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Student associations, emergency service providers and entrepreneurs: they were all immediately enthusiastic when Martijn Weyenberg, project manager at Match, approached them to participate in ‘A day ‘without illness’’ (‘Een dag niet ziek’). The result was clearly visible last Saturday: only happy...

How to reconcile science, innovation and precaution? Follow RECIPES to keep abreast of ongoing discussions, learn about case study findings and get engaged in the development of new tools that help policymakers to make sound decisions.

The University Library recently launched a new tool for researchers: the Similarity Check Service. This tool helps researchers to prevent sloppy referencing or plagiarism.

UM researcher Mireille Sthijns has won the 2018-2019 Impact Course competition for her research into the treatment of type I diabetes.

As part of our series Maastricht, reflecting on Europe, Aalt Willem Heringa, professor of (Comparative) Constitutional and Administrative Law, calls for more powers to the European Parliament.

In late 2018, when the ‘current’ contract with Elsevier ended, VSNU and Elsevier agreed to continue the talks on a new contract while the existing agreements were maintained. Now the current contract will be extended for an additional six months to allow more time for the negotiations.

Helmut Brand and Peter Schröder-Bäck of the research line VHC participate in the Erasmus+ project “Prevent it”. 

Prof. Jochen Cals is a versatile man; general practitioner (GP) in Sittard and researcher at the Department of Family Medicine. He gave his inaugural lecture on 28 June.

Students of the Biobased Materials master’s programme took third prize in the Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe with their idea to convert waste cooking oil into vinyl ester resins.