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On 26-27 May 2017, MCEL and METRO member Prof. Dr. Marjan Peeters delivered a presentation at the Chinese university of Hongkong entitled “Regulatory experiences in EU climate law: legal lessons for other economies?” as a contribution to the conference “The 60th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome: EU...

On 9 and 10 June, European Studies will hold a jubilee celebration with alumni, students and staff, to celebrate its 15 year anniversary.

On Thursday 1 and Friday 2 June, football club MVV Maastricht will organise the Maastricht United Gamin Cup, a youth tournament for the U19 category (A-youth) that applies the so-called ‘Catch-Up Rule’.

NWO has awarded a Vidi grant worth 800.000 euro to six experienced UM researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros: prof. dr. Pamela Habibovic (FHML/MERLN), dr. Joost Lumens (FHML), dr. Ann Meulders (FPN), dr. Benedikt Poser (FPN), dr. Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling (FHML), and dr. Stephan Smeekes (SBE).

The University attaches great importance to a good work-life balance for all UM employees. There is broad consensus that employees should take sufficient time off. Therefore all employees received an e-mail from the Board regarding accrual, registration and use of holiday leave.

On Saturday 13 May, the sixth edition of the largest interfaculty medical contest in the Netherlands was being held: the RFC. Team Maastricht placed first, winning the title of best medical faculty.

Three students of Maastricht University have received the NWO Research Talent funding: Miriam Heynckes, Shanice Janssens and Eveline Vandewal – all three research master’s students in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

A brain scan that allows you to see what sound a person has heard. Researchers from Maastricht University have recently achieved a world first by reconstructing heard sound based on a person’s brain activity.

The results of the annual National Student Survey (NSE) held in January 2017 are again very satisfactory. Like in previous years, we requested our students to make their voices heard by participating in this survey. We are very pleased that so many of them responded to our appeal again.