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On Friday 22 April 2022 M-EPLI fellow Bram Akkermans will deliver his inaugural lecture as Maastricht’s Professor of Property Law titled ’Sustainable Property Law. Reckoning, Resilience, and Reform’.

Maastricht Young Academy (MYA) serves and represents the interests of academics in the early to mid-stage of their career. Outgoing chair Katlijn Haesebrouck and new chair Vanessa LaPointe on the struggles this group faces, systemic problems, as well as the importance of Recognition & Rewards.

As of 1 March, Barbara Strating will be the new curator at Maastricht University. She succeeds Mieke Derickx who has retired. Barbara will further develop the collection and create new experiences with art, culture and science.

Once again, there was great interest in our online Bachelor Open Day, with attendance comparable to last year. Remarkable this time around: an unusually large number of Dutch visitors.

Lorenzo Moroni is the lucky recipient of an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his proposal entitled “The hydrocup: a hollow electrospun scaffold for in vivo cell-laden hydrogel delivery”.

In 2019, Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE), a UM-led alliance, was judged the most promising answer to the European Commission’s call to develop and implement the first model for a European University. YUFE Director Daniela Trani on why and how she wants to change European higher...

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has appointed Angelique Palmen as a member of the UM Supervisory Board for a period of four years.
 

The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music is currently working on the forthcoming publication ‘Futuring Classical Music’ based on the 2021 symposium theme.

The new UM president, and former rector magnificus, Rianne Letschert leaves no room for doubt. She is delighted with the choice to profile the university as the European university of the Netherlands. Maastricht University forms an international and predominantly European community in a region...

Studio Europa and the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), also based in Maastricht, have been selected to host a pan-European citizens' summit in Maastricht on 11 to 13 February as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe.