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“Why not move Carnival to summer?”
Christian Hoebe, professor of Social Medicine and head of Infectious Disease Control at the GGD Zuid-Limburg, discusses his passion for social medicine, his childhood in Alkmaar and, of course, the fight against COVID-19.
Philanthropic foundation collaborates with SBE students to develop a matchmaking platform for non-profit sector
What if we could use the same mechanisms behind popular dating apps such as Tinder, Harmony and Okcupid to help connect philanthropic foundations with projects and organisations in need of funding? This is the idea behind Fundii, a platform that is being developed by SBE Professor Paul Smeets...
UM researchers lead European project to tackle challenges linked to technical innovations
Led by Mark Levels with the help of Raymond Montizaan and Didier Fouarge, TECHNEQUALITY’s findings are expected to inform policy-makers working to support their populations through technological transformation. We sat down with Mark to find out more about this fascinating project and how it came to...
Why I didn’t sign the Fundingmatters.tech petition
In 2018, academic storms start on Twitter. One of them has been the public concern surrounding the sponsors accepted by this year’s Amsterdam Privacy Conference. The Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University was hosting one of the panels at the conference until they withdrew. The reason?
Conference on ‘Global Standards and EU Law – Challenges for European Administrative Law’ (webinar)
In this conference, the speakers will critically reflect on the increasing incorporation of global standards in the EU legal system and the legal questions raised by this phenomenon.
17 Jun18 JunChallenge trilogy
What role can science & innovation play in solving today’s global challenges? Celebrating 80 years of science & innovation, the tenant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus have joined forces to organize a Challenge Trilogy
27 Oct- fdrreport_peer_review_final031109.pdf (86.52 KB, PDF)… Human Rights: a Multidisciplinary Endeavour’. It proved an excellent opportunity to have informal discussions with both students and faculty members of the School from across the country. The Panel notes with approval that by the time of its visit, much self-reflection had already been undertaken within the School, especially since the appointment of its new Director in 2007, Professor Tom Zwart. In the light of the documentation provided and the opportunities which it had to meet with the … the identity and the running of the School. The separation allows the School to be more responsive to all its members. In addition a management-team for the School was created. It consists of the Director (Tom Zwart), an Education Officer (Antoine Buyse), a Research Officer (Gentian Zyberi) and Registrar (Marcella Kiel). The Education Officer’s role consists mainly of maintaining contacts with junior researchers, especially in relation to the School’s graduate program, and in co-editing the … multi disciplinary and interdisciplinary research was still to happen. The Panel believes that progress has been achieved by the School in this area since the last Peer Review. Efforts have been deployed to realize interdisciplinary research on the shop floor. Whereas non-lawyers within the School were once gathered in a separate research cluster they are now rightly integrated within several Working Groups. The Panel notices that several interesting interdisciplinary publications have seen the …