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… en onderzoekers kunnen beter geïnformeerd worden over wat de EU precies van projectvoorstellen verwacht en over met wie samen te werken. De discussie over hoe dat te doen moet nu gevoerd worden zodat de UM weet wat te doen als Horizon Europe van start gaat. Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … In juni jl. presenteerde de … en onderzoekers kunnen beter geïnformeerd worden over wat de EU precies van projectvoorstellen verwacht en over met wie samen te werken. De discussie over hoe dat te doen moet nu gevoerd worden zodat de UM weet wat te doen als Horizon Europe van start gaat. … Zijn Europese onderzoekprogramma’s interessant voor de UM? …
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… Zoekresultaten 30 september 2020 door: in General Maastricht Students During my bachelor’s I found a side-job as a student coach for elementary and secondary school children. I noticed that learning math or reading was not always as easy for others as it was for me. You sit next to a student, trying to explain one algebra exercise for the 10th time. While they are racking their brains or having lost concentrating from the start, all your efforts seem lost. I am sure that I am not the only person who experienced a lack of patience during these moments (props to all parents and teachers). Through this experience, I learned that if you want to help other students you need … need help. So how do we do this successfully? Enter Match for Brighter Futures (MFBF). This project enables teenagers from secondary school [middelbare school] who cannot afford normal homework services to match up with university students who voluntarily coach them. Not only do the students help teenagers with their homework, but they also coach them with planning and guiding their ambitions. MFBF differentiates itself from ordinary homework services since the underlying intention helps younger …
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… Zoekresultaten 30 november 2017 door: in Law Recent events suggest that the Eurozone may soon be entering a new phase of its short but already tumultuous life. As the dust of the sovereign debt crisis starts settling, and the continent slowly returns to growth, winds of change are blowing across the zone, and EMU reform is back on the EU agenda. EU Fiscal Governance in the post-crisis era: The start of the reflection period and the European Fiscal Board’s first report The context is ripe to critically reflect on the economic governance system the crisis has brought about, and on the actions carried out by the EU institutions and the Member … implementation, severe economic downturn). The overpowering complexity of EU fiscal governance Certainly, a major shortcoming of this new normative body is its overwhelming complexity. In the post-crisis era, EU fiscal discipline consists of a dense web of detailed rules and sub-rules governing public debt, deficit and expenditure. Those rules display a high level of prescription and specificity, and yet, are tempered by an equally complex array of general escape clauses and potential loci for …
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… Zoekresultaten 8 november 2017 door: C.A.R. Moerland in Law Roland Moerland spoke at Docfest about the bystander effect, empathy and agency, self-sacrifice and other remarkable features of the documentary City of Ghosts . ‘I watch the video a lot. It gives me strength’ states Hamoud al-Mousa of the media initiative Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), after watching a Hollywood style ISIS propaganda film in which his father is brutally executed. The surreal scene features in Matthew Heineman’s latest documentary City of Ghosts, which follows a group of young citizen journalists that report on the gross human rights violations perpetrated against the inhabitants of Raqqa first by Assad’s regime and later by ISIS. The documentary provides fascinating insights as to why and how human beings …
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… Zoekresultaten 3 oktober 2023 door: T.J. Dekker in University Council Dear Members of the UM Community, September is a month full of new beginnings. People in the university community take up new roles, start new research projects, or enroll in new classes. And while we might sometimes be nostalgic for the lazy days of summer, it’s also kind of nice to get to work. So too at the University Council. With many new members joining, the Council had a … ICT innovation, internationalization, and various research institutes. It is important to keep in mind that these are just the investments the central university is making for new initiatives, and so these come on top of the normal budgets of the faculties and service centres. These other investments add up to about €16 million next year. The Council had several questions, relating to how to promote sustainability and the funding of language education, but ultimately advised the Executive Board … would like to work on next year is engagement with the community, sharing more of our work with staff and students, but also soliciting input from them. An opportunity that already exists, but isn’t used very often, is the Speakers’ Quarter; any group in the university can request the opportunity to address the Council, to draw its attention to important issues. If you’d like to know more, feel free to get in touch with me at chair-ucouncil@maastrichtuniversity.nl . Moreover, the Council has …
