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Maastricht University (UM) has published the Sustainability Report 2025. This report outlines the sustainable steps being taken across education, research and operational activities.

Thursday 15 April, more than 1100 participants start the UM steps challenge. In this challenge our faculties and service centres compete for the title of 'most active faculty/service centre of UM', and for a sum of money for vitality promotion.

Following the graduation ceremonies on July 11 and 12, we asked four brand new graduates about their next steps in life. We also asked them to reflect – perhaps for the last time – on their time at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences.

One excellent way of stimulating CCCS learning through formative or summative assessments, is by using Team-Based Quizzes. If you want to learn more about this technique, then please sign up for this workshop, where you will experience the 3 steps of this Team-Based Learning format yourselves.

After several rocky years, Maastricht University alum Lea Vink has found her feet in Vienna. Professionally, she is taking new steps at the crossroads of aviation and organisational psychology. And on a personal level, luck has smiled on her since her transition from man to woman.

Researchers from Maastricht University have enabled an epilepsy patient to hear through a laptop the word she was thinking of at that exact moment. This is an important step in research aiming to facilitate communication by people with severe speech impairments.

Gerard van Rooij, professor of Plasma Chemistry, was the first PhD candidate of Ron Heeren, university professor and director of the M4I institute. Together they reflect on a pioneering period in which they took the first tentative steps in the development of imaging mass spectrometry.

In our interconnected global economy, uncertainty is like a tempest that sweeps across financial markets, businesses, and households. It’s that unsettling feeling when you’re unsure about what lies ahead—the fog that obscures the path forward. But what exactly is economic uncertainty, and why does it...

On 23 April, our speaker is Daniel Hegedüs, Deputy Director, Institute for European Politics (IEP) , with a lecture about "I nternational Determinants of Autocratization and Democratization in the EU in an Age of Geopolitical Upheaval".

How can tutors make small-group learning at UM genuinely inclusive? In this article, Boukje Compen highlights small, practical steps tutors can take to help students connect, create a safe learning environment, and learn from each other’s perspectives.