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… in medicine, biotechnology, physics or artificial intelligence to psychology and liberal arts and sciences. Some programmes in the cluster admit talented students with an HBO (vocational) bachelor diploma. The programmes sometimes struggle with finding the right balance between bridging prior knowledge gaps and providing the students with new learning material. For example, some students find the statistics course too easy, whereas others are truly struggling to keep up. The four programmes in this cluster each handle this in their own way. The VU provides a set of courses in the first semester for all students, to make sure everyone obtains the same knowledge level. The … extracurricular classes to obtain the desired level on the programme’s main topics. At the RU, students can use their elective space to follow courses that remedy any deficiency. The UM offers introductory courses in biology and psychology to create a common language between the various students. The programmes and the panel members agreed that repetition is inevitable, and that it needs not to be a bad thing to have a certain degree of duplication in the programme. However, all students should be …

… In this course, we build a mathematical framework that is based on logic and reason. The main objective of the course is to make students familiar with the language of mathematics. Students will learn how to make sound arguments and to detect where and why certain arguments go wrong. For this purpose, we will discuss the basic principles of logic and, closely related, the basic types of mathematical proofs. In doing so, we will encounter numbers \such as integers, natural numbers and real numbers and we shall examine what makes these numbers special. After that, we will use basic logic to discuss, among other things, the following mathematical concepts: infinity, sets, relations, functions, permutations and combinations. Our fundamental tool in all of this is plain common sense. You really do not need your toolbox of mathematical formulas learned in previous studies and neither do you need a calculator. Pen and paper are the basic instruments needed. … of the Student Handbook and motivation of the student. This study abroad will take place in Semester 1 of year 2 and has a study load of 30 ECTS. The selected course programme has to be approved by the Board of Examiners. For more information you can contact our Study Adviser Wendy Brandt. Prerequisites You have to obtained at least 40 ECTS of year 1 courses. KEN3600 Semester 1 1 Sep 2021 28 Jan 2022 Semester 2 1 Feb 2022 1 Jul 2022 Print course description ECTS credits: 30.0 Coordinators: W. …

… on all aspects of doing a PhD at MHeNs, ranging from information on the training programme, guidelines for supervision and training, and the PhD defence. It contains information for current and prospective PhD candidates as well as for supervisors. Contact persons of the MHeNs Office: Tom van den Crommenacker: managing director MHeNs and head of coordinating office MHeNs. Financial aspects of the PhD position and trajectory have to be discussed with the managing director. … Ankie Hochstenbach: financial and administrative officer; coordinates administrative procedures (eligibility check and registration) and personal data in PhD TRACK. She liaises with Human Resources Department regarding the completion of employee records (TSP/PRPs). Email: a.hochstenbach@maastrichtuniversity.nl Nicole Senden: policy officer and EURON programme coordinator; is chairing the Educational committee of MHeNs and is the contact person for joint doctorates. … programme at FHML, the Koostra Talent Fellowship. Alumni Network The UM Alumni Office would like to welcome you to its Alumni Community, a network of over 80,000 graduates. The UM Alumni Office regularly organises (online) events around the world, where you meet fellow alumni. They may be able to help you with a job, new contacts, and so on. Follow the UM Alumni Office on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and via its website for news, alumni stories, vacancies, information about Maastricht, …

… 18 The search for a publisher / Vincent Lagendijk 20 Who wants to use my (m)ap(p)? / Brigitte Le Normand 24 Outreach 28 2023 was an exciting year for those of us at the Research Institute at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). We welcomed an international committee of our research peers in October. Their task was to review our research for the period 2017-2022, and to provide advice on how we can move forward. It was a pleasure to engage with them, and they provided excellent … on European memory politics. She explores the disparities between Western and Eastern memory narratives, and also investigates the EU’s dealing with the memory of Colonialism. Aline also writes about the Dachau concentration camp memorial site (where she worked as a researcher before joining Maastricht University) and Munich’s delayed reckoning with its Nazi past. Stepping (not too much) out of the comfort zone Every academic knows that grant applications are brutal. “Competition is fierce … but all in vain. I was disappointed, but I didn’t want to give up, so I sent the manuscript to several other publishers. One rejected the proposal, another never got back to me, and the third didn’t respond until months later, when I was already in contact with a fourth publisher. Since there is an unwritten rule that you only consult one publisher at a time, I couldn’t get back to the third and the discussion with the fourth unfortunately fell through.” Light at the end of the tunnel …

… Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ierp20 Download by: [Maastricht University Library] Date: 02 January 2017, At: 02:19 Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research ISSN: 1473-7167 (Print) 1744-8379 (Online) Journal homepage: … bias results. The term ‘full EE’ refers to the comparative analysis of alternative courses of action in terms of both costs (resource use) and consequences (outcomes and effects) [5]. Basically, there are two approaches to performing an EE study CONTACT BFM Wijnen b.wijnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl Duboisdomein 30, 6229 GT Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands Supplemental data for this article can be accessed here. EXPERT REVIEW OF PHARMACOECONOMICS & OUTCOMES RESEARCH, … checklist to assess modeling studies [27]. However, as the Philips checklist contains a relatively large amount of criteria, using this checklist may not be feasible if one is interested specifically in a large number of model- based EEs. In cases where one is specifically interested in model- based EE and if the expected number of included studies is low (e.g. <10 studies; pragmatic decision), the Philips checklist [21] EXPERT REVIEW OF PHARMACOECONOMICS & OUTCOMES RESEARCH 725 Table 1. Items …