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Maastricht researchers argue that urgent measures are needed to tackle loneliness in society. Aside from their mental welfare needs, people who suffer from severe or very severe loneliness incur 40 to 50 percent higher healthcare costs up to a year later compared to people who don’t feel lonely. The...

Maastricht University has won the SURF Security and Privacy Award. The prize has been awarded for the open way in which the university shared its knowledge and experience about the serious ransomware attack that took place just before Christmas 2019.

Scientists from Maastricht UMC+ and the German Max Planck Institute have succeeded in stimulating brain areas via a magnetic field in mice injected with electrically charged nanoparticles.

Dr Matteo Bonelli has become the winner of the UM Dissertation Prize for his thesis "A Union of Values: Safeguarding Democracy, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in the EU Member States". 

Care for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in dementia patients needs to improve! Sjacko Sobczak works as a psychiatrist in elderly care at Mondriaan and as a senior researcher at MHeNs. 

Students and Mariaberg residents have teamed up to build a chicken coop. The first 10 chickens moved in...

A recent study states that for women in procurement, the pay gap is 21% and that even increases to 35% for higher procurement positions. With no difference in performance in terms of quality, companies need to mind this gap!

The bachelor’s programme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence now offers the opportunity – in collaboration with Brightlands-based BSSC and BISS – for third-year students to complete a semester project with a company or organization.