Stichting Mia Keulaerds Fonds, Stichting VOOR Parkstad and University Fund Limburg are joining forces to promote equal educational opportunities in the Parkstad region. Last week, the three parties signed the agreement at Obvion’s beautiful office in Heerlen. Not everyone has the opportunity to study: some young people face financial and social barriers. The new program…
At the beginning of October, the winners of the 17th edition of the FIR-PRI ‘Finance and Sustainable Development’ Awards were announced. The award-winning projects cover important themes, such as sustainable investing, climate change, and the measurement of ESG. This year, the award for Best Published Article was granted to professors Rob Bauer, Tobias Ruof &…
Chahinda Ghossein, researcher at UM, has been named Top Woman Limburg 2022 (Topvrouw Limburg 2022). We congratulate her on this wonderful title! It is a well-deserved reward for her valuable scientific and societal work, amongst others for the Queen of Hearts fund, which focuses on research about the impact of complications during pregnancy. The Queen…
WE ARE LIVE! Our new donor system ‘ENGAGE 365 Fundraising’ is officially LIVE. With this brand new system we can work more efficiently and future-proof and continue to involve, captivate and bind all our donors and other stakeholders. Of course we didn’t just let this ‘historic’ moment pass by and celebrated with cake, even with…
UFL-SWOL managing director Bouwien Janssen had a meeting with 1 of our scholarship students, Nisali Perera and Dr. Corine de Ruiter, professor of Forensic Psychology. De Ruiter is our contact person on behalf of the Prof. W.A. Wagenaar Fund, the grant provider. It is rare for a grant to be provided from a Named Fund,…
We proudly present the annual report 2021 of the University Fund Limburg/SWOL. A great concise overview of our special activities. Read more about, among other things, the Annual Fund campaign, company proposition, crowdfunding campaigns, Named Funds, scholarships and grants. And last but not least… our societal impact! If you would like to know more about…
Science is a charity worth supporting! Together with 13 other university funds in the Netherlands, we recently brought this message to the attention of the public in a national campaign via radio commercials and advertisements in Trouw and de Volkskrant. Our part of this campaign focused on preventive and regenerative medicine. This concerned the Healthy…
In the past months, we have received generous donations to our ‘For Each Other 2021’ campaign. Now that the campaign period is over, we are very happy to inform you that this campaign has raised more than €26,000 in total! It is very inspiring to see more and more people from the UM community, including our alumni,…
The Atoms2Anatomy Fund supports the development of Dr. Sebastiaan Van Nuffel’s research group at Maastricht University. The general aim of this group is the development and application of imaging mass spectrometry techniques in life sciences research and a specific goal is the development of a multi-scale approach to investigate biological models and clinical samples from…
From the end of 2019 to March 2020, the University Fund Limburg/SWOL and Pim Martens, Professor of Sustainable Development, held a crowdfunding campaign, officially called “Give to sick children” to raise €12,500. With an amount of €11,525, 92% of this goal has been achieved and we are very pleased about that. What happened in the…