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Herco Fonteijn received €250,000 from the NWO to advance global citizenship education.

Ruud Pijls defended his PhD dissertation 29 November 2019 at Maastricht University.

In the Netherlands, a citizen assistance system is employed that consists of citizens who are summoned to aid victims of a cardiac arrest. This dissertation shows that the system increases the chance of survival of sudden cardiac arrest (with cardiac cause) outside the hospital.

UM Pride offers a safe, inclusive and supportive platform for all LGBTQ and allied students and staff members of Maastricht University. Co-founder Stephanie Blom and project leader Alexander Dieleman talk about their contribution to fostering a diverse community.

A Maastricht Science Programme alumna won the Darwin thesis award at the National Biology Students Conference 2019.

More than 100 enthusiastic and curious citizens from Meerssen (municipality north of Maastricht) visited the Visietheek, a pop-up store in Meerssen on November 21st. Each one of them shopped his or her personal dream centre for Meerssen together, built on inspiring examples from elsewhere.

The three Liberal Arts colleges of Maastricht University retain their top positions in the Keuzegids Bachelors 2020.

A love for Japanese culture snowballed into a London conference trip for Lianne Hufkens, master's student Artificial Intelligence.

On 21 and 22 November, the fifth annual conference, so an anniversary edition, of ITEM took place in the Province of Overijssel. Policy makers, politicians and scientists came together in Enschede to build cross-border cooperation.

Anne's extra mile in health: Training your mind for sustainable weight loss The “Eat-Lab” –officially the Research Group Eating Disorders & Obesity – which is headed by Anne, conducts different kinds of research into behaviour and psychological processes in relation to abnormal eating and obesity ( www...