Not everyone is sold on the idea of interdisciplinary research and even amongst the enthusiasts, there are various obstacles that stand in the way of researchers from different faculties/disciplines coming together to work on a project together. Studio Europa Maastricht in collaboration with Maastricht Young Academy will be organizing a series of presentations that showcase UM researchers already working together across disciplinary boundaries and promote enhanced interfaculty collaborations through a micro-hackathon (where we pair you with folks from other faculties to come up with an interesting research idea together). The topic for this first event on 8 June will be “Crisis in Europe & Beyond”, which we hope is a broad enough theme that will touch upon your research line. So come join us if you are curious about interdisciplinary research (or if you just want to meet new people)! There will be free drinks and snacks, not to mention very cool people!