DigiMach is a transnational 3-year collaborative approach that will transform manufacturing across the Meuse-Rhine region by bringing AI, IoT, and robotics to small and medium-sized enterprises in the machining sector. The project will assist more than 150 SMEs to adopt smart, digital tools, through...
What began as a local pilot in the operating theatres of Zuyderland Medical Centre has now grown into a European initiative with global potential. The mission: to stop burning clean plastic in hospital waste and instead recycle it into high-quality materials for reuse in medical applications.
Research into the Einstein Telescope is generating valuable technological expertise. The new ETpathfinder Smart Skills Lab at Maastricht University aims to spread this new knowledge to small and medium-sized enterprises.
UM and HAS collaboration takes shape: Céline Nicole bridges fundamental and applied research in high-tech horticulture.
Last week saw the very first edition of the MaGIC Summer School take place in Maastricht. The event brought together secondary school physics teachers from around the world to learn more about gravitational waves and the Einstein Telescope.
Dutch scientists created MEANtools, a smart tool that reveals how plants make specialised compounds, reducing lab work.
Who’s to blame if AI goes wrong? And who’s responsible for it not having a negative impact in the first place? In her PhD thesis, "A Showing of Hands: Making Visible the Ethical Agency of AI Developers", Tricia Griffin looks at the people behind the technology and the clichés. She argues that we...
How can parents gain a better understanding of what artificial intelligence (AI) means for their child’s education? At Maastricht University, Martijn Boussé and colleagues are launching an innovative project that actively involves parents of secondary school pupils in Limburg in the development of...
Two programmes, one at Maastricht University and one jointly offered by the universities of Maastricht and Nijmegen, have been given the green light. Both tech and science-based programmes focus on a sustainable world and are part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The programmes will start...
Natasha Lawrie, a bachelor’s student from the Maastricht Science Programme, conducted her thesis research in the rainforests of Sabah. There she made surprising discoveries about the feeding habits of the endangered Bornean elephant.
