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Maastricht University (UM) is the youngest and most international university in the Netherlands that stands out for its global outlook, innovative education model and multidisciplinary approach to research and education.
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Children living in “de-facto states” often fall through the cracks of international law. When war erupts, who’s responsible for protecting their rights — and why does this legal limbo still exist? 📘
Read the full article 👉 edu.nl/xjp3k
#InternationalLaw #ChildRights @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Read the full article 👉 edu.nl/xjp3k
#InternationalLaw #ChildRights @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Children living in “de-facto states” often fall through the cracks of international law. When war erupts, who’s responsible for protecting their rights — and why does this legal limbo still exist? 📘
Read the full article 👉 edu.nl/xjp3k
#InternationalLaw #ChildRights @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Read the full article 👉 edu.nl/xjp3k
#InternationalLaw #ChildRights @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Illustrations can help us understand research. 🎨📚 In Picture This, Dundee arts students team up with UM scholars to visualise complex social-science ideas — making them clearer, more human, and sometimes even reshaping the research itself.
Explore the project: edu.nl/9kf9x
#ResearchCommunication
Explore the project: edu.nl/9kf9x
#ResearchCommunication
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Illustrations can help us understand research. 🎨📚 In Picture This, Dundee arts students team up with UM scholars to visualise complex social-science ideas — making them clearer, more human, and sometimes even reshaping the research itself.
Explore the project: edu.nl/9kf9x
#ResearchCommunication
Explore the project: edu.nl/9kf9x
#ResearchCommunication
Despite a cooling labour market, shortages in healthcare, education and tech won’t disappear. Slower job growth and rising youth unemployment signal uncertainty, fuelled by political instability. 📉
Read the full ROA report 👉 edu.nl/frxfj
Read the full ROA report 👉 edu.nl/frxfj
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Despite a cooling labour market, shortages in healthcare, education and tech won’t disappear. Slower job growth and rising youth unemployment signal uncertainty, fuelled by political instability. 📉
Read the full ROA report 👉 edu.nl/frxfj
Read the full ROA report 👉 edu.nl/frxfj
Macrophages might not just drive liver damage — they could help repair it. FHML and CARIM researcher Sabine Daemen is using her NWO Veni grant to explore how these immune cells could slow fibrosis and shape new therapies. Read the full story 👉 edu.nl/q8qej
#LiverDisease #BiomedicalResearch
#LiverDisease #BiomedicalResearch
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Macrophages might not just drive liver damage — they could help repair it. FHML and CARIM researcher Sabine Daemen is using her NWO Veni grant to explore how these immune cells could slow fibrosis and shape new therapies. Read the full story 👉 edu.nl/q8qej
#LiverDisease #BiomedicalResearch
#LiverDisease #BiomedicalResearch
MAPEX is UM’s student research team working with surgeons and scientists to study aortic aneurysms 🫀. From the OR to the biobank, students take real responsibility early on. Five alumni share how it shaped their careers—read their story 👉 edu.nl/akc47
#LifeSciences #MedicalEducation
#LifeSciences #MedicalEducation
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
MAPEX is UM’s student research team working with surgeons and scientists to study aortic aneurysms 🫀. From the OR to the biobank, students take real responsibility early on. Five alumni share how it shaped their careers—read their story 👉 edu.nl/akc47
#LifeSciences #MedicalEducation
#LifeSciences #MedicalEducation
How can rediscovering touch, sound, smell and sight transform learning? Emilie Sitzia spent 4 years exploring just that. The result: a rich graphic guide to senses-based learning, made with students and creatives.
Explore it here 👉 edu.nl/ngn8c
#SensoryExperience #AcademicLearning
Explore it here 👉 edu.nl/ngn8c
#SensoryExperience #AcademicLearning
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
How can rediscovering touch, sound, smell and sight transform learning? Emilie Sitzia spent 4 years exploring just that. The result: a rich graphic guide to senses-based learning, made with students and creatives.
