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FASoS Research Institute

Moving boundaries, bridging disciplines

The research institute of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University studies societies and cultures as they unfolded during the modern and contemporary era in a radically interdisciplinary manner. We analyse the interrelationships of Europeanisation, globalisation, scientific and technological development, political change and cultural innovation. We are interested in how today’s societies cope with and reflect these challenges in various ways. These could be artistic practices and practices of remembrance as well as specific forms of governance and political integration as well as strategies for managing knowledge, technologies and risks. While our research starts from today’s problems, we have a strong interest in how the modern world came to be.

Research

To nurture and maintain this kind of innovative, interdisciplinary research, the research institute of FASoS has created a matrix organisational structure. Its backbone are four distinct research programmes, each of which is composed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. While the research programmes form the core of the research activities at FASoS, the faculty also has five centres as specific research hubs and to facilitate interaction with external academic partners and societal stakeholders. Together, the research programmes and the research centres provide a framework that facilitates flexibility, networking, and mobility beyond disciplinary boundaries.

News

Karin van Leeuwen awarded NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant

€50,000 for the project ‘Judicialization and democracy: towards an historicized approach’.

Karin van Leeuwen

Limburgish on the digital map

A digital infrastructure (digital resources and technical systems to store, manage and make the language accessible) will be set up in one year to collect, manage and complete a Limburgish Corpus. 

Andreas Simons door Laura Knipsael

Johan Adriaensen awarded NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant

€50,000 for the project ‘Implementing trade agreements (IMPLETRAD)’.

Johan Adriaensen headshot

Prestigious European grant for two UM researchers

Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to set up a scientific research team in the coming years for studies on bioprinted models of a human kidney and on female guest workers from...

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Costas Papadopoulos awarded eScience Centre grant

€250,000 for the project ‘Dynamic3D: Real-Time Simulation and Analysis for 3D Scholarly Editions’.

Costas Papadopoulos