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The government and several opposition parties have agreed on a budget for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Higher education will be hit hard, although there are glimmers of hope. The total cuts to education and research have been reduced from €2 billion to just over €1.2 billion.

Two UM academics have been nominated for this year’s Science Talent competition from New Scientist. A total of 15 talented academics from the Netherlands and Flanders are currently in the running for the title. With as many online votes as possible, Aurélie Carlier and Kay Deckers have a chance to be...

All master's graduates who received the official graduation date: 31.05.2019 30.06.2019 31.07.2019 31.08.2019 are invited to attend the ceremonial award of their degree on Friday, 29 November or Saturday 7 December in the Sint Janskerk. After these (in total six) ceremonies, an informal gathering will...

All master's graduates who received the official graduation date: 31.05.2019 30.06.2019 31.07.2019 31.08.2019 are invited to attend the ceremonial award of their degree on Friday, 29 November or Saturday 7 December in the Sint Janskerk. After these (in total six) ceremonies, an informal gathering will...

Professor of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Nava Tintarev will be a co-investigator and chair for the integration of humanities and social sciences in ROBUST, a consortium applying for an NWO grant with a total budget of 95M (25M from NWO) to carry out long term research into reliable artificial...

Christian Ernsten, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is part of the consortium awarded a prestigious NWA-ORC grant for the project “Traumascapes: Valuing, Negotiating and Sharing Sites of Trauma, Pain and Loss.” The project has received a total of €6.8 million in funding.

Maastricht University has granted five students from Gaza scholarships to study at the university. As is customary with scholarships awarded by Maastricht University to students from outside the EU – currently numbering more than 70 in total – the scholarship is awarded for the duration of the...

New opportunities are opening up at YUFE this academic year for staff members wishing to further their education. A total of 11 courses will be available to research and teaching staff, as well as university administration and management teams.

In 2023, private donations in the US surpassed $500 billion for the first time, exceeding the total amount of official development assistance disbursed by all members of the OECD combined by more than double (Giving USA Foundation, 2021) . These figures, alongside recent advances in development...

The number of taxi drivers using the Uber app in Amsterdam has grown from 1,298 in January 2016 to 5,217 in December 2019, and the number of trips made has also risen sharply. In December 2019, 8.8 times more trips were made than in January 2016, and the total number of kilometers traveled by drivers...