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  • Extra research groups to strengthen top institutes MERLN and M4i

    DThe multimillion-euro investment in the LINK programme by the Province of Limburg, Maastricht University (UM) and Maastricht UMC+ (MUMC+) has achieved its targets. And the LINK programme is to have a sequel: UM and MUMC+ will be investing eight million euros in MERLN and M4i in the coming years to...

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  • Project meeting TransB

    On May 25 2022, the first physical meeting of the research project TransB took place at Fifth in Eindhoven. During the meeting, researchers from Maastricht University (UM),  the University of Amsterdam (UvA), KWR and Bram Heijkers from Platform STAD met to discuss a toolbox for multiple value...

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  • Three years later… What are the habits and routines of our ENERGISE-households?

    Already three years ago, two challenges were introduced to a certain group of households in Maastricht and in Roermond: to reduce indoor temperature to a maximum of 18 °C (‘heating challenge’) and half the number of weekly laundry cycles relative to a baseline (‘laundry challenge’). In this article...

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  • Helping highly educated refugees find work is a win-win situation

    A screaming labour shortage or not, a job is often not an option for highly qualified status holders. In 2020, for example, only 16 percent of the highly educated Syrian refugees had a job (compared to 81 percent of the highly educated Dutch).

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  • Transparency in the Carbon Market

    What are companies' voluntary offsetting claims based on? How can we distinguish between good and bad? And what is the role of consumers, whose perceptions are at the core of companies' motivations to offset emissions?
    Emma van de Ven, Strategy Lead at ACORN (Rabobank), was interviewed to explain...

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  • Bart Zwegers publishes book about UNESCO World Heritage

    In the Springer Book Series 'Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market', MACCH affiliated researcher Bart Zwegers has published the book Cultural Heritage in Transition: A Multi-Level Perspective on World Heritage in Germany and the United Kingdom, 1970-2020, which introduces the multilevel...

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  • Lost to the archives

    In November 2021, four students of Maastricht University were selected to participate in an exclusive masterclass at the Maastricht Science Programme. Led by Goldschmidt, the students were given the opportunity to study the letters of Dubois: a local scientist who ultimately provided the first...

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