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Three researchers from Maastricht University (UM) will receive a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. They will receive €1.5 million each. Their funding is part of the EU Horizon Europe programme.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Lilian Tsourdi, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her project SoftEn (Soft Enforcement of EU Migration Law). 

Should AI be allowed to manipulate us on a daily basis? Should it be trained on people’s data without their knowledge or consent? How can we enforce laws concerning AI, privacy and competition? In RegTech4AI, Konrad Kollnig brings together AI and the law to answer these and other questions. 

Maastricht University is a proud member of the Young European Research Universities Network. To mark its 10th anniversary we need your creative skills to design a special anniversary logo!

With a grant of €50,000, Costas will be able to organise a 5-day workshop with 25 international experts on 3D heritage from the academic community and the public/private sector to explore 'Paradata in 3D Scholarship: Intellectual Transparency and Scholarly Argumentation in Digital Heritage'.

‘Am AI Right?’, a research project created by an interdisciplinary team of researchers of the Law and Tech Lab and the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), aims to revolutionize access to legal expertise.

In July 2024, the Common Market Law Review published Matteo Bonelli’s case note ‘Growing pains: Direct effect, primacy and fundamental rights after Lin’. The note discusses the decision of the CJEU in the 2023 Lin case, and analyses how the Court dealt with questions of direct effect and primacy, and their interaction with EU and national standards of fundamental rights, in the context of a complex rule of law dispute originating from Romania.

The case note is available here

EDLAB has developed the UM TutorKit to provide quick and easy tools for common challenges in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) classrooms. From September 2024, this new toolkit, which supports group dynamics, feedback, and evaluation processes, will be available to all UM teachers across faculties. 

Newly appointed NUTRIM Professor as of July 1st 2024

Newly appointed NUTRIM Professor as of July 1st 2024