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Can you still remember the picture of the body of a drowned toddler washed up on the Turkish beach? In September 2015, the image of the Syrian child refugee Alan Kurdi shocked the world. Surely things would change for the better now! However, the outcome was disappointing. With a Veni grant, Lilian...

In September, Ruben Tans, Florentina Pircher, Alexandra Nadasan and Emilia Klebanowski were selected to represent Maastricht University in the ELSA European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (EHRMCC). The aim of this moot court competition is to simulate litigation during the trial of the European...

MCICM networking event with Prof Stephanie Pitts (SPARC, Sheffield, UK) Where can classical music organisations turn in times of declining funding, ageing audiences and an uncertain future? In the project 'Collaborative Ecologies in Creative Cities ', the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of...

Talking about alcohol use helps patients. But how can doctors and other health care providers be encouraged to bring up this topic with their patients? SCALA is investigating whether scaling up an intervention programme for alcohol problems is more effective with municipal action and support.

After careful consideration, Promenade I has emerged as the clear preferred location for the establishment of Maastricht University (UM) in Heerlen. In the coming period, the municipality of Heerlen and UM will jointly investigate the feasibility of this step, which should be accompanied by a...

The UM-initiated 3WE project (‘Well-being, Women and Work in Ethiopia’) studies how employment generated by foreign direct investment (FDI) is affecting the well-being of workers, and women in particular. Especially in Africa, where FDI is becoming one of the main sources of new employment...

The Netherlands stands at the threshold of a monumental task: the decarbonisation of nearly 8 million homes by 2050. As society navigates this transition away from fossil fuels, communities encounter both promising opportunities and significant hurdles. Job Zomerplaag’s PhD project, provisionally...

On Wednesday 8 May, an innovative project to improve cross-border cooperation was launched by Flemish Prime Minister Bourgeois and State Secretary Knops. This project investigates how permits, procedures and other relevant regulations can be better coordinated in order to stimulate cross-border...

This workshop and dialogue session on problem-solving, operability & the accountability overload aims to take a closer look at the current challenges which EU agencies are facing in their operations and to ask the complementary question of whether we must modify the legitimating concept of ‘agency...