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On 3 April 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network was pleased to welcome Dr. Laura Mai, Postdoctoral researcher at the Constitutionalising in the Anthropocene project, as a speaker in the context of its seminar series.

On October 10, 2024, the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award will be presented for the sixth time. Candidates can apply for it until 14 June. The award is aimed at anyone in the Netherlands-Germany-Belgium border region who is working on a dream to accelerate the circular transition. A prize of € 35,000 is attached to the award, earmarked for realising that dream.

Early career researchers from the University of Cyprus (UCY) are taking part in a training session at UNU-MERIT as part of the TWIN4MERIT project aimed at boosting research and innovation excellence.

Elsje Fourie receives €50,000 in the NWO SSH XS funding scheme for the project ‘Global Novels, Global Readers? Imagining transnational communities along the circuits of global literary consumption’

The new episode of the podcast ‘Conversations: Globalization and Law’ features Cecilia Malmström, former EU Commissioner for Trade and Home Affairs.

Climate change and environmental pollution are central challenges of our time. Environmental policies that can effectively and equitably incentivize the energy transition, foster climate change resilience and adaptation, and reduce the detrimental impact of environmental degradation on human well-being are urgently needed. To this end, policymakers must strike a balance between the benefits and costs of such policies. 

Teaching and mentoring roles often intersect, creating opportunities for academic development and personal interactions between students and tutors. 

Kira moved from Northern Germany to Maastricht for a Double Degree Programme between the University of Maastricht and Bremen. She combined her master’s 'Healthcare Provision, Management, and Economics’ with our international perspective on health in the master's ‘Governance and Leadership in European Public Health’. 

This timely book explores a diverse set of issues, ranging from fundamental rights, asylum and migration law, to the law and politics of the internal market and more institutional perspectives.

Estefania works for the European Patient’s Forum, the leading voice of patient organisations in Europe. Her role involves creating a dialogue between patient organisations and stakeholders for European projects. To uphold patient empowerment through patient advisory boards, Estefania relies on practical knowledge and tools she gained from the master’s programme Governance and Leadership in European Public Health.