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… Text: Sanne Tummers Photography: Harry Heuts University in the neighbourhood: collaborating to improve local health As a researcher, how can you best find out what a neighbourhood needs to improve the health and quality of life of its residents? Before you can enter into dialogue and roll up your sleeves together, public spaces are needed where researchers and residents can get together. In 2016, philosophy professor Klasien Horstman and her colleagues Mare Knibben and Sanne Raap launched … the idea behind UniversiteitmetdeBuurt ? “The initiative emerged from a citizens’ summit that we organised in 2014 and 2015 with students and the municipality of Maastricht. The first summit was held citywide, the second for residents in the low-income neighbourhoods of northwest Maastricht. The new laws of the ‘participatory society’ were set to demand a lot from citizens in terms of mutual support, and we wanted to ask residents how they experienced their quality of life. A key focus during … to resilience and recovery.” Who can use UniversiteitmetdeBuurt? “Everyone. We don’t work with target groups and don’t want to pigeonhole anyone. We find it important that people who may at first glance differ in age, background or culture come into contact with one another. For example, students from a local vocational high school drop by every week to chat with elderly people. The etiquette is to be open-minded and avoid forming cliques. This lowers the barrier to entry, especially for people …

… Master Systems Biology Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology 30th of November 2019 Started 31 august 2015  2 year, full-time master  120 ECTS  At the Health Campus (Randwyck, UM)  Fully English programme Master Systems Biology Systems Biology:  Is a rapidly evolving multidisciplinary field of science  Combines biology, computational models, and mathematics  Aims to understand the behavior of biological systems ...  ... and predict new behaviors Towards the virtual physiological human Why Systems Biology? Replace animal testingSocietal Diagnostics … science, and mathematics  who do not want to be limited to a fixed, highly specialized programme  who want to learn how to think, work and communicate across disciplines Need for students: Programme Master SB Presenter Presentation Notes about 20 contact hours per week (so 20 hours self-study expected) Curriculum set-up: Multidisciplinary programme: broad spectrum of topics spanning from mathematics to biology Mathematics Data Science Biological Systems Experimental Data Presenter Presentation …

… Appeal form Complaints Service Point Details student: Name  Surname: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Address: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Postal code  City: … visible and readable! In principle, an appeal must be filed within six weeks from the day after the decision was published.1 The term starts the day after the decision is published or sent. It is important that you file your appeal on time with the Complaints Service Point. If you are not on time, the Advisory Committee for Student Affairs (AC) may declare your appeal inadmissible. In other words: this means you might lose your right to file an appeal! Publication date or date of dispatch of the decision you do not agree with: ……………………………. (For example the date of …

… Objection form Complaints Service Point Details student: Name  Surname: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Address: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Postal code  City: … and readable! In principle, an objection must be filed within six weeks from the day after the decision was published.1 The term starts the day after the decision is published or sent. It is important that you file your objection on time with the Complaints Service Point. If you are not on time, the Advisory Committee for Student Affairs (AC) may declare your objection inadmissible. In other words: this means you might lose your right to file an objection! Publication date or date of dispatch of the decision you do not agree with: ……………………………. (For example the date …

… Abstract This article analyses the development of environmental considerations in the field of public procurement within the European Union. Specific attention is devoted to the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission. This paper examines the judgments of the CJEU in Beentjes v. Netherlands, Nord- Pas-de-Calais Region, Regina v. HM Treasury and Concordia Bus cases. The article outlines the development of the concept of Green Public Procurement as defined … has developed within the European Union (EU) as an economic tool subject to Community rules which are designed to facilitate the functioning of the internal market and to guarantee undistorted regime of competition, and the free movement of goods and services within the Community. Public procurement concerns itself with the procurement of supplies, works, services and utilities by public authorities. Since public procurement spending amounts to around 19,9% of European Union Gross Domestic Product, … to significantly reduce environmental impact within the Union, stimulate green innovation and help the EU reach its sustainability goals. 1 Data of 2009 reported in EU Annual Growth Survey 2012, COM(2011) 815, Brussels, 23.11.2001 as used by Centre for European Policy Studies, The Uptake of Green Procurement in the EU27, College of Europe, Brussels, 2012. 2 Over the last decades environmental considerations have started to play a role in procurement mainly through case law. The new legal regime, …