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Research is frequently governed by procedures and regulations. For instance, all research that involves human participants or personal data conducted at FHML/Maastricht UMC+ must undergo ethics review. Moreover, certain types of research require specific procedures, such as regulations related to the access to genetic resources.

Research facilities, services and procedures

Ethics Review Committees

All research involving human participants or personal data conducted in FHML/Maastricht UMC+ should be submitted for ethical review. This applies to research subject to the WMO, non-WMO research, and research involving animals.

Nagoya protocol

The Nagoya Protocol concerns regulations regarding access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization to the convention on biological diversity. This international agreement ensures benefit-sharing on the use of genetic resources.

The EmbedterLabs project seeks to understand:

how to better translate and embed into policy the lessons learned from sustainable mobility infrastructure experiments, and,
how to shape these experiments to better inform broader learning processes in just and sustainable urban transitions.

The UM team—consisting of Dr. Marc Dijk, Dr. Anique Hommels, and Dr. Denver Vale Nixon—will focus primarily on sustainable mobility infrastructural experiments in Maastricht. The project is funded by NWO/ JPI Urban Europe.

Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are on-the-ground experiments that attempt to innovate physical and social infrastructures in support of socially just and environmentally sustainable urban transformations. More simply, they test ideas for positive changes in the urban environment in the streets themselves. These ‘in situ’ trials give the public an opportunity to try out and ‘try on’ potential changes in their city’s environments.

However, a major shortcoming in contemporary urban planning is that the lessons learned from ULLs commonly fail to translate into city-wide policies and urban transformations, in part because of their context specificity. This unfortunately leaves them with limited impact.

To attend to this shortcoming, EmbedterLabs will investigate past and present ULL sustainable mobility experiments in Maastricht, Stockholm, and Gdansk using both retrospective analyses and action research that includes new co-creation experiments. Action research and co-creation mean that the researchers and variety of stakeholders, including the public, are involved in the experiments from conception to completion. Conclusions from this investigation will inform the design of a new approach to urban experiments. This novel approach will lubricate the policy integration of lessons learned from ULLs by preparing otherwise very niche experiments to better speak to broader policy. In turn, better embedding of these lessons in policy increases societal capacity for broader sustainable transformation.

EmbedterLabs is an international collaboration funded through NWO/ JPI Urban Europe and coordinated by Maastricht University. The project responds to the ERA-Net Urban Transformation Capacities scheme. EmbedterLab’s partner universities and public sector institutions are the Gdansk University of Technology, the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Uppsala University, Lund University and the municipalities of Maastricht, Stockholm, and Gdansk. NGO, quasi-governmental and private sector collaborators include Maastricht Bereikbaar, Community of Gdansk Foundation, Olivia Business Centre, and SWECO.

The Maastricht University (MU) team consists of Dr. Marc Dijk and Dr. Denver Vale Nixon from the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (MSI) and Dr. Anique Hommels from the Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The MU team will focus primarily on sustainable mobility infrastructural experiments in Maastricht.

The project will reach completion in 2025.

For more information please contact either Dr. Denver Vale Nixon ( /denver.nixon@maastrichtuniversity.nl ) or Dr. Marc Dijk ( /m.dijk@maastrichtuniversity.nl ).

This year, the University Fund Limburg launches the brand new Equity and Inclusion Programme. The goal: promoting equal educational opportunities by offering scholarships and supporting equality projects within UM. Together with an enthusiastic student team, we want to put this topic in the spotlights and raise donations.

Would you like to contribute to equality, by proactively developing (funding)activities in order to raise awareness and donations, together with a team of like-minded students? Join ‘Students for Equality’! Together we will make education at UM accessible to all young people - regardless of their background, gender identity or socio-economic status.

At the end of March, a first meeting is scheduled.
Are you interested? Leave your contact details via the form, and we’ll get in touch with you. We are looking forward to it!

Join Students for Equality

As the European University of the Netherlands, advanced research on European affairs is a major focus of Maastricht University’s research community. ‘Europe in a Globalising World’ is one of our four major research themes and is integral to the efforts at our faculties.

Finding state-of-the-art solutions for Europe’s challenges of tomorrow

By encouraging cooperation between faculties, and by conducting research at the intersection of disciplines, Maastricht University (UM) invests in finding innovative and state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges facing the Europe of today and tomorrow. From major transition issues like the European Green Deal and the development in digitisation in order to stay competitive on the world stage to the geopolitical role of Europe.

For example, Studio Europa Maastricht (SEM) pursues an interdisciplinary research agenda that ranges from democracy, politics, security and rule-of-law to knowledge, technology and digitalisation. Or there’s the research programme Politics and Culture in Europe (PCE) at our Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), where researchers study the European Union and Europeanisation, contribute to debates on multilateralism and the global order, and explore narratives in transnational history.