Explore it here 👉 edu.nl/ngn8c
#SensoryExperience #AcademicLearning
Explore it here 👉 edu.nl/ngn8c
#SensoryExperience #AcademicLearning
Discovery Museum in Kerkrade makes the Einstein Telescope (ETEC) tangible. Students operate lasers, analyse real gravitational-wave data and turn their insights into creative projects—showing they already understand more physics than they think. 👉 edu.nl/7fryb
#EinsteinTelescope #STEMEducation
#EinsteinTelescope #STEMEducation
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Discovery Museum in Kerkrade makes the Einstein Telescope (ETEC) tangible. Students operate lasers, analyse real gravitational-wave data and turn their insights into creative projects—showing they already understand more physics than they think. 👉 edu.nl/7fryb
#EinsteinTelescope #STEMEducation
#EinsteinTelescope #STEMEducation
🏆 De Afghaanse jurist Zala Watanyar (38) wint de UAF Award 2025!
Na haar komst naar Nederland leerde ze Nederlands, behaalde mbo- en hbo-diploma’s en rondde haar Bachelor Rechten én Master Criminologie af aan UM. Gefeliciteerd Zala – een inspirerend voorbeeld van doorzettingsvermogen!
edu.nl/dhr63
Na haar komst naar Nederland leerde ze Nederlands, behaalde mbo- en hbo-diploma’s en rondde haar Bachelor Rechten én Master Criminologie af aan UM. Gefeliciteerd Zala – een inspirerend voorbeeld van doorzettingsvermogen!
edu.nl/dhr63
Vluchteling-student Zala Watanyar wint UAF Award 2025 - UAF
De Afghaanse Zala Watanyar (38) is uitgeroepen tot winnaar van de UAF Award 2025, de jaarlijkse prijs van Stichting voor Vluchteling-Studenten UAF. Met haar indrukwekkende ver…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🏆 De Afghaanse jurist Zala Watanyar (38) wint de UAF Award 2025!
Na haar komst naar Nederland leerde ze Nederlands, behaalde mbo- en hbo-diploma’s en rondde haar Bachelor Rechten én Master Criminologie af aan UM. Gefeliciteerd Zala – een inspirerend voorbeeld van doorzettingsvermogen!
edu.nl/dhr63
Na haar komst naar Nederland leerde ze Nederlands, behaalde mbo- en hbo-diploma’s en rondde haar Bachelor Rechten én Master Criminologie af aan UM. Gefeliciteerd Zala – een inspirerend voorbeeld van doorzettingsvermogen!
edu.nl/dhr63
Augmented reality is changing rehabilitation. 👓
Melvyn Roerdink develops AR tools that turn therapy into interactive games for people recovering from stroke or Parkinson’s. Therapists can monitor progress remotely — freeing time for patients who need extra care. 👉 edu.nl/78hf8
#Rehabilitation
Melvyn Roerdink develops AR tools that turn therapy into interactive games for people recovering from stroke or Parkinson’s. Therapists can monitor progress remotely — freeing time for patients who need extra care. 👉 edu.nl/78hf8
#Rehabilitation
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Augmented reality is changing rehabilitation. 👓
Melvyn Roerdink develops AR tools that turn therapy into interactive games for people recovering from stroke or Parkinson’s. Therapists can monitor progress remotely — freeing time for patients who need extra care. 👉 edu.nl/78hf8
#Rehabilitation
Melvyn Roerdink develops AR tools that turn therapy into interactive games for people recovering from stroke or Parkinson’s. Therapists can monitor progress remotely — freeing time for patients who need extra care. 👉 edu.nl/78hf8
#Rehabilitation
How can a 19th-century writer still shape today’s laws? 📚
Victor Hugo’s ideas on justice, freedom and equality take centre stage at Hugo and the Law — a creative UM exhibition blending literature, history and legal thought.
Explore the power of culture to shape law 👉 edu.nl/fmter
Victor Hugo’s ideas on justice, freedom and equality take centre stage at Hugo and the Law — a creative UM exhibition blending literature, history and legal thought.
Explore the power of culture to shape law 👉 edu.nl/fmter
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How can a 19th-century writer still shape today’s laws? 📚
Victor Hugo’s ideas on justice, freedom and equality take centre stage at Hugo and the Law — a creative UM exhibition blending literature, history and legal thought.
Explore the power of culture to shape law 👉 edu.nl/fmter
Victor Hugo’s ideas on justice, freedom and equality take centre stage at Hugo and the Law — a creative UM exhibition blending literature, history and legal thought.
Explore the power of culture to shape law 👉 edu.nl/fmter
Get to know our bachelor’s programmes from home 👀
Missed our Bachelor’s Open Day? No worries — explore our programmes online! 🎓 Watch our interactive videos to see what studying at Maastricht University is really like.
