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Two years ago our first year student Jassim Aba Al-Khail sadly passed away. It was the personal desire of Dr. Mohammed Aba Al-Khail to make a gift to Maastricht University, in commemoration of his beloved son. To this end, a fund was created at the Limburg University Fund that bears Jassim’s name and honors his life.

On September 1st 2018, Peter Peters will be officially appointed as Professor of Innovation of Classical Music at Maastricht University and will stand at the helm of the newly-founded Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM). Proposed and initiated by the director and intendant of the South Netherlands Philharmonic, Stefan Rosu, the MCICM is set to become an interdisciplinary research institute that will support revitalising developments in the classical music sector. 

The NurSus project has won the 2018 Guardian University Award in the category 'Sustainability Project'.  The NurSus-project focused on developing open access online education materials for teaching sustainability in nursing and health care programmes. The NurSusTOOLKIT (www.nursus.eu) was funded by the Erasmus+ programme and developed by academics at Plymouth University (lead partner), University of Jaen, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences and Maastricht University (ICIS). 

André Rieu and Claudia Sarti, the director of The InnBetween, fired the starting shot for the 5th edition of Duckrace Maastricht, which drew great public interest on Sunday. No fewer than 10,000 little plastic ducks were sold in the run-up to the race. Some 3,000 of these cute yellow creatures took part on behalf of UM rector Rianne Letschert and Karin van der Ven, founder of Jules student services.

In the years of economic growth, workers’ participation in courses and training has remained stable. However, the gap between lower and highly educated workers is still growing.

Peter Peters appointed professor at the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM).

Upon invitation of the Department of International Law from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Moscow, MCEL member Prof. Dr. Marjan Peeters attended the XVI Blischenko Conference on Public International Law.

Dr Mickael Hiligsmann, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment at CAPHRI, was announced the winner of the ESCEO Medal of Excellence.

As of May 15, 2018, Professor Carmen Dirksen will succeed Dr. Gemma Voss as managing director of the Clinical Trial Center Maastricht B.V. (CTCM). Professor Dirksen, also head of the KEMTA department, has accepted the CTCM directorship temporarily uptill January 1st, 2019.