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… enthusiastic. However, it is pointless to deny who you are. Without opting for Europe and internationalisation, UM would never have become what it is today. We, as the youngest university in the Netherlands, have been able to distinguish ourselves and experience growth. In turn, this growth has enabled us to act as an economic and social engine in a peripheral region that is developing from a disadvantaged position into a leading innovative and truly European region. The most visible evidence of …
… set time. “It becomes a lot more tricky with things like for example TikTok, which I am now trying to familiarise myself with. Thank goodness, I have my students to update me on the latest trends and developments.” Helping those sold to Sparked by his experiences around a delayed flight, Spanakis tries to take care of the less tech-savvy. “The airline did not respond to my compensation claim at all until I pressured them on social media. When they denied I was eligible, I took my case to the …
… at Podium24 helped him with this. Ultimately, their search led to an internship at Maastricht University. "Wassim started his internship with us in 2019," continues Marcel Hendriks, team leader at Maastricht University. "We offered him a learning and experience workplace at the ADP department group (Archive, Documentation and Postal Affairs), where we work with 18 staff members, divided over 5 departments. Wassim was deployed in the first weeks as a project support officer and he assisted with the … From this department he got a good picture of our organisation and the document flows concerning staff. Because of Wassim's social skills, he was quickly and easily accepted within the team. Thanks to his great motivation and eagerness to learn, he experienced considerable growth in the execution of his work. Wassim quickly mastered the subject, at a later stage started to discover input errors made by others, and in the last part of his internship he even shared his knowledge of work …
… to BISCI’s way of working from a few weeks prior to that. On the very first day, I was part of a high-level meeting with one of our business clients and that set a straightforward expectation with me. This first month has been a comprehensive learning experience. I have been working on projects that require me to combine my knowledge of computer science and management. I have been entrusted with projects involving artificial intelligence/business intelligence, large-scale data analysis and other …
… important new routines: attend all online teaching moments (as long as you’re healthy) and complete specific tasks each week. Next, creating a feeling of ‘us’, showing empathy for students, involving them, and replying quickly. Make sure they experience successes, these are trying times for them as much as for us. Furthermore, they emphasize that active learning is especially important in an online environment, and teaching should support this, for example by requiring elaboration or …
… he says. ‘It’s a year ago that it took hold, and we’ve been making a lot of progress to achieve compliance. We are quite far along, I can safely say that. We have made the important steps to ensure the safety of people’s personal data.’ As for his own experience one year on as SBE’s dean, Møllgaard ranks it very high. ‘It’s going really well,’ he says. ‘One year is a big milestone to reach. Good things are happening here. We are really moving. We are working on strategy, we’re working on …
… in the T500, I had to go through a selection procedure similar to a job application. We also had to list our idols.” Dirk chose André Kuipers, a Dutch astronaut who has spent 204 days in space. Kuipers is set to give a talk at the conference. “What he experienced, his journeys, that’s really special. But the way he speaks about it… He talks about his experiences in such a, well, down-to-earth way. I like that a lot about him, and it’s so interesting to hear about all the different aspects of space travel.” To infinity, and beyond Space travel may be ambitious, but there is no shortage of ambition …
… reviewed with all the knowledge gained for scientific research. It’s a large collaborative project, with many partners who continuously exchange knowledge and training. “That way we hope to eradicate FASD in, let’s say, 20 years”. How did you experience your PhD defence? “I’m also a musician and just like before a show, I felt a healthy amount of pressure. A gut feeling that says, ‘something is about to happen’. And then you’re standing there answering questions. I had a lot of fun doing …
… need to teach citizens how and where to find it. We’re living in a world with a huge political battle over what is true and what is false, and universities are at the centre of this battle. Providing good reasons is our mission.” Fostering freedom His experience as a writer, politician and professor has made him a passionate believer in the importance of freedom – but he is also acutely aware of its vulnerability. As it was put by the thinker Isaiah Berlin, the subject of a biography by Ignatieff, …
… uninspiring wording of the Paris Climate Accord unfavourably to Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology, Laudato si’. True but not plausible As a young man in India, Ghosh was caught in the eye of a tornado that nobody saw coming. He tried to turn the experience into a plot point, but eventually gave up, real life being too far-fetched for a novel. Literature’s struggle to address climate change is emblematic of a more general imaginative and cultural failure. We make sense of the world through …