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The students of Precious Plastic Maastricht have big plans for the future, with the ultimate goal of building four recycling machines for plastic waste. “What’s in Maastricht stays in Maastricht – that should become the new norm when it comes to plastic.”

FASoS researcher Joey Tang received the award for his research on gender inequality in Dutch organisations by using 'big data'.

Favourable gut flora in very young infants reduces their chances of developing allergies. Good gut bacteria that leave anti-inflammatory metabolites in the intestinal tract are much more prolific in non-allergic children. This was the finding of a long-term study by Maastricht researchers on the gut flora in 400 infants.

Patrick Bijsmans (FASoS) and Carla Haelermans (SBE) have been awarded UM funding for a Diversity & Inclusivity research project on the international classroom and global citizenship education.

During EuroSim 2020, an international, interuniversity and transatlantic simulation of the European Union, the FASoS team won 3 out 5 possible awards.

Maastricht University has been officially admitted into the LHCb experiment at CERN, starting January 2020. At the same time, the Faculty of Science and Engineering installed a new chair, prof. Marcel Merk, on collider physics into the newly founded research group.

PhD thesis written by Mai Kaneko-Iwase.
Are your parents really 'unknown'? Assessment of 'foundinghood' under international law to avoid statelessness. While the scholarly body of knowledge on statelessness in general has expaned in recent years, little has been written on foundlings in general. The objective of this study is to address the gaps in the existing literature.

Research awarded funding by NWO Rubicon for UM Researcher Dr. S.G. (Sami) Mohammed (FHML/MERLN)