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The german international broadcaster Die Welle reported on the vonlunteer work of Globalization and Development Studies student Jana Echterhoff in Mexico.

This year Pinkpop features a Brghtlands tent for the first time; the first outing of the Brightlands brand awareness campaign.

On Thursday 1 and Friday 2 June, football club MVV Maastricht will organise the Maastricht United Gamin Cup, a youth tournament for the U19 category (A-youth) that applies the so-called ‘Catch-Up Rule’.

The University attaches great importance to a good work-life balance for all UM employees. There is broad consensus that employees should take sufficient time off. Therefore all employees received an e-mail from the Board regarding accrual, registration and use of holiday leave.

NWO has awarded a Vidi grant worth 800.000 euro to six experienced UM researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros: prof. dr. Pamela Habibovic (FHML/MERLN), dr. Joost Lumens (FHML), dr. Ann Meulders (FPN), dr. Benedikt Poser (FPN), dr. Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling (FHML), and dr. Stephan Smeekes (SBE).

The results of the annual National Student Survey (NSE) held in January 2017 are again very satisfactory. Like in previous years, we requested our students to make their voices heard by participating in this survey. We are very pleased that so many of them responded to our appeal again.

A brain scan that allows you to see what sound a person has heard. Researchers from Maastricht University have recently achieved a world first by reconstructing heard sound based on a person’s brain activity.

Three students of Maastricht University have received the NWO Research Talent funding: Miriam Heynckes, Shanice Janssens and Eveline Vandewal – all three research master’s students in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

On Saturday 13 May, the sixth edition of the largest interfaculty medical contest in the Netherlands was being held: the RFC. Team Maastricht placed first, winning the title of best medical faculty.

Friday 19 May, three teams of the Health Food Innovation Management master’s programme (UM’s Campus Venlo) took first, second and third place in the preliminary round of the Ecothophelia competition: a Europe-wide competition between student teams of both universities and colleges.