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… Affairs in Berlin. I spent eight weeks at the department responsible for relations with central European countries, and was given the chance to transform my theoretical knowledge – gained through my three years of European Studies – into practical experiences. Read more Daniel Schnok Cyber Defense Expert DB Systel GmbH, Berlin Year of Graduation: 2014 The Bachelor in European studies has allowed me to gain a real insight in European affairs from many different viewpoints. I have studied the …
… due to the scarcity of large-scale and high-quality annotated datasets. This project addresses this bottleneck by constructing the Belgian Statutory Article Retrieval Dataset (BSARD), which consists of 100+ French native legal questions labeled by experienced legal experts with relevant articles from a corpus of 22,600+ Belgian statutory provisions. BSARD is used to develop several retrieval approaches. The aim is to test to what extent machines can identify relevant legal provisions given a … (Mystery Shopping) AI-Based Persona for Mystery Shopping (Mystery Shopping) Description: One of the most typical applications of algorithms and big data by online sellers, is the use of profiling to personalise prices, advertisements, shopping experiences etc. to manipulate consumers and optimise sellers’ turnover. These manipulative techniques often cross the line of the prohibition of unfair commercial practices and infringe the rights of consumers. This project explores whether automated …
… van intensieve interactie tussen medewerkers en studenten en tussen de UM en haar omgeving beoogt het een nauwere verbinding met onderwijs en onderzoek mogelijk te maken. De visie van CORE wordt erkend in MUSE, de Maastricht University Student Experience. MUSE heeft als algemene doelstelling studenten in staat te stellen een waardevolle beleving in Maastricht te geven die bijdraagt aan hun academische, persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling. Actief lerend in kleine groepen, vaak in een … gekoppeld aan een academische en professionele houding. De UM wil haar studenten optimaal voorbereiden voor de regionale, nationale en de in toenemende mate globaliserende internationale arbeidsmarkt. Maastricht University Student Experience (MUSE), onderdeel van het strategisch programma ‘Community at the CORE’, staat hierbij centraal. Kwaliteit is een onderdeel van het dagelijkse werk binnen de UM. De afgelopen jaren is innovatie binnen de UM gelieerd aan … Team Gedurende het jaar 2019 heeft het Student Project Team samengewerkt met UM staf aan diverse projecten, onder meer de Student Idea Competition, het Student Applicant Journey project, de aanbesteding Eten en Drinken, het Impact Lab en de Student Experience. Tevens zijn er meer dan 10 student panels geweest waar meer dan 100 studenten hun feedback hebben geven over uiteenlopende onderwerpen. Het Student Project Team helpt ook bij het creëren en uitbreiden van studenten initiatieven binnen …
… for public freedoms are solved, and which is the final outcome of the procedure. 4.2. Germany a. Context In Germany, the growing dissemination of hate crime and other criminal content in social networks, showed by official statistics in 2016, the experience of the US 2016 presidential elections and the spread of ‘fake news’ with xenophobic content spreading rumours and false alarms, triggered a legislative proposal after the Ministry of Justice concluded that hate crimes and ‘fake news’ had to …
… the chocolate industry and the European reporting landscape to provide a comprehensive overview of the underlying research topic and prevent potential biases. Therefore, an expert with in-depth knowledge of European reporting standards and practical experience with the chocolate industry was selected as the first interview partner. In addition, a sustainability consultant working in the field of global commodities, specialising in sustainable value chains and circular economy was interviewed …
… need to be consistent with the external, symmetric nature of the COVID-19 shock. This is also true for any attached conditionality.”175. The origin of the crisis is also relied on by the Commission, when it concludes that because “Member States do not experience […] difficulties of an internal origin with respect to their financial stability, […] a streamlined monitoring framework is warranted”176. This surely explains the reasons behind the procedural differences between the PCS and a standard …
… 2013; Ehnert 2015. 83 Wiener & Alemanno 2010, p. 323. 84 Alemanno & Meuwese (2012), p. 92. 85 See COM(2002) 276 final, p. 13. 86 Renda 2006, p. 94. 16 to set the threshold appropriate to catch all important proposals – but not all proposals. Here, the experience from inter alia the US, where the threshold for “major impacts” is set at ‘an annual impact on the economy of over $ 100 million’87 could possibly serve as a helpful indication. Additionally, the so-called “Doorn Report” as well as the … When reading the new Better Regulation Agenda about the Commission committing to delivering better results by changing the way the Commission works at EU level141, one 135 European Commission, Press release on ‘The Juncker Commission: A strong and experienced team standing for change’, retrieved on 23 July 2015 from http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14- 984_en.htm . 136 European Commission, Press release on ‘The Juncker Commission: A strong and experienced team standing for change’, retrieved on 23 July 2015 from http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14- 984_en.htm . 137 Lorna Schrefler, Andrea Renda & Jacques Pelkmans; ‘What can the Better Regulation Commissioner do for the EU?’, CEPS …
… travels to nursing homes in Brabant. Read the whole interview (in Dutch) Esther Versluis interviewed by Observant Esther Versluis has been interviewed by Observant for their new section ‘the second wave’. In the interview, she talks about how she has experienced working and teaching from home during the so-called second wave of the corona pandemic. Read the whole interview (in English) Pomme van de Weerd interviewed by NRC Handelsblad Pomme van de Weerd has been interviewed about her PhD … both in Dutch) Maarten Doorman interviewed by several news outlets Maarten Doorman has been interviewed by several Dutch news outlets. Het Parool interviewed him about Anna Nooshin’s instagram museum. He explains that this selfie museum fits in our experience economy but that it at the same time shows the infantalisation of society. Filosofie.nl interviewed him about Schopenhauer’s ‘The Wisdom of Life’. Nico Baakman interviewed by Omroep Zeeland Nico Baakman has been interviewed by Omroep Zeeland … combine their research with digital teaching or hear from UM students living in Brussels and their stories. The UM Campus Brussels podcast series 'Stories from Brussels' aims to connect people from different UM communities in order to share personal experiences on what it's like to live and work in Brussels. Listen to UM Campus Brussels as we chat informally with UM researchers, alumni and students about what they are working on, how they have adapted, and how they see the future. … FASoS News, …
… of the Einstein Telescope, our region could soon be the centre of European research on gravitational waves. This year’s keynote speaker was Han Dols of CERN, the European organisation for nuclear research. Han shared valuable insights about CERN’s experience in accelerating innovation and maximising the impact of technology. And about what such a mega project – which CERN in Geneva already is, and which the Einstein Telescope can become – can entail for a region. “ It may seem challenging to see …