In the UM news of 20 March we informed you about the discontinuation of the Surviving Dependants Act (Anw) survivor benefit with effect from 1 May 2018. All universities, including Maastricht University, have reached an agreement with insurance company elipsLife
.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is allocating more than 17 million euros in subsidies for the further development of a Dutch network for electron microscopy (NEMI). Almost 5 million of this will go to UM. From Maastricht, the M4I institute of university professors Ron...
Recognition procedures prevent Dutch child care workers from being able to work abroad. This was revealed after several reports by the SGA, leading to a pilot procedure set up by Expertise Centre ITEM / SGA, among others, that will examine whether partial recognition as Erzieher could be enabled for...
On the occasion of his retirement from Maastricht University, on 11 April 2018 the Maastricht University Medallion of Honour was awarded to Jos Kievits, director of Development and Alumni Relations and director of the University Fund Limburg/SWOL.
Claire Huijnen’s PhD research into social robots in healthcare features in a documentary on Dutch TV tonight. Thanks to her help, social robot KASPAR can help autistic children. In 'Scenarios for a normal life' (part of Autism Week on NPO2) you can see how eight-year-old Jonathan from Limburg...
Expertise Centre ITEM is glad to have become a member of TEIN (Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network), the network for cross-border institutes and universities. With its membership, they will strengthen its cooperation with other institutes and universities in border regions.
Matthijs Huizing has joined the team of Expertise Centre ITEM. With his position as ‘advisor external affairs’, he will represent the expertise centre in order to form a link between science, politics and policy.
Various surveys (the national survey conducted by the Dutch Trade Union Confederation (FNV) and the Scientist's Union (VAWO) in 2017 and the UM work perception survey from 2015) have shown that employees of universities experience a high to extremely high work load at work. Agreements about how to...
Working across the border as a specialised IC nurse is not a matter of course. For this reason, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations has requested Expertise Centre ITEM to study the cross-border mobility of specialised Intensive Care (IC) nurses. On Wednesday 7 March, ITEM presented...
Expertise Centre ITEM announces the dossier selection for research in their annual Cross-border impact assessment. The final selection was made based on the stakeholder consultation. In the upcoming period, a team of ITEM researchers and experts will direct their attention to the dossiers.
