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Women are in the minority in closed treatment facilities (TBS) and other forms of forensic care worldwide. In the Netherlands, only 10% of patients admitted to forensic care are women, but their number is slowly increasing. Do the existing treatments and measurement instruments, developed...

1390 prospective master's students visited Maastricht University's six faculties last Saturday during the open day held twice a year. They came to experience the atmosphere and learn more about the master's programmes, problem-based education, the UM buildings and the good life in Maastricht.

Yoy Bergs started the master’s programme Occupational Health and Sustainable Work (previously known as Work, Health and Career) with a bachelor in International Facility Management. During her bachelor, she discovered that the workplace has an effect on employees’ wellbeing. This sparked her...

The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is offering internship opportunities in financial and sustainability reporting activities! EFRAG is a Non-Profit Organisation established in 2001 with two main activities in financial reporting and sustainability reporting.

A new type of biomaterial for bone cancer patients. Based on nanoparticles and polymers the composite material will kill remaining cancer cells and instruct the body to regrow surgically removed bone. MERLN’s Sabine van Rijt has won the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for her Nano4Bone research...

Funded by the NWO, a major new research project called PRICELESS is starting and led by Dr. Christoph Rausch, Associate Professor at Maastricht University and affiliated with MACCH, among others.

SBE alumnus Niels Geominy did not follow the typical career-path as you would expect from someone graduating from a Business School. When most of his fellow SBE alumni were signing contracts to work for multinationals, Niels decided to launch his own start-up: Fiks.

On 13 March 2023, the latest Globalization & Law seminar took place. We had the pleasure to listen to prof. Patricia Popelier speak about her ongoing research on “Trust in Multi-Tiered Systems”. Dr Šejla Imamović acted as a discussant.

Things are bustling around the kitchen table of Burak Can, associate professor of Data Analytics and Digitalisation. A mix of Turkish, English and Dutch can be heard. “I speak Turkish with my children, my wife Ingrid speaks Dutch with them, and we speak English with each other.” On the menu is one...