Start exploring today 👉 edu.nl/f8awa
#Bachelors #MaastrichtUniversity
Missed our Bachelor’s Open Day? No worries — explore our programmes online! 🎓 Watch our interactive videos to see what studying at Maastricht University is really like.
Start exploring today 👉 edu.nl/f8awa
#Bachelors #MaastrichtUniversity
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Get to know our bachelor’s programmes from home 👀
Missed our Bachelor’s Open Day? No worries — explore our programmes online! 🎓 Watch our interactive videos to see what studying at Maastricht University is really like.
Start exploring today 👉 edu.nl/f8awa
#Bachelors #MaastrichtUniversity
Missed our Bachelor’s Open Day? No worries — explore our programmes online! 🎓 Watch our interactive videos to see what studying at Maastricht University is really like.
Start exploring today 👉 edu.nl/f8awa
#Bachelors #MaastrichtUniversity
The future of our food is growing in the labs at Brightlands 🔬🍇
At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, Next Generation Farming brings together tech and cultivation know-how to create future-proof food production.
Discover how these new labs turn research into real-world solutions: edu.nl/kvyxg
At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, Next Generation Farming brings together tech and cultivation know-how to create future-proof food production.
Discover how these new labs turn research into real-world solutions: edu.nl/kvyxg
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The future of our food is growing in the labs at Brightlands 🔬🍇
At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, Next Generation Farming brings together tech and cultivation know-how to create future-proof food production.
Discover how these new labs turn research into real-world solutions: edu.nl/kvyxg
At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, Next Generation Farming brings together tech and cultivation know-how to create future-proof food production.
Discover how these new labs turn research into real-world solutions: edu.nl/kvyxg
🎓 Today, we’re offering live coverage of our Bachelor’s Open Day on our Instagram Stories. Join us to explore our programmes, hear from current students and staff, and get an inside look at life at UM.
Follow along on instagram.com/maastrichtuniversity and experience the day as it happens!
Follow along on instagram.com/maastrichtuniversity and experience the day as it happens!
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🎓 Today, we’re offering live coverage of our Bachelor’s Open Day on our Instagram Stories. Join us to explore our programmes, hear from current students and staff, and get an inside look at life at UM.
Follow along on instagram.com/maastrichtuniversity and experience the day as it happens!
Follow along on instagram.com/maastrichtuniversity and experience the day as it happens!
Can Europe resist the digital oligarchy?
“Europe has been very naïve,” says digital democracy researcher Valentina Golunova. By ignoring Big Tech’s societal impact, we’ve allowed Silicon Valley to gain disproportionate global power—arguably above democracy itself. 🏛️⚖️
Read more 👉 edu.nl/8f9hp
“Europe has been very naïve,” says digital democracy researcher Valentina Golunova. By ignoring Big Tech’s societal impact, we’ve allowed Silicon Valley to gain disproportionate global power—arguably above democracy itself. 🏛️⚖️
Read more 👉 edu.nl/8f9hp
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can Europe resist the digital oligarchy?
“Europe has been very naïve,” says digital democracy researcher Valentina Golunova. By ignoring Big Tech’s societal impact, we’ve allowed Silicon Valley to gain disproportionate global power—arguably above democracy itself. 🏛️⚖️
Read more 👉 edu.nl/8f9hp
“Europe has been very naïve,” says digital democracy researcher Valentina Golunova. By ignoring Big Tech’s societal impact, we’ve allowed Silicon Valley to gain disproportionate global power—arguably above democracy itself. 🏛️⚖️
Read more 👉 edu.nl/8f9hp
From a smart idea in Maastricht to a global standard: the Vitrobot just hit its 1,500th unit. Developed at Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, it helps scientists study diseases like Alzheimer’s and COVID-19 by freezing samples with extreme precision.
🔗 edu.nl/paxvt
#Innovation #Brightlands
🔗 edu.nl/paxvt
#Innovation #Brightlands
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
From a smart idea in Maastricht to a global standard: the Vitrobot just hit its 1,500th unit. Developed at Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, it helps scientists study diseases like Alzheimer’s and COVID-19 by freezing samples with extreme precision.
🔗 edu.nl/paxvt
#Innovation #Brightlands
🔗 edu.nl/paxvt
#Innovation #Brightlands
Jongeren in het mbo kiezen hun studie vooral op basis van interesse en talent, niet op arbeidsmarktkansen. Om toekomstige tekorten te voorkomen, is een sterkere koppeling tussen onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt nodig.
