have politicians defended “truth” across a century of media revolutions?Researchers
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Green school playgrounds boost concentration and wellbeing
Children at schools with green playgrounds are better able to concentrate and display more social behaviour. This is the conclusion of a follow-up study within the long-running project The Healthy Primary School of the Future .
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Meet the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights
On 8 December, the Meet the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights event took place.
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Mariam Aroian guest researcher at IGIR
Mariam Aroian will visit IGIR for three months, between December 2025 and February 2026. Her current research focuses on copyright and artificial intelligence.
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Ron Heeren appointed fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering
Professor Ron Heeren, distinguished university professor at Maastricht University (UM) and director of the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4i), was appointed as a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Thursday 11 December.UM news
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Milou: “Studying is still often a privilege’’
Even outside the lecture hall, law student Milou Scholten is committed to justice. As the chair of Students for Equality, she campaigns for accessible education and equal opportunities for all students.
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Christian Ernsten awarded funding for project on recurating colonial-era collections
UnRest focuses on the historically significant yet deeply contested archives and artworks associated with Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795) – a Dutch military officer and explorer whose documentation of the Cape region shaped European knowledge of South Africa during the 18th centuryResearchers
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CoCoDa project receives funding from Swiss National Science Foundation
Konrad Kollnig and Gijs van Dijck , together with partners at the University of St. Gallen, the University of Lausanne, and the Open Data Institute, were awarded a €1.2M project by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for their research project CoCoDa.
