King Willem-Alexander and Minister Bruins for healthcare and Sport made an unexpected visit to the initiatives of the Blue Care pioneer site in Maastricht on 4 September.
Emilie Sitzia has received a Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship to work on a project titled ‘Common Sense : (Re)inventing a Social and Sensory Museology of the Illustrated Book’ .
On 21 June rector Pr Prosper Gandaho, vice rector Pr Bertrand Sogbossi and the project coordinator Pr Armand Paraiso of the University of Parakou visited Maastricht University.
At the start of COVID-19, the Dutch Ministry of Health asked Professor Jan Hamers’ Living Labs in Ageing and Long-Term Care to help design nursing home visiting guidelines after full lockdowns hit. “Thanks in part to our research, they reopened their doors to visitors earlier,” Hamers says.
Dutch nursing homes say they want to avoid closing their doors to visitors during the second coronavirus wave if there is an infection among residents. At the same time, they say they can’t guarantee there will be no more visiting bans.
On Friday afternoon, 18 October, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture, and Science) paid a working visit to Maastricht. There, he was briefed by Limburg's educational institutions on current educational topics from the Education Manifesto. The minister also engaged in conversations with teachers...