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Steven 'Lectrr' Degryse is the winner of the European Cartoon Award 2024

Does practicing on virtual lungs help pulmonology trainees to properly navigate the airways? Eveline Gerretsen explains her research on this.

In October 2024, European Law Open published Matteo Bonelli and Mateus Correia de Carvalho’s article "No need to look, trust me! Mutual trust and distrust in the European arrest warrant system". 

We are excited to announce the AI Prompt Library, a collection of prompt templates designed to help you effectively use generative AI tools. 

In many industries today, a few "superstar" firms dominate while many others lag behind. This concentration contributes to wage inequality, reduced aggregate productivity, and diminished competition and innovation. In countries with many small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this dominance can limit the supply of skills and deplete growth opportunities for these businesses. What sets these leading firms apart? What skill-building strategies do they employ? These questions are central to Mantej Pardesi's PhD project, "Please Mind the 'Productivity' Gap," which explores how firms compete for skills by training and hiring to narrow the gap with industry leaders.

On October 15th, professor Piet van den Brandt received the MUMC+ medal as a token of appreciation for his services over almost 40 years.

On Friday afternoon, 18 October, Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture, and Science) paid a working visit to Maastricht. There, he was briefed by Limburg's educational institutions on current educational topics from the Education Manifesto. The minister also engaged in conversations with teachers and students. Through practical examples, Bruins gained a clear understanding of how education in Limburg is joining forces and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by its border location. In addition, the Province of Limburg and the educational institutions expressed their concerns about government plans that do not sufficiently take these regional opportunities into account.

Society is stuck on a one-way superhighway of value destruction, if you ask Nancy Bocken. Here, the professor of Sustainable Business & Circular Economy proposes how we might exit the highway of linear consumption—and why what we do matters.