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Do we want, and is it possible, to improve our educational system via Artificial Intelligence? This was the central question during a special Ideation Session recently hosted by the Brightlands BISS Campus in Heerlen.
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How can companies motivate their sales employees to take work-related training aimed at developing their skill sets? “Make them write reviews about their learning experience,” advises Dominik Mahr of Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics in a research paper published in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Marketing.
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Sophie Vanhoonacker is one of the Ambassadors of this year’s Duck Race supporting the Refugee Project Maastricht
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The Staatsman Thorbecke Fund of the KNAW has awarded a grant for a research project on ‘Strengthening the role of the local council’ by Klaartje Peters.
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UM student Costas Georgiades on his efforts to help those who need it most - and on his experiences on Lesbos
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Claire Huijnen’s PhD research into social robots in healthcare features in a documentary on Dutch TV tonight. Thanks to her help, social robot KASPAR can help autistic children. In 'Scenarios for a normal life' (part of Autism Week on NPO2) you can see how eight-year-old Jonathan from Limburg benefits from it.
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Mathijs Van Peteghem on the benefits and potential pitfalls of diversity in tutorial groups
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The ‘E-manager Chronic Diseases’ project, a collaboration between CAPHRI, TNO, NIVEL and the University of Twente, was awarded a prestigious grant within the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) program of ZonMw earlier this month.
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What do a radio station, support for psychological problems, a library of things, an app that contains all university activities and a chess club have in common? These are the five ideas that reached the final stage of the Student Idea Competition.