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We are proud to announce that the open executive programmes of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) have been included in the global top 80 by the Financial Times in their Open-enrolment Executive Education Ranking 2024. 

For a casual way to explore tasty plant-based cuisine in good company, you may want to check out Maastricht goes Vegan, a non-profit cooking event. Werner Teeling of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience is one of the organisers. 

Alumnus Alessandro Portante is running twenty marathons in twenty days across the twenty regions of his home country Italy, a challenge he calls Project Venti.

The UM team came second in the Grand Final of the 12th edition of the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition, which took place at the European Court of Human Rights. 

On 3 April 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network was pleased to welcome Dr. Laura Mai, Postdoctoral researcher at the Constitutionalising in the Anthropocene project, as a speaker in the context of its seminar series.

On October 10, 2024, the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award will be presented for the sixth time. Candidates can apply for it until 14 June. The award is aimed at anyone in the Netherlands-Germany-Belgium border region who is working on a dream to accelerate the circular transition. A prize of € 35,000 is attached to the award, earmarked for realising that dream.

Early career researchers from the University of Cyprus (UCY) are taking part in a training session at UNU-MERIT as part of the TWIN4MERIT project aimed at boosting research and innovation excellence.

Elsje Fourie receives €50,000 in the NWO SSH XS funding scheme for the project ‘Global Novels, Global Readers? Imagining transnational communities along the circuits of global literary consumption’

The new episode of the podcast ‘Conversations: Globalization and Law’ features Cecilia Malmström, former EU Commissioner for Trade and Home Affairs.

Climate change and environmental pollution are central challenges of our time. Environmental policies that can effectively and equitably incentivize the energy transition, foster climate change resilience and adaptation, and reduce the detrimental impact of environmental degradation on human well-being are urgently needed. To this end, policymakers must strike a balance between the benefits and costs of such policies.