📘 Lees het ROA-rapport: edu.nl/tmmd7
#Arbeidsmarkt #Onderwijs
📘 Lees het ROA-rapport: edu.nl/tmmd7
#Arbeidsmarkt #Onderwijs
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Jongeren in het mbo kiezen hun studie vooral op basis van interesse en talent, niet op arbeidsmarktkansen. Om toekomstige tekorten te voorkomen, is een sterkere koppeling tussen onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt nodig.
📘 Lees het ROA-rapport: edu.nl/tmmd7
#Arbeidsmarkt #Onderwijs
📘 Lees het ROA-rapport: edu.nl/tmmd7
#Arbeidsmarkt #Onderwijs
Eleven Dutch research consortia are launching projects worth €197M to boost science, innovation and social prosperity. Maastricht University researchers play a key role in seven projects — leading two. 👏
Read more 👉 edu.nl/ukvp3
#Research #Innovation
Read more 👉 edu.nl/ukvp3
#Research #Innovation
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Eleven Dutch research consortia are launching projects worth €197M to boost science, innovation and social prosperity. Maastricht University researchers play a key role in seven projects — leading two. 👏
Read more 👉 edu.nl/ukvp3
#Research #Innovation
Read more 👉 edu.nl/ukvp3
#Research #Innovation
🎓 UM turns 50! 🎉
Join the festive Dies Natalis on 23 January 2026 — celebrating five decades of community, curiosity and impact with the theme .
Seats are limited, so register before 5 December via the link in your inbox.
👉 More info: edu.nl/tnrnn
#UM50 #DiesNatalisUM
Join the festive Dies Natalis on 23 January 2026 — celebrating five decades of community, curiosity and impact with the theme .
Seats are limited, so register before 5 December via the link in your inbox.
👉 More info: edu.nl/tnrnn
#UM50 #DiesNatalisUM
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🎓 UM turns 50! 🎉
Join the festive Dies Natalis on 23 January 2026 — celebrating five decades of community, curiosity and impact with the theme .
Seats are limited, so register before 5 December via the link in your inbox.
👉 More info: edu.nl/tnrnn
#UM50 #DiesNatalisUM
Join the festive Dies Natalis on 23 January 2026 — celebrating five decades of community, curiosity and impact with the theme .
Seats are limited, so register before 5 December via the link in your inbox.
👉 More info: edu.nl/tnrnn
#UM50 #DiesNatalisUM
When you cut your skin, it heals itself — but what if bones and cartilage could do the same? 🦴
PhD candidate Tim ten Brink is developing 3D-printed implants that help the body regenerate damaged joints, offering new hope for osteoarthritis patients.
Read more 👉 edu.nl/k6by8
@merln-um.bsky.social
PhD candidate Tim ten Brink is developing 3D-printed implants that help the body regenerate damaged joints, offering new hope for osteoarthritis patients.
Read more 👉 edu.nl/k6by8
@merln-um.bsky.social
Letting bone and cartilage repair themselves
When you have a wound on your skin, the skin usually repairs itself in a few weeks. That principle forms the basis of regenerative medicine: investigating how the body can rep…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
When you cut your skin, it heals itself — but what if bones and cartilage could do the same? 🦴
PhD candidate Tim ten Brink is developing 3D-printed implants that help the body regenerate damaged joints, offering new hope for osteoarthritis patients.
Read more 👉 edu.nl/k6by8
@merln-um.bsky.social
PhD candidate Tim ten Brink is developing 3D-printed implants that help the body regenerate damaged joints, offering new hope for osteoarthritis patients.
Read more 👉 edu.nl/k6by8
@merln-um.bsky.social
Welcome to the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) 🎓
One of EU’s leading institutes on education and labour research — combining top-tier science with real-world policy impact. Also home to ambitious PhDs and researchers shaping the future of work.
🎥 Full video: roa.nl/home
One of EU’s leading institutes on education and labour research — combining top-tier science with real-world policy impact. Also home to ambitious PhDs and researchers shaping the future of work.
🎥 Full video: roa.nl/home
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Welcome to the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) 🎓
One of EU’s leading institutes on education and labour research — combining top-tier science with real-world policy impact. Also home to ambitious PhDs and researchers shaping the future of work.
