On January 1, 2020, Dr. Jan van den Berg was appointed professor by special appointment of Plant Envirogenetics at the UM Faculty of Science & Engineering. It concerns an appointment of 0.2 FTE for five years.
HAS green academy and Maastricht University signed a letter of intent on 12 June to strengthen their collaboration. An important step toward a long-term strategic partnership in Venlo. This collaboration will focus specifically on the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo and aims to combine strengths...
Based at the Brightlands Chemelot campus, InSciTe (Institute for Science and Technology) supports scientists and starting businesses to translate medical innovations to practical applications, among other things. Three years after it was founded, the biomedical department of the institute has...
On 11 October, Maastricht University (UM) signed an agreement with the College of Medicine (CMED) at Qatar University (QU) to establish cooperation in education, medical research and staff/student exchange.
Simbiat Oladoja, a food scientist and entrepreneur from Nigeria and Gabriel Gonçalves, a Brazilian chemical engineer, are just two of the non-EU top talents selected for a UM Brightlands Talent Scholarship. They will research their master’s thesis on one of the Brightlands campuses in Limburg.
A sonic artwork, consisting of a collection of spoken messages, is the impressive result of a special project in the Euregion. This project, called Terra Mosana, studies the history of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.
In order to pursue a master’s degree that combines health and communication, Michelle Vellinga moved from Amsterdam to our UM-community in Maastricht. In her own words, choosing Maastricht University was the best decision she made during her student life.
The law needs to be changed to prevent people from being locked in a religious marriage, writes Maastricht University (UM) lawyer Pauline Kruiniger in the final report on the MARICAP study, Niet langer geketend aan het huwelijk (‘Breaking the chains of marriage’). Following one of the report’s...
In his Dies Lecture, Ioan Fazey lays out how universities need to radically transform to help address the unprecedented crisis the world is facing. Here, he talks to us about fear of the inevitable, impediments to change and what roles universities can play.
