“You look young for your age!”, “Young people are innovative” or “Population ageing is a problem”. These are all statements that express wrongful assumptions about age.
Caroline Bouvier likes to look beyond the image. Or more accurately, beneath it. A postdoctoral researcher from Paris, she is less interested in what a painting depicts—the iconography—than in the chemical processes behind the composition.
Two Maastricht University (UM) scientists will receive a €850,000 Vidi grant for their research projects. This was announced by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) on Thursday.
In an open letter to the government today, 24 businesses in the Netherlands and 15 national start-ups and scale-ups issued a warning about the severity of the proposed cuts to teaching, research and innovation and the consequences for our education.
On Friday afternoon, 18 October, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture, and Science) paid a working visit to Maastricht. There, he was briefed by Limburg's educational institutions on current educational topics.
Society is stuck on a one-way superhighway of value destruction, if you ask Nancy Bocken. Here, the professor of Sustainable Business & Circular Economy proposes how we might exit the highway of linear consumption.