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Foodsharing Maastricht is a student initiative that collects leftover food from local supermarkets and hotels. The food can then be picked up by any comers in Building X, Tapijnkazerne.

The board of editors of the European Constitutional Law Review invites submissions for its 2018 EuConst Colloquium, which will be held in Amsterdam on 5 October 2018. 

Our brains are not only an exciting area of research, but it also seems more and more that they influence how we think we should live. Ties van de Werff (FASoS) devoted his PhD research to this.

Dr Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska has recently celebrated two important distinctions. 

Informal mental health support group for internationals

The trade unions/employee organisations FNV, AC/FBZ, CNV Overheid and VAWO/CMHF and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) have reached a negotiation settlement regarding a new collective labour agreement that will affect the roughly 50,000 academic staff in the Netherlands. By the 30th of June at the latest, following consultation of those represented, the parties will determine whether this negotiation settlement will be converted into a definitive agreement.

Click here for the VSNU press release and the negotiation settlement 

On the occasion of his retirement as editor of the university newspaper Observant, Wammes Bos was handed the Maastricht University Medallion of Honour. He was awarded the distinction because of his exceptional contribution to shaping opinion and stimulating debate within UM.

Response to the report “Analysis and added value of campuses in the Netherlands”