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… quite a while before the European countries realized and recognized that the influx from asylum-seekers via the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey into the European Union is not just a matter of controlling the outside borders of the Union, but also a humanitarian and human rights issue. Some European member states, such as Hungary, blocked borders to prevent asylum-seekers from entering. The government of Denmark has advertised in newspapers in Lebanon to discourage refugees from Syria to come to … border management, through its Titron Operation on the Mediterranean, was focused primarily on border control, instead of searching and rescuing people who were in distress. In my opinion, the current refugee crisis in Europe does not only raise humanitarian concerns and moral responsibilities, but also legal obligations arising from human rights treaties and EU law. In addition to the Refugee Convention which contains obligations to grant asylum and of non-refoulement, all European states are … to extraterritorial human rights obligations of states. Instead, in terms of principles and priorities in cooperation aimed at fulfilling human rights extraterritorially, states must prioritize the realisation of the fundamental rights of vulnerable groups. These include providing them with relief, shelter and food for the protection of their dignity. Such action would be in accordance with UN Charter obligations to realize human rights universally. Labels: borders human rights european law …
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… Zoekresultaten 21 februari 2022 door: in Law As course coordinator and tutor for the only mandatory law course in the Bachelor in European Studies, I typically start the course with a clear message to students: Law as a discipline has its own language and logic and you can only get the hang of it by doing it. This means attending and participating in the tutorials. Since other course coordinators probably tell … me that students who do not attend also typically do not pass, but which empirical evidence do I really have for making this statement? None of the students challenged me on the empirical soundness of my guarantee, so I decided to do so myself. When starting my course Ordering Europe this academic year (260 students), I decided to link students’ final results to their class attendance. The methodology of my enquiry was rather rudimentary. The six tutors were asked to check attendance for each … areas in the top left and bottom right). These are students that did not attend more than one tutorial but still passed the course (four in total) and students that attended 80% or more of the tutorials but that did not pass the course. The first group requires me to qualify the guarantee that I gave the students, but does not detract from its message: Yes, they can pass the course without attending, but only if they believe they are part of the 1,5% of students that manage to pull this off …
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… Zoekresultaten 3 februari 2015 door: in Maastricht Students As bills don’t pay themselves an income is required, some obtain it by working for a wage, others by starting up their own business and some are so talented that they can make an income out of their hobby. In the Weekly column ‘My Way to Make Money’ we interview a student or a university employee about their job or business and ask them questions about … until 3.30pm with the last tutorial at 4pm and ends at 6pm. Although it’s the same teaching you do, each class is different and that gives the class new dynamics. If students are well prepared, you can give them more space for discussions while some groups need more guidance. On days where I do not teach, I’m either doing some readings to prepare for classes later in the week, or I am making/grading exams or revising bachelor papers. I like my job because It’s dynamic, I’m not teaching the same … I was a research assistant for the head of the history department. He made me aware of the position and advised me to apply because he thought it would suit my abilities. After the interview, I was offered the position which was 2 years ago. I started my job in the summer of 2012. The main reason for choosing this job is that I knew I would enjoy teaching because I have done it before so it wasn’t far outside of my comfort zone. It was the first job offered to me after university and nothing …
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… Zoekresultaten 27 oktober 2015 door: R.H.C. Luja in Law Today the European Commission released its first set of decisions on corporate tax rulings, which it has investigated for over a year. Starbucks Manufacturing EMEA and Fiat Finance and Trade were the first test cases where final decisions have been issued. At this point in time, only press releases are available. Formal decisions will be made public several weeks from now. But what we … tax authorities had agreed to a tax treatment that was more favorable than what should have been the result of a normal application of the Dutch and Luxembourg tax systems to the facts of the case at hand. It mainly questions the facts presented in Starbucks, such as the amount of royalties paid for know-how on coffee roasting and even the fact that such royalties had to be paid at all (other Starbucks group companies did not have to pay royalties at all), the payment of inflated prices for coffee bought from a Swiss associate (leading to tax deductible costs), and, for Fiat, its capital and the remuneration for such capital was found to be …
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… Zoekresultaten 17 maart 2017 door: M. Bonelli in Law On March 7, 2017, the CJEU concluded that EU law does not oblige Member States to issue humanitarian visa to Syrian individuals and families seeking international protection. Despite the humanitarian disaster in Syria, safe legal routes to Europe remain a mirage. Notes on the CJEU’s ruling on humanitarian visas for Syrians (Part 1) As a response to the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, international human rights actor and NGOs have repeatedly called for the creation of safe legal routes from Syria to Europe, to be used by …