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FPN Faculty Council elections 2022
The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience has one of the smaller Faculty Councils at Maastricht University with just five student...
Brendan Hogan & Peter Pelzer
May 15, 2022


How do you imagine 2050?
Today, I want to try and turn some of all the gloomy futures that surround us these days in terms of war and climate change into...
Katherina Petersen
May 15, 2022


SBE Faculty Council Elections 2022
The upcoming elections between the 16th to 19th of May will decide next year’s SBE Faculty Council members. The Faculty Council is the...
Valentina Giolli
May 14, 2022


FHML Faculty Council Elections 2022
It’s that time of year again, from the 16th until the 19th of May you will be able to cast your votes in the online student elections....
Brendan Hogan
May 14, 2022


University Council elections 2022
From the 16th to the 19th of May, Maastricht University holds online elections for the University’s Council. These elections are open to...
Anthi Likitsakos
May 13, 2022


Law Faculty Council elections 2022
The elections this year for the Faculty Council are taking place from 16 to 19 May. The Law Faculty attracts students from all over the...
Leilani Radaideh
May 13, 2022


FASoS Faculty Council Elections 2022
Another year, another round of FASoS student elections. But what exactly are these elections about? Well, I’m here to give you an...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
May 13, 2022


FSE Faculty Council Elections 2022
Faculty Council Students The Faculty of Science and Engineering, which consists of the Maastricht Science Program, the Department of Data...
Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
May 13, 2022


Dear Diary, I want to be elected to the University Council…
Why did I decide to participate in the elections at the University of Maastricht? I was born in a country of Eastern Europe, lived there...
Guest Writer
May 11, 2022


Who writes history? A detour beyond the official narrative of history
Whether at school or in university, most of us learned about the Paris Peace Conference as a crucial event in European history. Are you...
Paula Nörr
May 8, 2022


The Contumacious Opioid Epidemic: The Five Pillars
Chinese water tortue is a process by which cold water slowly drips onto the scalp or forehead of a victim who is strapped face up on an...
Leilani Radaideh
May 8, 2022


The GIG economic times for the EU: on our way to a more socially proactive Union
Thirty years have gone by since the city where we find ourselves, Maastricht, witnessed the birth of the European Union (EU), bringing...
Ana Navarro Bullo
May 8, 2022


Facebook: The only crucial book of the digital age
Facebook and co. might be the big tech equivalent to the infamous toxic ex-partner most of us have at least encountered in the movies....
Anahita Lotfollahzadeh
May 7, 2022


Space as an extension of earth?!
Some thoughts about the next decades in space More than 50 years ago, NASA and humanity reached a milestone in space exploration when...
Simon Wirtz
May 7, 2022


Who is ensuring the Rights of Refugees? The Poland-Belarus Border Crisis
Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Al-Raimi, a 37-year-old Yemeni migrant, was buried in Bohoniki, Poland, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. He was one of the...
Rhiannon Read
May 6, 2022


The Cultural Fallout of the Cold War
27 October 1962. Far below the surface of the Atlantic, a stone's throw from Cuba in international waters, lies a submarine. Inside,...
Brendan Hogan and Valentina Giolli
May 6, 2022


Snakes and Ladders: Sudan’s Long Way to Democracy
Sudan’s movement towards democracy has been a long and arduous journey that has yet to find light at the end of the tunnel. The fight for...
Sarbani Bag and Jonathan Wijayaratne
May 6, 2022


A license to hack: Russia in Ukraine
In cybersecurity it is no longer asked if your system gets breached, it is asked when. No system is safe in the 21st century. Since...
Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
May 6, 2022


If I can, then I will
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine remains one of the hottest topics of 2022, for obvious reasons I would say. In this Sunday summary, I don’t...
Lucrezia Nicosia
May 1, 2022


Marriage in China
Marriage pressure can be felt when relatives make comments such as ‘your clock is ticking’ and ‘it's time to start a family’, or about...
Ekaterina Zemskova
Apr 25, 2022
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