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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is so impressed by ‘Senior Friendly Communities’ that it has recently labelled the cross-border project for seniors in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine as a “Best Practice” for Europe.
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Several companies and Maastricht University joined forces to develop the new academic chair on Youth, Food and Health at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. The appointed professor will spend five years conducting research on healthy eating patterns in young people.
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A portrait of Ralf Peeters, professor of Mathematics. Without him, the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, which offers one of UM’s most successful study programmes, would have been swallowed up by another faculty long ago. Not that he’d ever say as much himself. Read on for portrait of a bridge builder, a puzzler, an art lover and, above all, a scientist.
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Professors Wynand Wijnen and Riet Drop are being posthumously honoured through the naming of a new classroom after each of them.
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The number of buildings with a sustainability certificate has grown considerably in major cities, according to the annual U.S. Green Building Adoption Index, published by CBRE and Maastricht University.
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The Maastricht University Regulations on Reporting Misconduct takes effect from 1 July 2018. This regulation replaces the Whistleblowers' regulations.
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UM employees have used prize money to buy educational toys for 17 primary schools in Limburg. The toys - two programmable robots - teach children the basics of programming in a playful way.