Institutes for Europe-themed research

Maastricht University has become an expertise centre on Europe for people from all over the world and a living lab for international and intercultural collaboration.

UM has many research institutes devoted to Europe and the European Union, researching topics ranging from politics to European law, from migration and cross-border mobility to governance and history. These include:

Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM)

A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence creating joint projects and events in the fields of European law, governance, and their respective history.

Maastricht European Centre on Privacy & Cybersecurity (ECPC)

Conducts the study of European law from an interdisciplinary, transnational, multilingual, constitutional & political context

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Institute for Transnational & Euregional cross border cooperation & Mobility (ITEM)

Incorporates research, counselling, knowledge-exchange, and training activities in the domain of cross-border mobility and cooperation.

Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM)

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration & Development (MACIMIDE)

A collaborative organisation of interdisciplinary experts on cross-border mobility, citizenship, transnationalism, migration and development.

Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL)

Committed to the study of European law and its constitutional and political context from an interdisciplinary, transnational, and multilingual perspective.

Maastricht Centre for Taxation (MCT)

An interdisciplinary educational and research centre dedicated to international and European taxation including tax law, (tax) accounting and public finance

Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO)

High-quality research into environmental law, tort law, competition law, and the economic analysis of law. Facilitates the Ius Commune Research School.

Montesquieu Institute

Focuses on parliamentary systems of government in Europe and in the EU and aspects of separation-of-power, democracy, law and human rights.

Maastricht Graduate School of Law (MGSL)

A stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal research, dedicated to training excellent PhD researchers and honours students.

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Studio Europa Maastricht

Centre of expertise for academic research, European heritage and public debate

Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH)

Bringing together economic, legal, (art) historical, philosophical, sociological and practical expertise to the context of arts and heritage.

As THE European University of the Netherlands, Maastricht University (UM) has not only created a dynamic array of Europe-themed bachelor’s and master’s programmes and established many research institutes whose primary focus is Europe and the EU.

We are also the only Dutch university to have set up a campus in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, as an inter-faculty hub for teaching, research and outreach.

Advocating a united, democratic and prosperous Europe

Since 2010, Campus Brussels offers education and training for professionals through executive courses, a part-time PhD programme in European Studies for UM alumni and Brussels-based practitioners, and acts as an events venue for discussing Europe and the future of the EU for students, staff, alumni and others.

Located next to the European Quarter, Campus Brussels performs an embassy role by promoting the university abroad, connecting UM to EU politicians and policy-makers, and by monitoring EU education, research and funding policy developments.

Questions about the future of Europe are abundant: How will Europe deal with geopolitical issues like Atlanticism or Eurasian integration? How will Europe ensure energy security in the coming decades?

Stimulating active and critical discussion, sharing the stories of Europe

Will the EU continue to expand? Will EU members continue to integrate politically and economically? What will the future EU economy look like? Will European citizens have a greater democratic voice in the future policies of the European Union?

Maastricht University (UM) is committed to facilitating public debate and academic discussion on these and other European themes and finding joint solutions for European challenges. We offer citizens the chance to take part in this European dialogue by means of many interactive lectures, critical debates, inspiring workshops and exhibitions.

Fostering understanding about Europe

This way, we help reduce the democratic deficit and enhance people’s understanding of how ‘Europe’ shapes their daily lives.

To this end, UM’s faculties and expertise centres have joined forces with many external stakeholders, ranging from citizens, policy-makers and journalists to politicians and governmental agencies, businesses and youth organisations.

Studio Europa Maastricht

European Citizen Panel on EU in the world: Migration

Studio Europa Maastricht

Studio Europa co-organised the European Citizen Panel “EU in the world / Migration” to discuss the role of the EU in the world, including objectives and strategies for the EU’s security, defense, trade policy, humanitarian aid & development cooperation, foreign policy, and neighbourhood policy & EU enlargement. This was organised in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Europe-themed academic programmes

True to its reputation as THE European University of the Netherlands, UM offers a wide array of degree programmes specifically devoted to European affairs, both at the bachelor's and master's level.

From law and governance to business and taxation to public health and technological innovation, we are preparing the next generation of leaders, scholars, researchers and innovators for the future of Europe. These programmes include:

European bachelor's

LLB European Law School

European & international law, the legal systems of different EU member states, and important social themes such as sustainability, migration, security and technology.

BSc European Public Health

Sustainable European public health and healthcare systems and their relation to national and international politics, administration, management, policy, strategy, communication and media.

Bachelor's programme European Public Health - Maastricht University

BA European Studies

Focuses on the cultural, historical, political and social aspects of Europe and the ongoing European integration process and its place in the global context.

European master's

LLM European Law School

Traditional legal subjects like family law, competition law and criminal law from a European perspective and an in-depth overview of European law and how it interacts with national law.

