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The Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers has nominated engineer Kim Ragaert and student team SublimeStone for the award of best Dutch engineer and best Dutch student team in 2024. Both are among the last three finalists in their respective categories. Do you want the best engineers to win? Now is the...

Most work in legal logic is generalist or takes domestic law as the standard case. International law as a field has some distinctive features, however. Lacking a formal and centralised structure, international law is the result of the direct action of its addressees: States, international organisations...

From polarisation, misinformation and populists at home to geopolitical pressure from abroad: European democracy is feeling the strain. In an effort to uphold and expand one of its core values, the EU is financing a research project on the promotion of democracy. Professor Giselle Bosse, an Eastern...

If it were up to Melle Garschagen, every day would be ‘Europe Day’. “The role of a journalist is to follow the EU critically and comprehensively,” says the UM alum and deputy editor of NRC. He recently returned to the Netherlands after almost five years as a correspondent in England, mainly covering...

Help make Europe better – go on then. If you don’t know where to start, you could do worse than come to Studio Europa. This workshop at the heart of Europe – and the heart of Maastricht – allows researchers, journalists, policy makers and citizens to come together to discuss, debate and shape Europe’s...

Doctrine, documents, data – this is the trinity which Anna Beckers will analyse in her ERC-funded project CHAINLAW. The project will lay the foundation for developing a regulatory framework in response to the socio-economic institutions that make up global value chains. Her holistic approach will...

Using a wound swab (similar to a cotton swab) to determine whether a chronic wound has become infected is a waste of both time and money. This was the conclusion drawn by geriatric specialist Armand Rondas in his dissertation for which he hopes to obtain his doctoral degree on 22 January at Maastricht...

In the new episode of Café Europa, writer and cultural historian David van Reybrouck is a guest. Journalist Annette van Soest and professor of European history Mathieu Segers talk to him about citizen participation and the Conference on the Future of Europe. Café Europa is a Dutch podcast by Haagsch...

The Norwegian Ministry of Finance regularly asks experts for a thorough analysis of the Norwegian Oil Fund. Last year, Rob Bauer, professor of Finance at the School of Business and Economics and holder of the Elverding Chair on Sustainable Business, culture, and corporate regulation, was among three...