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  • Het Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM is per februari 2017 op zoek naar versterking van haar team in de vorm van:  Stagiaire communicatie; Stagiaire 'Event organizer ITEM'; Stagiaire (1.0 fte) (Monitoring Service Grensoverschrijdende...

  • Nilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "walking meeting" -- and let ideas flow while you walk and talk.

  • Would you like to know more about the sources that were used for this research? We have compiled an overview of the academic references for you.

  • Minderbroedersberg

    Moved (by) Education

    Last Friday, the lecture hall of the Minderbroedersberg was filled for the inaugural speech of Hans Savelberg, an extraordinary professor and Director of Education in Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University, who, just like EDLAB, is on a mission to improve education.

  • EDLAB’s Education That Moves You project has shared many research sources showing the disadvantage of sitting and the ways in which you could change your habits for the better. But what exactly are the straight up facts?

  • Moving your body with poor posture is taxing on your muscles and joints. Here are some tips to improve your posture!

  • At EDLAB, we have been paying a lot of attention to the consequences of sitting behaviour through our Education That Moves You project. Now, the RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) has documented the facts about Dutch sitting habits.

  • Large projects, in which it is known that later changes in management will occur, lead to greater miscalculations in the budget than situations in which such a change is not known in advance...

  • The End of Sitting installation designed by architects RAAAF together with visual artist Barbara Visser, has moved to Maastricht and can now be experienced at Maastricht University’s UNS40 at the Randwyck faculty!

  • University of Southampton’s human performance design lab in electronics and computer science has defined a model to understand well-being in the body. It developed the inbodied5, or five core processes that interact with each other: movement, eating, social engagement, cognitive engagement, and...