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Government Commissioner Mariette Hamer, responsible for addressing issues related to sexual misconduct and sexual violence, participated in a discussion with students and staff at Maastricht University on Friday, 15 September. Joining her were Executive Board President Rianne Letschert and Joyce Grul, the programme manager for Sexual Safety at UM. The discussion was moderated by Constance Sommerey, UM's Diversity Officer.

Alexandra Supper challenges the conception that skills training operates separately from Problem-Based Learning (PBL) principles.

Legal scholar Amy Azhar on the unintended consequences of the possible new legislation limiting the influx of foreign students in the Netherlands.

For 40 years already, Annemie Mordant has been convinced that academic and support staff are stronger together. Until her retirement, as the head of MEMIC (the centre for research data management), she dedicated herself to optimally facilitating collaboration between academic and support staff. “We can all learn from and support one another in conducting research, each from our own perspective.” In those 40 years, Mordant has seen a lot change in the area of research support—from digitisation to stricter legislation and to open science. Now that Mordant is retiring, how does she reflect back on the past 40 years of research data management?

We are glad to unveil our Smallholder-oriented Data Governance report. We aim through this report to stir debate and drive consensus among the stakeholders in the data ecosystem of smallholder farmers to lay the foundation for a fair and efficient data governance system.  

Fossil subsidies undermine climate policy, says Patrick Huntjens and other colleagues in an opinion article.

On 15 September 2023, the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) started the new academic year 2023-2024 with its Opening Event on “Social Justice and EU Law”. 

During the 2023 ERS International Congress in Milan (Italy), the ERS presented the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 to Professor Martijn Spruit.

EDLAB invites Maastricht University teaching staff to apply for an EDLAB education innovation grant à € 5,000,-.

The €30,000 grant will help Elissaveta and the teacher’s team behind the learning line 'Politics and Governance in the EU' within the European Studies BA and MA programmes to update and enlarge the existing courses with additional knowledge on the institutional responses of the EU to the numerous crises that continuously confront Europe.