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  • Internships available at ITEM starting February 2017

    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...

    ITEM Stagiaires gezocht
  • ITEM’s Alexander Hoogenboom wins Ius Commune Prize

    Alexander Hoogenboom, scientific coordinator at ITEM, is the winner of the Ius Commune Prize of 2016. Alexander Hoogenboom won the 2016 Ius Commune Prize for his paper ‘In Search of a Rationale for the EU Citizenship Jurisprudence’. The prize was awarded at the 15th Ius Commune Conference on 24...

  • Het migratiebeleid staat kansen in de weg in de grensregio’s

    Migratierecht en -beleid gaan veelal uit van een eenheid: verblijf en ‘bezigheid’ — werk, studie/stage, onderzoek, et cetera — in één land. Maar diezelfde eenheid levert problemen op in de grensstreken. Niet zozeer voor EU-burgers, die het ‘recht op vrij verkeer’ hebben, maar wel voor zogenoemde...

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  • TEDxMaastricht talks by UM staff

    During the last edition of TEDxMaastricht, which took place on 17 October 2016, three UM staff members gave an inspiring TED talk within the theme ‘A matter of perspective’. 

    TEDx Maastricht talks by UM staff
  • Preventing diabetes

    On this day exactly 125 years ago, physician Sir Fredrick Grant Banting was born. Together with Charles Best and John Macleod, Banting discovered that insulin could be used to treat diabetes.

    World diabetes day
  • ITEM starts feasibility study ‘cross-border professional recognition card’.

    One of the obstacles is the recognition of professional qualifications. Therefore, ITEM is announcing its intention to carry out a feasibility study about creating a “cross-border professional recognition card”.  The final “cross-border professional recognition card” would be a tool developed to...

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  • ITEM publishes effects for border regions in first cross-border impact assessment

    The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM, established in 2015, has the important objective to identify the effects of laws and regulations for border regions. Therefore ITEM launched its Cross-border impact assessment in 2016. The results of this...

    Grenseffectenrapportage samenvatting Vera van Vliet
  • Professor René de Groot to retire

    After 35 years in Maastricht and 42 years in the world of academia, René de Groot officially retired on 14 October 2016. How does this international expert on nationality law look back on his career? And what does the future hold?

    René de Groot retires
  • Maarten Vink addresses Committee of the Regions of the EU

    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.

    Maarten Vink © Irma Collín featured image