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Isabeau finished the infamous Marathon des Sables this year, a gruelling 270 km through the Moroccan Sahara. According to Isabeau, physical pain and discomfort set in early in the race. It’s mental strength that will bring you to the finish.

The online accessible lecture series “Strengthening EU Environmental Law: Legal Perspectives on Greening Europe” provides a set of important insights from European environmental law scholars on how EU environmental law helps to achieve the aim of a high level of environmental protection in the European...

We invite all interested staff members for an in-depth discussion. The seminar is set up as a guest lecture in which professor Schwarcz will present his paper after which there will be enough room for discussion.

The GROWINPRO project brought together eleven international academic institutions and three statistical offices to provide a detailed analysis of the causes of the anaemic growth performance observed in Europe during the last decades and after the Great Recession. On the grounds of such analysis...

The European Commission has awarded €23 million to set up a new platform for drug repurposing: the use of existing drugs in diseases other than those for which they were originally developed. In the next seven years UM will develop the platform REPO4EU (precision drug REPurpOsing for Europe) together...

The 50th anniversary of the Medicine (Geneeskunde) programme prompted Annemie Schols, dean of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences to give the photo portraits of former deans and herself in the Co Greep room (UNS 60) a new setting and more modern look.

Cross-border work involves a lot to be taken into account. A much-discussed aspect is the recognition of qualifications. During these procedures, competent authorities check whether a person's diplomas and professional experience meet certain standards. Such processes are anything but obvious. In order...

Whereas conventional analyses of democratisation tend to focus on formal institutions, elections and political reforms, this project shifts attention to how democracy is lived and practised in everyday settings such as families, neighbourhoods, workplaces and communities.

In this episode, host Chang Sun invited Professor Elisabeth Brüggen to join the DSMINDSETS Podcast. Elisabeth (Lisa) is a Professor for Financial Services at the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management under School of Business and Economics (SBE) at Maastricht University. She is also the...

On 1 February, MERLN’s Scientific Director Pamela Habibović succeeds Rianne Letschert as rector of Maastricht University (UM). As she prepares to move to her new office, the professor of Inorganic Biomaterials talks about her engineering mind-set, how interdisciplinarity is crucial but far from easy...