🎥 Full video: roa.nl/home
One of EU’s leading institutes on education and labour research — combining top-tier science with real-world policy impact. Also home to ambitious PhDs and researchers shaping the future of work.
🎥 Full video: roa.nl/home
From here… to a sustainable UM 🌍
The road to #Sustainability isn’t a sprint — it’s a shared journey of dedication and cooperation. UM’s Sustainability Roadmap 2030 sets out 3 key ambitions:
🌱 a thriving community
🌍 a circular campus
♻️ a climate-neutral university by 2035
More here 👉 edu.nl/ukjej
The road to #Sustainability isn’t a sprint — it’s a shared journey of dedication and cooperation. UM’s Sustainability Roadmap 2030 sets out 3 key ambitions:
🌱 a thriving community
🌍 a circular campus
♻️ a climate-neutral university by 2035
More here 👉 edu.nl/ukjej
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
From here… to a sustainable UM 🌍
The road to #Sustainability isn’t a sprint — it’s a shared journey of dedication and cooperation. UM’s Sustainability Roadmap 2030 sets out 3 key ambitions:
🌱 a thriving community
🌍 a circular campus
♻️ a climate-neutral university by 2035
More here 👉 edu.nl/ukjej
The road to #Sustainability isn’t a sprint — it’s a shared journey of dedication and cooperation. UM’s Sustainability Roadmap 2030 sets out 3 key ambitions:
🌱 a thriving community
🌍 a circular campus
♻️ a climate-neutral university by 2035
More here 👉 edu.nl/ukjej
🔬The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced today which researchers will receive a Vidi grant, allowing talented scientists to further develop their research.
👉 To read about the three fHML researchers awarded a grant today, visit: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/three-v...
#research #health
👉 To read about the three fHML researchers awarded a grant today, visit: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/three-v...
#research #health
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔬The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced today which researchers will receive a Vidi grant, allowing talented scientists to further develop their research.
👉 To read about the three fHML researchers awarded a grant today, visit: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/three-v...
#research #health
👉 To read about the three fHML researchers awarded a grant today, visit: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/three-v...
#research #health
The University Fund Limburg (UFL) was founded in 1965, with the aim of stimulating academic education in the Province of Limburg.
60 years later, the Fund looks back on a rich history—and forward with strong ambition.
👉 Read the whole article: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/univers...
60 years later, the Fund looks back on a rich history—and forward with strong ambition.
👉 Read the whole article: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/univers...
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The University Fund Limburg (UFL) was founded in 1965, with the aim of stimulating academic education in the Province of Limburg.
60 years later, the Fund looks back on a rich history—and forward with strong ambition.
👉 Read the whole article: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/univers...
60 years later, the Fund looks back on a rich history—and forward with strong ambition.
👉 Read the whole article: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/univers...
🌍 Under ERASMUS+, UM sends and receives more students than any other Dutch university — over 1,800 a year. UM President Rianne Letschert calls her own exchange “an amazing experience” that opened her eyes to new perspectives. Read the full interview with Rianne: edu.nl/bcqbh
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌍 Under ERASMUS+, UM sends and receives more students than any other Dutch university — over 1,800 a year. UM President Rianne Letschert calls her own exchange “an amazing experience” that opened her eyes to new perspectives. Read the full interview with Rianne: edu.nl/bcqbh
“Ukraine must not be a footnote during the Dutch elections,” argues Yf Reykers of Maastricht University.
While Dutch voters focus on housing or healthcare, Reykers warns that ignoring Ukraine would be a mistake — our safety depends on a strong eastern flank.
Read his opinion 👉 edu.nl/mywpg
While Dutch voters focus on housing or healthcare, Reykers warns that ignoring Ukraine would be a mistake — our safety depends on a strong eastern flank.
Read his opinion 👉 edu.nl/mywpg
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Ukraine must not be a footnote during the Dutch elections,” argues Yf Reykers of Maastricht University.
While Dutch voters focus on housing or healthcare, Reykers warns that ignoring Ukraine would be a mistake — our safety depends on a strong eastern flank.
Read his opinion 👉 edu.nl/mywpg
While Dutch voters focus on housing or healthcare, Reykers warns that ignoring Ukraine would be a mistake — our safety depends on a strong eastern flank.
Read his opinion 👉 edu.nl/mywpg