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How can Europe strengthen its competitiveness in a rapidly changing world? This question took centre stage in Maastricht on 1 October, when Maastricht University and the Netherlands France Chamber of Commerce brought together academics, business leaders, policymakers and alumni for the European Comp

New research by Maastricht University SBE and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship shows that social enterprises rarely follow a linear path to growth. Based on nine Latin American enterprises, the study highlights the importance of context, adaptation, resilience and social impact.

SBE Professors Didier Fouarge and Inge de Wolf have joined Dutch advisory councils on productivity and education, bringing research expertise on labour, skills and education to national policy discussions.

Professor Nancy Bocken’s new honorary fellowship at Copenhagen Business School strengthens a decade-long partnership with Maastricht University, creating new opportunities for research, education and collaboration on global sustainability challenges.

Education Lab and Dutch schools are bringing research and practice together to improve education. With €4.3 million in new funding, their co-creation labs will deepen collaboration, develop evidence-informed solutions and help spread effective approaches across the Netherlands.

Christian Scholl and Job Zomerplaag from Maastricht University have now received a €50,000 KIN Grant from Klimaatonderzoek Initiatief Nederland (KIN) to investigate how these community funds function and what impact they have.

Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics (SBE) remains firmly among the world’s top 100 business schools in the Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking 2026. SBE's MSc International Business ranks 68th worldwide and second in the Netherlands.

Samen Sterk van Start supports early-career teachers through intensive guidance from external mentors. The project investigates whether this preventive approach can reduce teacher attrition and help tackle the teacher shortage.

After nearly twenty years of increasingly higher demands being placed on the skills of recent graduates from universities of applied sciences, a striking shift has become apparent starting in 2023.

UnveilML combines econometrics and machine learning to better estimate hidden factors such as financial risk, the business cycle, and global warming. By adding long memory, interpretability, and reliable uncertainty estimates, it aims to deliver more trustworthy insights for high-stakes decisions.