MA European Public Affairs

A multi-disciplinary research- and practice-oriented programme focused on public affairs in the EU that prepares you for a career in European or EU-related public affairs and public service.

MA European Studies

Focused on the internal and external dimensions of policy, governance and administration, combining political science, history, international relations, economics and culture studies.

MSc Research Master in European Studies

Tailor-made training for a research-oriented career in academia, think tanks, politics or journalism. Choose your own study and research specialisation.

MA European Studies on Science, Society & Technology

Understanding and managing the complex issues of modern innovation from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, such as political studies, cultural studies, innovation studies and social studies.

MSc Governance & Leadership in European Public Health

European public health policies including analytical tools, innovative research methods and change management instruments for policymaking and development at all levels.

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Agathe Paumelle at the age of 20, on Friday 24 February 2023.

Agathe started the Bachelor Global Studies in September 2021 and was a dedicated and brilliant student. Despite her illness, she was strongly motivated to embrace life to the fullest. Agathe affected the lives of many with her altruism, happiness and love. We will remember her as a strong fighter and a beautiful, cheerful, and optimistic person.

Her academic drive was admirable. Even when she was physically unwell, she excelled in all courses she took and even succeeded in learning a new language, Mandarin. She loved challenging herself academically. We would have wished for her to be able to complete the programme and share her ambitions with the world. She would inevitably have been an outstanding bridge builder in the global world.

Agathe loved Maastricht and was able to create a new home here with her boyfriend and her friends. Her laughter and positive energy will be missed, but will continue to illuminate our hearts when we remember her.

For those of you who would like to honour Agathe, you can visit the Student Care meeting room of Global Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Grote Gracht 76S – room 0.013). We warmly invite you to write some memories or a message to her loved ones in the condolences book that will be present.

On Friday 3 March 2023 at 13.30, an open ceremony will be organised at the Cimetière de l'Est de Rennes, in Bretagne, France. At this time, we will also fly the UM flag at half-mast in Agathe’s remembrance at the Bouillionstraat 1-3.

At the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, a small remembrance ceremony will be held on Wednesday 8 March from 11.30-12.30 in the Common Room of Global Studies (Grote Gracht 76S – room 1.024).

Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Agathe’s family and friends.

On behalf of the students and staff of Global Studies

It may be that you need spiritual assistance and guidance as a result of Agathe’s passing. The GS Student Care Officer at the Faculty of Arts and Socials Sciences as well as the UM Psychologists at Maastricht University will be there for you if you need them. Feel free to contact either Saskia van Bergen (s.vanbergen@maastrichtuniversity.nl or 043-3884554), or the secretariat of student guidance at the SSC via 043-3885212. You can also contact the Student Chaplaincy at The InnBetween info@innbetween.nl (043-3885310 or 06-17443610).

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Internationalisation of education, and specifically the influx of international students, is a hot topic in Dutch politics. As the most international university in the country, Maastricht University closely monitors developments. The guiding principle for UM remains: an international university in a highly international and ageing border region is both natural and essential. Appropriate regulations and international orientation are essential to prevent the devastation of education in Limburg, you can read more about this in this press release.

FAQ

In this FAQ, we attempt to answer a number of frequently asked questions:

Are international students still welcome at UM?
What about the other Dutch universities?
Does UM face similar accommodation problems?
Why are international students so important to UM?
Will an exception be made for UM in the new measures?
Will there be a limit on the number of international students?
Will studying for international students become more expensive?
Will Dutch now become the main language of instruction?
Will UM offer courses in Dutch? What are the costs?
What is going to happen next?

UM is grateful for the richness and diversity provided by its international staff, students and study programmes—and the ensuing endless supply of inspiring stories.

Read these stories here.

Ethics Review Committees

Nagoya protocol

Join Students for Equality

Institutes for Europe-themed research

Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM)

Maastricht European Centre on Privacy & Cybersecurity (ECPC)

Institute for Transnational & Euregional cross border cooperation & Mobility (ITEM)

Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration & Development (MACIMIDE)

Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL)

Maastricht Centre for Taxation (MCT)

Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO)

Montesquieu Institute

Maastricht Graduate School of Law (MGSL)

Studio Europa Maastricht

Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH)

Fostering understanding about Europe

Fireplace Talks, the RELAY Network & more

Jean Monnet Lecture Series

The ITEM cross-border portal

YUFE Academy lectures and workshops

Maastricht Debates

Europe-themed academic programmes

European bachelor's

LLB European Law School

BSc European Public Health

BA European Studies

European master's

LLM European Law School

MA European Public Affairs

MA European Studies

MSc Research Master in European Studies

MA European Studies on Science, Society & Technology

MSc Governance & Leadership in European Public Health

UM SPORTS refunds

FAQ

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