ITEM 5-year anniversary

ITEM event

 

Tentative programme

13:30 Reception with coffee, tea and vlaai
14:00 Word of welcome – Prof. Hildegard Schneider (Board ITEM)
14:05

Panel session – A look back on 5 years of ITEM

Prof. Anouk Bollen (ITEM Director)
Prof. Hildegard Schneider (ITEM Board)
Prof. Huub Spoormans (Political scientist and emeritus professor of Law, Open Universiteit)
Dhr. Peter van der Hijden (Lawyer and former employee of the European Commission)
Prof. Herwig Verschueren (professor of International and European Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Antwerp)
Nathalie Verschelde (Deputy Head of Unit Interreg, Cross-Border Cooperation, Internal Borders, DG Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission)

14:45 Regional Minister van den Akker (Province of Limburg)
14:50 ITEM research, featured projects
15:15

Closing speech: 'Looking ahead: knowledge, connection, cooperation'
Prof. Anouk Bollen (ITEM director, Maastricht University)

15:30 Walking together to the Preuvenemint (Vrijthof Maastricht)
16:00 – 19:00 Let ITEM treat you to cross-border culinary delights at the Preuvenemint at the Vrijthof in Maastricht

 

ATTENDANCE IS BY INVITATION ONLY

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