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Discover exciting opportunities at the most international #university in the Netherlands. #MaastrichtUniversity (UM) stands out with cutting-edge #research, innovative #education and a supportive work culture that puts your well-being first.

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December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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There will be no New Year’s reception at the Centre Céramique on the first Monday in January. That also means there will be no presentation of the annual UM employee prizes.

#NewYearsReception #DiesNatalis #UM50 #MaastrichtUniversity

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December 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@egonw/115733781245582873

with three projects awarded to #maastrichtuniversity
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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With Christmas and New Year’s just around the corner, these students reflect on the highs and lows of 2025. “There were times I felt very lonely.”

#Christmas #NewYear #Highs #Lows #Reflection #MaastrichtUniversity #Studentlife

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December 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A pro-Palestinian protest march by around twenty student activists took an unexpected turn on Friday afternoon with a brief occupation of a room at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

#Israel #Gaza #MaastrichtUniversity #Protest

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December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The Maastricht University Office is set for an overhaul. It is not a reorganisation and no one will be made redundant, stresses secretary to the Executive Board Nieke Guillory.

#MUO #MaastrichtUniversity #Overhaul

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December 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Maastricht University is officially bilingual. All staff should be able to get by in both Dutch and English, but after seven years, the language policy is still far from fully implemented.

#Bilingual #Dutch #English #MaastrichtUniversity #LanguagePolicy

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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"Eerste optreden ooit? Dat moet een dansoptreden zijn geweest, ik dans al vanaf de dag dat ik kon lopen." Eerstejaars psychologie Maja Henigman in 'Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder'.

#Dansen #Optreden #FPN #Maastricht #MaastrichtUniversity

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November 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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“Saying goodbye was a huge sacrifice”: by giving up the advanced 9.4T, the neuroscientists of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience hope to secure the replacement of the other two scanners.

#Neuroscience #Scanners #MaastrichtUniversity

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November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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When Maastricht University starts the bachelor’s program Urban Sustainability Studies in Heerlen next year, it will most likely be located in the so-called Promenade I area.

#MaastrichtUniversity #Heerlen #Sustainability #UrbanSustainabilityStudies

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November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🎓 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!
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Maastricht University is planning a revamp of INKOM. From 2027, the introduction week for first-year students will be combined with faculty-specific introduction programmes, which usually take place in the final week of August.

#INKOM #MaastrichtUniversity

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November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Just a reminder that #dhbenelux26 takes place at #MaastrichtUniversity next summer! Visit our website & read our call for papers here: https://2026.dhbenelux.org/ Our main theme will be #storytelling --- so we welcome papers, workshops or demonstrations by […]

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Digital Humanities Benelux 2026, Maastricht, 02-06 June -- still from the promotional animation
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Cyber-criminals never rest, so UM launches a cyber-resilience campaign for staff members. "The user is the weakest link."

#Cybercrime #Cybersecurity #MaastrichtUniversity #CEOfraud

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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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50 years of UM - Using adverts, radio spots and TV commercials to woo students? Beneath our dignity, thought Dutch universities well into the 20th century. But by the mid-1980s, Maastricht had no choice but to reconsider.

#UM50 #MaastrichtUniversity

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October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Join the online conference Rethinking Compliance, Governance & Legal Design (17–18 Dec 2025). Explore how AI is reshaping taxation, governance & the rule of law.

👉 Register now: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/ai-an...

#MaastrichtUniversity #AI #TaxLaw #LawAndTech
October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Students are overwhelmed by messages: there's too much noise, with too little use. UM seeks to improve the student communication, appointing coordinators to bring order to the chaos.

#Communication #Students #MaastrichtUniversity

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October 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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UM turns 50 - The Times They Are (Not) A-changin'

A runaway bus losing passengers along the way: 2009 saw the chaotic launch of the new student management system MUSL.

#UM50 #TheTimesTheyAreNotAchangin #MUSL #Chaos #MaastrichtUniversity

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October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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“Getting a haircut in Liège” and minding your step on the cobblestones: a legal walk through Maastricht with @jan-smits.bsky.social, professor of Private Law and dean of @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social.

#Maastricht #Walk #LawFaculty #MaastrichtUniversity

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October 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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UM's and MUMC+'s integration plans are still behind closed doors. UM President @rianneletschert.bsky.social now hopes to provide more transparency by January.

#MaastrichtUniversity #MUMC+ #Integration #RianneLetschert

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October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Series: UM turns 50 - the times they are (not) a changin'

1999 and later: Calatrava’s copper campus never made it past the drawing board

#MaastrichtUniversity #UM50 #Campus #Calatrava

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October 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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COLUMN - By attempting to remain neutral, @maastrichtu.bsky.social risks appearing inoperant in front of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis currently unfolding in Gaza, writes @pablo1981.bsky.social.

#Gaza #MaastrichtUniversity #Neutrality

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September 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The European Law School (@lawinmaastricht.bsky.social), has seen a sharp decline in enrolment rates this academic year. The Faculty Council raised questions. “Should we be worried about our jobs?”

#Enrolment #MaastrichtUniversity #Law

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September 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Het aantal inschrijvingen voor European Law School (@lawinmaastricht.bsky.social), is dit collegejaar fors teruggelopen. In de faculteitsraad klonken vragen. “Moeten we ons zorgen maken over onze baan?”

#EuropeanLawSchool #MaastrichtUniversity #Inschrijvingen

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September 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM