Threads Completed: The Tapestry of Limburg’s History of Slavery
In 2025, historians Diana Miryong Natermann and Christian Ernsten launched a research project on the history of slavery in the province of Limburg. The research was translated into a design for a 35-meter-long tapestry.
Event series 'The Perfect Storm' offers new perspectives on global unrest
29 October 2026
Many people in the Netherlands are worried and feel uncertain about the future. For them, the event series The Perfect Storm, organised by our Platform for Outreach and Co-Creation, is well worth attending, says coordinator Mariëlle Wijermars.
“The starting point for integrated neighbourhood care is the story of the neighbourhood”
28 October 2026
Creating a healthy and vibrant neighbourhood is a joint effort. But how can professionals and residents work together effectively? Arianne Elissen and Anne van den Bulck explored this in the LIME project ‘Working together for healthy neighbourhoods’.
Four Vidi grants for talented Maastricht University researchers
22 October 2026
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded four experienced researchers from UM Vidi funding, totalling 850,000 euros. This will enable them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up a research group.
UM websites and systems accessible again following security update
21 October 2026
The UM has carried out security updates on its main websites and systems in response to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which is used across large parts of the internet. Most of the platforms are accessible again.
Why don’t suspects talk? “We’re quick to think: they must be guilty”
14 October 2026
Legal researchers Dr Melanie Sauerland and Professor Miet Vanderhallen study why suspects exercise their right to remain silent — and what consequences this may have.