News

  • The quality of life among people with dementia in a nursing home is just as high as for those still living at home.

  • The largest entrepreneurship event of its kind in the Netherlands is opening its doors again on 9-12 May: the Maastricht Entrepreneurship Week (MeWeek). 

  • M-CEL member Professor Lisa Waddington, in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Broderick, has written a report entitled Disability law and reasonable accommodation beyond employment, A legal analysis of the situation in EU Member States.

  • Milena Pavlova has received the AXA Award of € 250,000 for her overall research achievements. Milena works at the Department of Health Services Research as Associate Professor of Health Economics and was granted the AXA Award for her overall research achievements.

  • On Monday, 18 April, the new draft design for Tapijn was presented in the third dialogue session. The meeting took place at the Tapijnkazerne grounds.

  • Christophe van Eecke has been awarded one of the five Research Prizes from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for his PhD dissertation titled ‘Pandaemonium: Ken Russell’s Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance’. 

  • In an article by RTL Z prof. mr. dr. Raymond Luja, of Maastricht University’s Faculty of Law, has contributed about the topic of tax law. 

  • On 29 June 2016 the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border Cooperation and Mobility / ITEM is organizing a seminar on the recognition of qualifications.

  • The European Commission approved one of the final Deliverables of the FP7 project EFFACE (EU Action to Fight Environmental Crime).

  • Maastricht University plans to support a large-scale project to improve medical education in Ethiopia. EP-NUFFIC/NICHE, an organisation that promotes international collaboration in the field of higher education, has earmarked half a million euros for this project.