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Jascha de Nooijer receives the Comenius Leadership Grant for the project ‘Dream teams for a green future: on the role of interprofessional identity in collaborative and sustainable practices in health care’

Three new professors were recently appointed, and all three will take up their professorships at our faculty from 1 September next.

The Dutch trade union for educational staff AOb has awarded its first-ever Good Job Award to UM. AOb president Tamar van Gelder reports that 'this university is showing that things can be done differently', by which she refers to UM's efforts to offer permanent contracts to more lecturers.

The combined lifestyle intervention from Your Coach Next Door (YCND) will be structurally funded by the Dutch basic health insurance, from January 1, 2024 on. Both the combined lifestyle intervention and the deployment of trained central care providers will be included in the basic health insurance!

For science does not happen only through the university, Marjolein van Asselt, outgoing professor of Risk Governance at Maastricht University, argued during her farewell lecture.

Bringing scientific research and healthcare practice together. This is exactly what the Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Limburg has been doing for 25 years. The Living Lab builds bridges between practice in care for older people and scientific research. This approach is called citizen...

The Maastricht University Open Science Festival highlighted the transformative potential of Open Science, promoting transparency and reproducibility in research. The event, organized by the Open Science Community Maastricht, brought together researchers, students, and the public to explore...

Scientists at Maastricht University have succeeded in refining synthetic hydrogels to closely mimic the dynamics of human soft tissue, creating ideal circumstances for cells to grow just as they would in the human body. UM-researcher Matt Baker recently received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant...

Maastricht University’s Leadership Academy promotes leadership skills across its academic and support staff at many different levels and career stages. Ann Vanderhaeghe talks about the team’s approach, their offer and the larger debate about leadership culture.

Dean Jolliffe, lead economist at the World Bank, visited SBE to give a lecture and masterclass on Monitoring Global Poverty: Developments and Measurement Challenges. Here you will find the full recording of his visit.