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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 Arbeidsbemiddeling).

On 9 December 2016, leading politicians, scholars and interested parties followed the invitation of the municipality of Maastricht to attend the 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty.

Article in news paper Trouw about intercountry adoption by Lies Wesseling.

Andrea Finesso, a second-year Italian student of European Studies, is the winner of the essay competition initiated by the Dutch House of Representatives and Senate to mark the Dutch EU Presidency.

In the annual ‘Best Studies’ publication by the weekly magazine Elsevier, the bachelor's programme European studies and the master's programme Media Culture were both ranked number 1. The ‘Best Studies’ survey is based on evaluations by students in the National Student Survey.

The complete list of results can be found on the Elsevier website.

On 23 September 2016 professor Maarten Vink, Co-Director of MACIMIDE and a member of the ITEM Academic Office, addressed the Committee of the Regions of the European Union during the 10th Meeting of CIVEX in Oviedo, Spain.

Roermond cemetery reflected the social relationships in the living city (PhD conferral Maurice Heemels).

The professors fund supports young excellent researchers at the beginning of their academic career UM wide.

Journalist, columnist and writer H.J.A. (Henk) Hofland has passed away at the age of 88. In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from Maastricht University

Christophe van Eecke has been awarded one of the five Research Prizes from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for his PhD dissertation titled ‘Pandaemonium: Ken Russell’s Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance’.