Prof Dr Anouk Bollen (A.H.H.)

Highlighted cross-border PhD projects & publications:

• Member of PhD Assessment committee of Hans Wevers, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, PhD defense 5 September 2025 

  Dissertation: Social Entrepreneurship and the EU Cohesion Policy – Exploring Complementarity in Border Regions

• Promotor of Sander Kramer LL.M, Maastricht University, PhD defense 8 December 2023 

  Dissertation: Effective Cross-Border Pension Information in the Face of Multi-Level Legal Systems

• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2021). Kansengelijkheid vanuit grensoverschrijdend perspectief. In Gebundeld Perspectief. Decentraal bestuur nader geduid : Essaybundel Staat van het Bestuur 2020 (pp. 49-50), Ministerie van BZK
• Unfried, M., Kortese, L., & Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2020). The bottom-up approach: Experiences with the impact assessment of EU and national legislation in the German, Dutch and Belgian cross-border regions. In E. Medeiros (Ed.), Territorial Impact Assessment, Advances in Spatial Science (pp. 103-121), Springer International Publishing

• Promotor of Bastiaan Didden LL.M, Maastricht University, PhD defense 8 November 2019 

  Dissertation:  Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension

Highlighted cross-border events:

• IPO Annual Conference, panel session I: Discover the Power of Regional Collaboration: Strengthen the Future of the Netherlands as a whole! & panel session II: BRIDGEforEU: From regulation to enhanced cooperation in border regions (moderator), 30 September 2025, Brussels, Belgium
• Benelux/ITEM workshop: ‘One year of the Benelux Police Treaty: practice and future prospects’, co-chair / organiser, 8 October 2024 (European Week of the Cities & Regions), Brussels, Belgium
• Conference "Working across borders: Towards a fair 360-degree labour market in the Dutch-German border region," organised by the German Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, and the European Labour Authority, speaker, 17 June 2024, Osnabrück (Lower Saxony), Germany
• HNP/ITEM Event - Sustainable cross-border infrastructure and mobility in North-West Europe's Delta corridor, organiser / speaker, 27 September 2023, Brussels, Belgium
• HNP/ITEM Event - How can the return of national borders be prevented in a future pandemic and crisis situation? Multilevel governance in a practical way, Organiser / speaker, 13 October 2021 (European Week of the Cities & Regions), Brussels, Belgium

• Spaces crossing borders, The first Central and Eastern European Planning Conference - The research experiences of ITEM regarding territorial impact assessment, speaker, 23-24 May 2018, CESCI, Budapest, Hungary

   

Highlighted ITEM Annual conferences:

• From Green Deal to Industrial Deal – Decline ‘Border Blindness’ & Experience the living labs of European Integration – co-host Governor Carina van Cauter, Province East-Flanders & Flemish Government – Ghent (organizer / host, 2024)
• Infrastructure and mobility: strong connections with neighbouring countries for a sustainable and liveable society across the border – co-host King’s Commissioner in the province of Zuid-Holland Jaap Smit, Province Zuid-Holland – The Hague (organizer / host, 2023)
• The future of border regions in Europe: Impact on safety, health and energy supply for border residents – co-host King’s Commissioner in the province of Groningen René Paas, Province Groningen – Groningen (organizer / host, 2022)
• Strengthening border regions – more than ever – co-host: King’s Commissioner in the province Zeeland Han Polman, Province Zeeland – Middelburg (organizer / host, 2021)
• Cross-border cooperation: Future Challenges – co-host: Thomas Wobben, European Committee of the Regions – Brussels (organizer / host, 2018)

• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (Ed.) (2022). Pensioen en de belangrijkste toekomstvoorzieningen: Inkomstenbelasting/Loonbelasting. (13 ed.) Sdu Uitgevers. Fiscale Geschriften No. 27

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2021). Kansengelijkheid vanuit grensoverschrijdend perspectief. In Gebundeld Perspectief. Decentraal bestuur nader geduid : Essaybundel Staat van het Bestuur 2020 (pp. 49-50). Ministerie van BZK.

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• Unfried, M., Kortese, L., & Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2020). The bottom-up approach: Experiences with the impact assessment of EU and national legislation in the German, Dutch and Belgian cross-border regions. In E. Medeiros (Ed.), Territorial Impact Assessment, Advances in Spatial Science (pp. 103-121). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54502-4_6

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2020). Pensioen en scheiden vanaf 2022: bewustwording en financiële waakzaamheid. Civiel en fiscaal tijdschrift vermogen (ftV), (5), 20-25. Article 19. https://www.estateplanningexpert.nl/nieuws/5/6388/pensioen-en-scheiden-vanaf-2022-bewustwording-en-financi%C3%ABle-waakzaamheid-(ftv-202019).html

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H., Didden, B., & Kramer, S. (2018). Over de grenzen kijken: pensioeninzicht en overzicht vanuit Belgisch en Duits perspectief. Tijdschrift voor Pensioenvraagstukken.

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2018). Toekomst van de Wet verevening pensioenrechten bij scheiding. Bied keuzerecht met betrekking tot bijzonder partnerpensioen. Pensioen en Praktijk, (2), 8-12. Article 2.

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H., Weerepas, M. J. G. A. M., Didden, B., & Kramer, S. (2016). The new Tax Treaty the Netherlands - Germany: Pensions. In ITEM (Ed.), ITEM Cross Border Impact Assessment 2016 (Vol. 1B, pp. 48-85). Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and mobility. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/sites/default/files/item_cross-border_impact_assessment_2016_en_2017-03-22.pdf

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H., & Weerepas, M. J. G. A. M. (2015). Enhancing worker mobility via the Mobility Directive: arrange the tax consequences for supllementary pension rights now! Ec Tax Review, 24(2015-1), 34-42.

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H., & Stevens, Y. (2012). Maurits Casteels v British Airways: Limitation of length of service with one employer in the context of the acquisition of pension rights not EU proof. European Journal of Social Law, 2012(1), 69-79.

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• Bollen-Vandenboorn, A. H. H. (2019). Pensioenakkoord maakt weg vrij voor arbeidsvormneutraal pensioenkader. Pensioen Magazine, (PM 2019/11), 21-26. Article PM 2019/11.

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