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Maastricht University (UM) is located at the heart of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. The borders are barely visible, but that does not mean that they can’t put a brake on the development of the region. UM is committed to making these obstacles visible and, on the basis of scientific research, initiating...

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.

The average societal costs of people with obesity and overweight are almost  €11.500 per year. This leads to a total cost for the Netherlands of more than €79 billion per year. This is the outcome of the study Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of...

In the G30, thirty students from Maastricht University will work together on a creative piece of work about the future of Europe. As part of this project, they will follow workshops and meet various leading European politicians, policy makers and opinion leaders.

At the beginning of 2021, Rabobank and Microsoft officially announced their decision to join forces to create Rabo Carbon Bank (RCB), an online marketplace for carbon trading (Hoff, 2021). Building on Rabobank's origins as a farmers' bank and Microsoft's position as an IT leader, the Rabo Carbon...

Recently, ZonMw awarded a grant worth 742.000 euros to Marieke Spreeuwenberg and her team to develop a measurement scale for integrative health approaches.

Lex Greeven, PhD candidate at the department for Gravitational Wave and Fundamental Physics wins poster prize at NWO Physics@Veldhoven