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What does it mean to live and work in a city with an international university? When do you notice the university, and how does it benefit you? We asked  Marcell Ignéczi. He came to South Limburg to study at Maastricht University’s Department for Knowledge Engineering, Marcell Ignéczi went on to co-found COMPUTD, a company dedicated to bringing AI solutions to the region he now calls his home. 

At SHE, Juliët Beuken is researching how healthcare professionals learn to collaborate with each other in practice, and all the challenges that come with it. 

The Children’s Rights Research team worked on a report that shows how the rights of children in de facto states can be included in de United Nations human rights monitoring and reporting cycles.

MCEL is organising a seminar featuring Prof. Eleftheria Neframi on the constitutional limits to sustainable development in the EU's external action.

Two years ago, Maastricht University and Radboud University launched a joint offer to get more first-degree teachers into the classroom in the Dutch province of Limburg. The focus then was on lateral entrants from outside education and second-degree teachers who wanted to obtain their first-degree qualification. From next academic year, regular students from Maastricht University can also participate in the joint teacher training programme, which takes place partly in Nijmegen, partly in Maastricht.

As a patient in a hospital, you see many different faces at your bedside every day: a nurse measuring your blood pressure, a doctor or nurse practitioner informing you about the care plan, and a nutritionist providing you with the right food and drinks. Although all these caregivers have their own roles, ultimately, patient care is a collective effort. To ensure patient safety, it is important that they all collaborate well, but this is easier said than done. Collaborating in healthcare is something you need to learn!

The international finals of the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (ICCC) took place in Lublin, Poland, in the second week of April 2024. The finals were organized by the Catholic University of Lublin. Teams from 22 countries from all over the world participated.

The team representing Maastricht pleaded at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg in April 2024, ending top four out of the 80 participating teams. 

The VR-enhanced PBL project report produced by EDLAB and DEXLab explores the benefits of integrating VR technology into PBL classrooms.

Digitalisation can help support facilitating setting up potential cross-departmental and societal research collaborations for science-centred research and impact creation to deal with ever-increasing complexity of societal challenges. The critique of disciplinary research silos can be corresponded by experimenting with interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary scientific knowledge co-creation and distribution via utilization of digitisation, digitalisation and eventually platformisation among relevant stakeholders.