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Bridge between technology, security, legislation and ethics
Companies and governments are in dire need of specialists and managers with knowledge of three separate fields: data management, cybersecurity and privacy legislation. It’s a rare combination, prompting the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) at Maastricht University to establish a...
“I want to make crossing borders easier”
Hildegard Schneider is set to say goodbye. As professor of European Migration Law and former dean of the Faculty of Law, her career coincided with the foundation and pioneering years of the law faculty. She herself made an important contribution to the profiling of Maastricht University as a...
New approach is needed in the fight against chlamydia
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) worldwide and in the Netherlands. The clinical and public health relevance of widespread case finding by testing for asymptomatic Chlamydia infections is under debate.
Curcuma: from cultivation to biobased colorant
Did you know that we produce about 87 million tons of packaging waste per year in Europe? The good news is that a part of this is biobased packaging that is recyclable or biodegradable.
Realising ‘elephantine’ ambitions
To promote the wellbeing and recovery of sick children, UM professor Pim Martens and team aim to create a special animal room in the paediatric ward of the Maastricht UMC+. “Using virtual reality we’ll soon be able to let all children experience the animal world.”
Taking Europe’s temperature
As part of our series Maastricht, reflecting on Europe, associate professor of Health Economics at Maastricht University Milena Pavlova talks about healthy Europeans and an ailing EU.