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In July 2021, the flooding of small towns and cities in the area between Bonn-Liege-Maastricht caused enormous material damage and human misery. In the Netherlands, Valkenburg was flooded, in Belgium Pepinster was greatly damaged and in Germany the Ahrtal (a touristic wine-growing area) and several...

PhD thesis written by Marjolein van Everdingen. This dissertation deals with the application of residence related rules to persons with a dual residence. It describes the role of residence in Dutch social security law in general and the phenomenon of dual residence in particular.

Like a number of other universities in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the world, UM has its own Open Science Community (OSCM), a bottom-up organisation supported by ten volunteers, including seven ambassadors within the faculties. One of them is PhD candidate Matthijs Sloep, a data engineer at...

Why do investors hold Socially responsible investments (SRIs)?

This blog shows insights into a project that examines investors’ true motives for SRI. The researchers conducted a lab experiment to adopt novel methods to elicit investors’ beliefs, ambiguity perceptions, and norm-following...

Last month, dr. Maud Huynen participated in the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022, May 18-20, Barcelona). Together with colleagues from various universities,  she hosted a round-table session relating to the work and experiences within the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)...

This thematic was highlighted at the AACOMA Roadshow RS4 the 10 May 2022, hosted by the partner AMIBM at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen (NL).

Will we succeed in changing the system of plastic production and waste? Professor Kim Ragaert laughingly says in this Dutch article in NRC that she is an optimist.

With the Go Live of SAP Cloud on 8 June, UM employees can arrange all kinds of personnel, procurement and financial matters online.

How do you convince children to eat healthier? “This is a complex issue,” says Edgar van Mil, pediatric endocrinologist and professor of Maastricht University’s Youth, Nutrition and Health program at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. “Complex problems demand customization.”