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The Centre for European Research in Maastricht – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (CERiM) is a newly created research platform for collaboration that brings together more than one hundred researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.

The budget cuts facing the Public Prosecution Service until 2018 are threatening the organisation's ability to function.

UM to head research on customer-friendly system in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium as of 2016

On 1 October 2015 Bastiaan Kemp, former PhD-fellow at the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies (ICGI), was appointed Assistant Professor of Company Law at our faculty (department Private Law) and as Research Fellow at ICGI.

Two UM teams are shortlisted for the Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards 2015. The first team, consisting of Catalina Goanta, Gwen Noteborn and Bram Akkermans of the Law faculty was nominated for their project ‘Implementing Wearables in the Classroom: Making IT Real’.

Maastricht University aims to help refugees start their lives in the Netherlands by facilitating their access to higher education.

The Department of Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University once again received a major commission from a drug manufacturer, this time the Japanese company Eisai, to test the effects of a sleeping drug on driving ability.

Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality.

On Thursday 8 October the NBA-VRC organized their annual congress ‘Dag van de Financial’ in Den Bosch. Part of this program was the presentation of the VRC Thesis Award 2015.

The tidy room with its empty desk reflects the organised mind of its occupant. Professor of Econometrics Franz Palm talks about his field with infectious enthusiasm, though in carefully chosen words.