Adventuring into STS: A symposium with Harry Collins, Rosalind Williams, Trevor Pinch, John Law, Knut Sørensen and Shiv Visvanathan.

The symposium is closed with a valedictory lecture by Wiebe Bijker

On 8 and 9 June 2017, Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) will organise a conference on ‘Vandalism & Art’ in collaboration with the Bonnefantenmuseum, CeROArt and MACCH. 

'You should be a doctor, a banker, an accountant. Sound familiar? We've all been in those situations or may be you've always known what you've wanted to do. But have you ever asked yourself if "your dream" is really yours?

Let's move for a Better World is a global campaign created by Technogym in order to promote a more active lifestyle an help people enjoy a better life. Participants can improve the quantity of movement performed every day and donate it to fight the spread of obesity and sedentarity in the community.

We are pleased to announce the second PhD meeting on pensions, an initiative of Maastricht University (ITEM/ Maastricht Centre for Taxation) and Tilburg University (Competence Centre for Pension Research). On the afternoon of Thursday 22 June 2017 we would like to welcome all PhD students with a research focus on pensions to this meeting at Tilburg University.

Factsheet available. On June 16th and 17th, 2017 the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University organised a workshop devoted to the topic of Human capital and regional development. This mini-conference was organised in collaboration with Neimed, Dutch Centre of Expertise on Demographic Change, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM.

UNU-MERIT and the Global Challenges Foundation are hosting an ‘action debate’: a panel discussion to thrash out practical routes to reform. Featuring high-level speakers from the worlds of academia and diplomacy, the debate will map out the future of global governance

On Tuesday March 7, Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders will be visting UM for a 1 hour Q&A session.

Graduate students from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs (NASPAA) will compete at UNU-MERIT and seven other sites worldwide in this day-long simulation.