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No less than 1.2 million homes must be built before 2030. That is almost 6 times Tilburg that needs to be added.

The Netherlands is becoming less religious, but according to anthropologist Michiel van Well, religion is not disappearing from our society: it only appears in a different guise, namely in the form of technology.

PhD thesis written by Prashant Sabharwal.
The Jurisprudential Response of the National Constitutional Courts of Germany, France and the United Kingdom to the Primacy Doctrine of the Court of Justice of the European Union from 2005 to 2015 – and the Lessons to be Learnt.

When the new lockdown came into effect in November and students were stuck in their rooms once again, it quickly became clear that something had to be done to support them. Margriet Schreuders, director of the Student Services Centre, and her colleagues understood this as well as anyone

On 1 February, MERLN’s Scientific Director Pamela Habibović succeeds Rianne Letschert as rector of Maastricht University (UM). As she prepares to move to her new office, the professor of Inorganic Biomaterials talks about her engineering mind-set, how interdisciplinarity is crucial but far from easy...

The average societal costs of people with obesity and overweight are almost  €11.500 per year. This leads to a total cost for the Netherlands of more than €79 billion per year. This is the outcome of the study Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of...

Studio Europa and the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), also based in Maastricht, have been selected to host a pan-European citizens' summit in Maastricht on 11 to 13 February as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

The new UM president, and former rector magnificus, Rianne Letschert leaves no room for doubt. She is delighted with the choice to profile the university as the European university of the Netherlands. Maastricht University forms an international and predominantly European community in a region...

The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music is currently working on the forthcoming publication ‘Futuring Classical Music’ based on the 2021 symposium theme.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has appointed Angelique Palmen as a member of the UM Supervisory Board for a period of four years.