News
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With the support from the Brightlands Smart Services Campus, the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus BV and Connect Holland BV during the last months, Maastricht University alumni Laura Thiel, Marta Giralt and Oskar Person and their team won the Health Track of the 2018 Blockchaingers Hackathon (5 to 8 April in Groningen) by DutchChain!
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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.