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In the last few months all colleagues were able to participate in a poll to name our tutorial rooms. This leads to a choice doing justice to diversity in nationality, field, gender and type of name.

Horizon Europe: game change?

Van Horizon 2020 naar Horizon Europe

What really makes the MSP special is the small-scale teaching and the close contact with students. Us as teachers get to know you as students very well and vice versa. Because of this, I can teach you a lot more than what you need to know to just pass my exams.

I have worked with many different kinds of students- economics students, law students, American exchange students- and I think the MSP students are quite special.

When you look at the amount of choice that students have at the Maastricht Science Programme to build their own curriculum, coupled with the advising and the academic resources, the potential is limitless. It is a bit daring to give that high degree of freedom to students.

The European Union prides itself for being based on the rule of law.

It is always exciting to await a final decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The judgement in C-619/18, Art.

The development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), nanotechnology and neonicotinoid insecticides presents opportunities for humans and the environment, but it can also carry risks to human, animal or plant health.

This week I am having the pleasure of attending the 2019 BIO International Convention hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The biggest global event of its kind, this international convention brings together stakeholders from across the biotechnologies.

It is, I think, fair to say that Brexit is not going well. Some even think that it is a ‘complete and unmitigated mess’.