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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. 

Teaching and mentoring roles often intersect, creating opportunities for academic development and personal interactions between students and tutors. 

Kira moved from Northern Germany to Maastricht for a Double Degree Programme between the University of Maastricht and Bremen. She combined her master’s 'Healthcare Provision, Management, and Economics’ with our international perspective on health in the master's ‘Governance and Leadership in European Public Health’. 

This timely book explores a diverse set of issues, ranging from fundamental rights, asylum and migration law, to the law and politics of the internal market and more institutional perspectives.

Estefania works for the European Patient’s Forum, the leading voice of patient organisations in Europe. Her role involves creating a dialogue between patient organisations and stakeholders for European projects. To uphold patient empowerment through patient advisory boards, Estefania relies on practical knowledge and tools she gained from the master’s programme Governance and Leadership in European Public Health.

Atoms and smaller elementary particles behave in unusual, sometimes unpredictable ways. It sounds strange, but it is this unpredictability that gives a quantum computer its power. Executing precise calculations with previously unheard-of possibilities in a way that physicists still do not completely comprehend: welcome to the world of the quantum computer.

The recently launched Regional Transition Platform aims to help accelerate sustainability transitions in the region. The platform focuses mainly on knowledge exchange in a participatory setting. Experiential knowledge of the Maastricht municipality is linked to the academic knowledge of Maastricht University. Other institutions in the region will also be involved. The intention is to help and strengthen each other to move forward sustainably. We speak to Nicole Rijkens of Maastricht University and Erwin de Bruin of Maastricht municipality. Together, they coordinate the platform to, as they put it themselves, "ensure that meaningful steps are taken."