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Join us and think along on the next steps of the Sustainable UM 2030 programme!

Are you completing the last steps before graduating? Finishing your bachelor’s or master’s thesis and thinking about how to spend your summer usefully? Then we have something interesting for you!

The European Union is a major global trading power. With the introduction of the Euro and EU enlargement, key steps towards integration were taken to increase European prosperity and competitiveness. 

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.