Alaa Murabit (27) one of the United Nations’ 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals Advocates and the UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth, defines herself as a leader. On 4 September she gave the keynote speech at the opening of the academic year 2017/18 in...
Maastricht University is awarding an honorary doctorate to Jaap van Dissel, professor of internal medicine at Leiden University and director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Control at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
Deze één-op-één cursus is bedoeld voor studenten zonder voorkennis van het Spaans. Je combineert mondelinge sessies met een coach met zelfstandig studeren om je taalvaardigheid te verbeteren.
For his project 'ACCESS4ALL – Why is access to policymakers (not) equal for all lobbyists?' Iskander de Bruycker has received a Vidi grant of €800,000 from NWO. The grant enables him to develop his own innovative line of research and set up a research group.
We are proud to announce that the open executive programmes of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) have been included in the global top 80 by the Financial Times in their Open-enrolment Executive Education Ranking 2024.
How can companies motivate their sales employees to take work-related training aimed at developing their skill sets? “Make them write reviews about their learning experience,” advises Dominik Mahr of Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics in a research paper published in the March...
The newspapers are full of it, the skill gap. We have been trained for years, but the things that really make you better in your profession and are now useful, such as digital skills, were often not included.
In March the German coalition agreed to a subsidy aimed at stimulating young families' own home ownership financially. Only people living in Germany are eligible. What does this mean for taxpaying frontier workers? The Baukindergeld was examined in the framework of ITEM’s annual Cross-border Impact...
On 2 April 2022, the Dutch government launched the “Zet ook de knop om” campaign to encourage households and businesses to save energy with practical tips. Maastricht University has responded to the government's call, yielding positive results!
On 15 and 16 May, MECC Maastricht will become the business epicentre of the Euregion. Not only is it the place to meet successful entrepreneurs and speakers, for two days it will also be the ultimate knowledge centre focusing on the themes circularity & sustainability, digitalisation, talent and...