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“The main goal was learning and having some nerdish fun!”

From 8 until 11 July 2019, the University of York organised the 2nd European Doctoral Summer School in Professional Development.

Irena Boskovic wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Professor Harald Merckelbach on “malingerers”, people who deliberately fake medical symptoms to gain some form of benefit. Here, the professor and his former PhD candidate look back on a successful collaboration. Merckelbach: “Irena is very productive, accomplished and an excellent writer.” Boskovic: “What I respect about Harald is that he’ll never play the I’m-the-professor card.”

GROWINPRO, a new EU-funded project led in part by Prof. Pierre Mohnen and Assistant Prof. Tania Treibich will provide a raft of joined-up policies to set Europe on a more balanced course of development – one fuelled by innovation but sensitive to issues like climate, demographic and labour changes. Six months into the project, we caught up with Pierre and Tania to hear the latest updates.  

Research partners from pharma, academia, and SMEs have come together to form the Reward Task Optimisation Consortium (RTOC): an initiative aimed at advancing the development of clinical tools to measure motivational functions in people suffering from mental disorders. Researchers at Maastricht University have joined this consortium.

Maastricht University (UM) periodically updates its privacy statement so that it is as complete and up-to-date as possible. The UM privacy statement was last updated on 25 July 2019.

NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities has awarded funding to three UM researchers in the NWO Open Competition – SSH.

Most students go home during the summer time. But not all! Why do they stay in Maastricht and what do they do during the summer?