Maastricht University (UM) is located at the heart of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. The borders are barely visible, but that does not mean that they can’t put a brake on the development of the region. UM is committed to making these obstacles visible and, on the basis of scientific research, initiating...
UM is the coordinator of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance, a major strategic partnership between ten young, research-intensive universities from as many European countries. The YUFE alliance, together with its four non-governmental and private sector partners, aims at...
Ice baths are 'hot'. In a portrait of an ice bath-taker in the Telegraaf, UM professor Wouter van Marken Lichtenbeld explains what we do and don't know about the effect of an ice bath on the body. Read the article and the explanation.
Recently, ZonMw awarded a grant worth 742.000 euros to Marieke Spreeuwenberg and her team to develop a measurement scale for integrative health approaches.
At the beginning of 2021, Rabobank and Microsoft officially announced their decision to join forces to create Rabo Carbon Bank (RCB), an online marketplace for carbon trading (Hoff, 2021). Building on Rabobank's origins as a farmers' bank and Microsoft's position as an IT leader, the Rabo Carbon...
In the G30, thirty students from Maastricht University will work together on a creative piece of work about the future of Europe. As part of this project, they will follow workshops and meet various leading European politicians, policy makers and opinion leaders.
In the Springer Book Series 'Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market', this book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume. In particular, it aims at developing...
Lex Greeven, PhD candidate at the department for Gravitational Wave and Fundamental Physics wins poster prize at NWO Physics@Veldhoven
As a fresh-faced student, Jeroen Lenaers had no idea where a degree in European Studies would take him. The UM alum who simply ‘fell’ into a career in international politics was last year elected by VoteWatch Europe as the most politically influential Dutch MEP.
As of February 1, 2022, Prof. Lorenzo Moroni has been appointed as interim scientific director of MERLN, for a period of 6 months.
