The Organoid Factory
BY PETER PETERS
@ VOL 37
ON JAN 23, 2019
The nanobiologist and university professor Peter Peters tells us about a completely new method to cure cancer. He and his team at Maastricht University will make massively tiny organs (or organoids) from healthy and malignant cells and test them on different drugs to find the best drug cocktail for the cancer patient.
The Power of Choice
BY MARY GICHUHI
@ VOL 37
ON JAN 23, 2019
Mary Wanjiku Gichuhi who is an international speaker. She shares her experience, lessons learnt as well as practical tools that she has used herself to overcome adversities that will for sure help anyone going through tough times.
How I Conquered Glossophobia
BY STELLA THOMASSEN
@ VOL 37
ON JAN 23, 2019
Have you ever heard of glossophobia? Our team member Stella Thomassen used to suffer from glossophobia - until something made her take all actions to overcome this fear. In this presentation, Stella tells us how she conquered her fear of public speaking.
How Compassion Healed Me
BY OANA CIPCA
@ VOL 37
ON JAN 23, 2019
Losing her first daughter shortly before she was born was a life-changing event for Oana Cipca. Now she wants to inspire other people to reach their goals by feeling compassion for others in need and tell them how that helped to heal the traumas in her own life.
Oana Cipca runs a successful foundation helping now almost 100 orphans in Romania to discover and develop their own talents, aiming to give them a purpose in life that helps them choose the positive path in their lives and become World’s future leaders, doctors, researchers, and much more.
T-Rex versus Modern Society
BY RENAAT TOPPETS
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Renaat Toppets speaks about the T-Rex that we frequently see in front of us and how a personal story made him realize that you never know the whole story behind what happens.
Do you feel at home in Maastricht?
BY JULIA REINOLD
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Why do highly-skilled individuals come to the Maastricht region? Why do they want to stay? Or why do they plan to leave again? And how can we make the Euregio Meuse-Rhine more attractive for them?
These are some of the questions that Julia Reinold tackles in her PhD research at Maastricht University. She also is a true child of this region herself: Julia grew up in the German part of the Euroregion, studied at Maastricht University and is now working there as a researcher.
A World Apart: My Experience in Ghana
BY MARIA TOMAI
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Maria Tomai just came back from a six-week stay in Ghana where she researched the topic of solid waste management. Apart from her research, there were many insights that she gained during her stay about the value of personal relationships.
Here's how Manchester United can fight malaria... for free!
BY BART KNOLS
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Everybody who has been to a malaria region has slept under a mosquito net. Mosquito nets have saved more than six million lives over the past 15 years. However with the decrease in cases of malaria, people have started finding other uses for their mosquito nets; fishing, for example. Bart Knols has been working on ways to reverse this trend by making mosquito bed nets more attractive. This is where Manchester United comes in.
Food Connects
BY LEON AARTS
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
For Leon Aarts, food has been a common thread throughout his life as he journeyed from chef to restaurant owner to establishing two charities related to food. The founder of #FillTheCup, #Compassion and#CalaisKitchens speaks about the power of food in connecting people. Compassion is truly delicious.
Peace in heart beats pace in life!
BY MAURICE SOPACUA
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Maurice Sopacua is a medical doctor who believes in the importance of taking challenges and risks - and following your heart. From an early age, he became interested in human mobility.
Integration through Information
BY ELIZAMAREE POWER
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
ElizaMaree Power, Communications specialist and PK team member shares a personal story about how English News - RTV Maastricht was conceived and developed and now helps with the integration of internationals in Maastricht.
Breaking Silos, Nudging Communities: the SITE4Society adventure
BY SHYAMA RAMANI
@ VOL 36
ON JUN 19, 2018
Shyama Ramani is Professorial Fellow at the research institute United Nations University-MERIT in Maastricht. Her research focuses on the relationships between technology, innovation and their governance for inclusive development. She is also the founder of two non-profit research units ‘Association Un Ami’ and ‘Friend in Need Trust’, in France and India.
Shyama experiences three kinds of knowledge divides today: that between students and scholars in good institutions and the not-so-good ones, that between academics and society and that between truth and fabricated truth.
In her PechaKucha presentation she shows how academics can contribute to societal welfare just through sharing the results of their research in an understandable way.