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  • During the Dutch Food Week, Bart Vos hosted the interactive workshop ‘Sustainable food, how does it get on our plate?’ at BISCI’s home turf, the Villa Flora in Venlo. While the focus of the Dutch Food Week is mainly on what we eat, Bart’s workshop addressed how we get food where we want to consume...

  • The conference 'Populism and Democracy' brings together scholars of constitutional law and political science from around the world to discuss the influence of populist politics on constitutional developments, the reasons for success or failure of constitutional defences, and potential ways out of...

  • Jacques Claessen, criminal lawyer from Maastricht University’s law faculty, still thinks the European Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October is important.

  • Pain during sex is a constant for one in 10 women, and one in three women experience this kind of  pain occasionally. Then there are those women who suffer from vaginismus, who are so afraid of the pain that they avoid sexual intercourse completely.

  • Electric mobility is the future? According to ITEM researcher Martin Unfried it sure is!

  • BISCI participated in a workshop hosted by TKI Dinalog for the Nationale WetenschapsAgenda (NWA)-route 16 on ‘Logistics, Transportation and Mobility’ on Friday 4 October.

  • As of 1 January 2020, all associate professors (with UHD profiles 1 and 2) who hold a PhD degree and hold a UM employment contract will be granted ius promovendi for an indefinite period of time. Consequently, these associate professors can be assigned as supervisors of PhD projects starting as of 1...

  • Ilaria Passarani defended her PhD dissertation October 8, 2019 at Maastricht University.