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… Search results A Criminal Law event 29 March 2021 15:30 - 1 April 2021 16:30 Three Interdisciplinary webinars This webinar series is organised by the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience of Maastricht University and the Faculty of Law of Leiden University. These events bring together international experts to discuss pre-trial detention from an interdisciplinary perspective and investigate possibilities for an EU action. Three webinars are planned, each providing insights into the most topical aspects of the law and practice of pre-trial detention. The webinars are open to the public upon registration. First Webinar: Harmonisation of pre-trial detention in the EU: is it …

… Christmas and therefore staying in Maastricht? That is probably not the way you had imagined the 2020 holidays. To liven up your Christmas day, Student and Career Counsellor Bob Joormann is organising a nature walk for UM students on the Sint Pietersberg.   The plan is to hike around the hill, enjoy the wintery scenery, and chat a bit. Bob will bring warm tea and hot chocolate, so bring a mug. Due to the stricter lockdown, we will be walking in separate groups of two people. All groups will start at slightly different times, so we can comply with the corona measures. You will be informed via e-mail. When:  25 December at 12:00 (noon) Where:  at the bike parking directly in front of ‘Chalet Bergrust’ on the Sint Pietersberg Duration:  a …

… Search results 23 May 2022 Het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit Maastricht heeft Prof. dr. Mariëlle Heijltjes, hoogleraar managerial behaviour, benoemd tot decaan van de School of Business and Economics (SBE). Zij begint op 1 september 2022 voor een eerste benoemingstermijn van vier jaar. Mariëlle Heijltjes volgt Peter Møllgaard op, die sinds april 2018 decaan was van SBE. Mariëlle Heijltjes kent een lange en succesvolle carrière binnen SBE. Naast haar hoogleraarschap is zij op dit moment directeur van UMIO, het SBE-instituut dat leertrajecten verzorgt voor professionals en organisaties. Eerder was zij als vice-decaan binnen de faculteit verantwoordelijk voor internationalisering en …

… and Spanish to Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian. There is something for everyone.    What language would you like to learn? Online registration is now open for the intensive beginner Dutch courses : NL-A1 (also available online) and NL-A2 DT, starting in January 2025.   Registration for Social Dutch in period 4 (February) opens on Monday, January 20, 2025. Modern Foreign Language, Dutch, and English (non-Cambridge) courses will resume in February 2025. Registration opens on December 9, 2024. Web-based courses are available year-round. Our online registration form shows only courses and groups with available spots or an active waiting list. Interested in the various start dates for our courses? Check out our   annual course schedule .   Did you know we organise a Language Café once a month? More information Contact Before sending us a …

… Search results Since its start in 1997 MUNDO had facilitated fair, inclusive and sustainable development by working with institutions around the world. We work with partners in countries ranging from Indonesia and Vietnam to El Salvador and Nicaragua, from South Africa and Mozambique to Ukraine and Turkey and from Ghana and Sierra Leone to Egypt and Kenya. With the involvement of Maastricht University’s faculties and institutes, we strengthen educational programmes at our partner institutions. We develop research in cooperation with our partners. We support innovations to make education and research more relevant for development. Many of our projects … internationally reputable knowledge and experience with to student-centred learning, like Problem-Based Learning. Contact Postal address MUNDO Maastricht University PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands Visiting address    Minderbroedersberg 8, room 1.003     Han Aarts , directeur     + (31) 43 3883513 MUNDO Projects MUNDO activities revolve around – mostly large scale – collaboration projects, aiming at institutional capacity building and human resources development.   Read more …

… 2019 Lawyers are often seen as ‘bookworms’, who are not averse to combing through the literature. But searching through ten thousand court rulings for the one that is most relevant can be too much for even the hungriest bookworm. The pilot project Web of Laws is therefore working to develop tools that quickly filter the relevant rulings for lawyers—with FAIR data use and open science as important anchors. Sitting in front of his floor-to-ceiling bookcases, you might think that Prof. Gijs van … therefore cannot be used. That’s what tools like ours are going to solve.” A network of rulings, better than in the books The tools are based, among other things, on social network analysis, which can be used to analyse the communication behaviour of groups of people. Who talks to whom? Who is popular, who is on the periphery? If you enter all rulings and the references they make to the rulings of others into a system in the same way, what will emerge is a network with the most relevant rulings in … open science There are differences of opinion on what FAIR exactly is, as Van Dijck has already learned. “What exactly do you mean by ‘reusable’ and ‘combinable’? That you provide some code, or is there also a program that allows you to immediately start working with the data?” The pilot project is mainly about finding out what challenges are involved in the use of FAIR data—which, by the way, is different than ‘open science’. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s about making your research results …

… Search results 3 October 2019 The HPV Vaccination Decision Aid is a new, interactive website that helps mothers and their daughters make informed decisions about the HPV vaccination, which protects against the development of cervical cancer. Mothers are therefore better informed and more willing to have their daughters vaccinated … in deciding on their daughters’ HPV vaccination. That’s why this research focused on mothers. They also had an important voice in the development of the website.”   Social change “It’s crucial to provide proper information that meets the needs of the target group”, Pot says. “Only those who have all the information can make well-considered decisions about HPV vaccination.” “Which is especially important today”, adds Ruiter. “There’s been a social change in recent years: people have become increasingly …