Podcast episode on climate change regime complex
In this second episode of the podcasts series on regime complexity, FASoS students will look closer at the climate change regime complex.
The guest is Maheen Khan, a lecturer at Maastricht Sustainability Institute. Together with FASoS students, she will discuss the role of different actors in the climate change regime complex.
You can listen to the podcast on Spotify or on SoundCloud.
Share your advice on scientific funding with the Dutch government
Together with Populytics, De Jonge Akademie is organising an online consultation to give all researchers the chance to join the discussion on the division of research funding and to bring out advice to politicians.
Should more money be given to permanent contracts, excellent researchers or research in teams?
Share your advice on the future of Dutch science funding with politicians and university boards up until 1 July 2022 via this link.
FASoS prize for ‘brilliant failures’ in technology-enhanced learning
You are invited to submit suggestions for the Prize for ‘brilliant failures’ in technology-enhanced learning, which will be awarded on 16 June, at the FASoS Teaching & Learning Festival.
A brilliant failure is a good attempt at achieving something, which has a different outcome than anticipated, and which provides the opportunity for collective learning.
Submit your suggestions via an e-mail to Andreea Nastase.
Read on for more details.
Decisions and announcements Faculty Board meetings April 2022
The Faculty Board of FASoS held meetings in April.
Please read on for an overview of the decisions and announcements.
Podcast by FASoS honours students on International Regime Complexity
As part of the honours programme, a group of FASoS students made a three-part podcast series on regime complexity.
In episode 1, they introduce regime complexity from “two and a half” angles, discussing what the concept means and how we ended up in a world governed by regime complexes. How has academia made sense of regime complexity using IR theory and what problems does regime complexity create?
Listen to the podcast on Spotify or SoundCloud.
Call: V-100 for the Dutch Parliament
The Dutch parliament has opened the V-100 call in which it calls for young academics to shed their light on the annual reports of the ministries, and inform parliament about their findings. The questions are sent to the responsible ministers and secretaries of state.
Interested candidates can apply here until 7 May. For more information, see here.
Apply for free tickets for EuroScience Open Forum
From 13 – 16 July, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will take place in Leiden.
ESOF is the largest multidisciplinary science conference in Europe, for and with society. UM is giving away two tickets to the conference to talented students/young researchers (up to 35 years old).
Interested in attending the conference for free? Send a motivation letter (max. 300 words) to secr.philotss@maastrichtuniversity.nl before 3 May.
UM Gender Equality Plan published
As of January 2022, the EU Commission requires every research or higher education institution to have a gender equality plan in place, in order to be eligible for funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027. This is part of the Commission’s broader aim to strengthen and support gender equality work in the areas of research, innovation and technology.
Access the UM Gender Equality Plan (GEP) here.
Decisions and announcements Faculty Board meetings March 2022
The Faculty Board of FASoS held meetings on 9 and 23 March.
Please read on for an overview of the decisions and announcements.
Podcast ‘Stories from Brussels’ about UM PhD candidates in Brussels
Listen here to episode 5 of the ‘Stories from Brussels’ podcast series.
This podcast series aims to connect people from different UM communities in order to share personal experiences on what it’s like to live and work in Brussels.
In this episode, UM PhD candidates living in Brussels talk about their research projects and their motivation in pursuing a PhD degree.
Guests:
- Pelin Özgül (SBE)
- Joey Tang (FASoS)
- Teresa Vázquez López (FASoS)
