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The student team from Maastricht University, Faculty of Law has won the Nuremberg Moot Court 2018 that took place in Nuremberg from 25 to 28 July. The team consisting of Anna Lena Neidmann, Marie Vesayt, Victoria Marie Häberle and Kimberley Mills competed against 45 other teams in this competition in the field of international criminal law.

Can the referral of patients with chest pain from the general practitioner to the cardiologist be more efficient? Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Maastricht University will answer this question in the near future.

How is it possible that international organisations at a certain point lose some of their competences or even are abolished by member states? Dr Hylke Dijkstra, director of the European Studies master’s programme at Maastricht University, plans to research this issue.

We congratulate all UM students who have received their degree this summer!

Onderzoeker Willemine Willems van het project Duurzame Zorg is Rechtvaardige Zorg, heeft een presentatie gegeven over haar onderzoek naar eerstelijnspluszorg tijdens de conferentie van de European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). Dit jaar vond de conferentie plaats van 25 t/m 28 juli op de Lancaster University in Engeland.

Maïs Sweid is from Syria. She lives in Limburg with her husband and five-year-old son and works for the Education Office at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN). Her advice to other refugees: “Meet Dutch people and learn the language as soon as possible.” This is a story about the success of work experience at UM.

Due to globalization and the increasingly integrated nature of regional economies, workers largely operate cross-border on a highly mobile basis. Because of this highly mobile character of activities, difficulties arise regarding the place of exercise of employment for tax purposes, and affiliated (dis)coordination difficulties between tax and social security rules.

At the graduation ceremony on 10 July, four graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme in Systems Biology. This was the second batch of Systems Biology graduates ever at Maastricht University.

Six graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme in Biobased Materials. During the graduation ceremony, the Menno Knetsch Master Thesis Award has been handed out for the first time to the student of the Master Biobased Materials that has written the best master thesis.