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According to sociologists Rolf van der Velden and Arie Glebbeek, education is in a deep crisis. More and more people are pursuing higher education in order to stay ahead of the rest, creating a veritable education race. Changes in education policy are not going to sufficiently turn the tide, the two...

It has long been known that in some psychiatric disorders certain parts of the brain show slight abnormalities. However, it was unclear whether these brain changes are caused by the illness itself, by medication, or by smoking. In a recent study, scientists at Maastricht University and Amsterdam UMC...

This issue was discussed on 17 February 2022 by the ITEM Expertise Centre with representatives of the specialised advisory and border information services in the cultural sector, as well as politicians and (local) authorities of the EMR. In successful cooperation with the ZZP-fabriek, the GrenzInfoPunt...

In the near future, minister Dijkgraaf will submit proposals to the Lower House to limit the intake of international students in Dutch education. Employers in Limburg are very concerned about the impact on border regions like ours. We as the joint Brightlands campuses, together with representatives of...

Factsheet available. On June 16th and 17th, 2017 the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University organised a workshop devoted to the topic of Human capital and regional development. This mini-conference was organised in collaboration with Neimed, Dutch Centre of...

Professor of nutrition and eating disorders Sandra Mulkens at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University publishes ARFID bij kinderen, jongeren en volwassenen: diagnostiek en behandeling ( ARFID in children, adolescents and adults: diagnostics and treatment) in collaboration...

Anne's extra mile in health: Training your mind for sustainable weight loss The “Eat-Lab” –officially the Research Group Eating Disorders & Obesity – which is headed by Anne, conducts different kinds of research into behaviour and psychological processes in relation to abnormal eating and obesity ( www...

On 18 September Dutch Minister Koolmees answered parliamentary questions about the possibility for pensioners abroad to pass on their proof of life via an app. This concerns a case in which ITEM, together with Advisor on Frontier Work for the MEP Jeroen Lenaers, has worked on in favour of persons...

ITEM’s Marcus Meyer and Thomas Biermeyer have won a Jean Monnet grant on the topic of cross-border mobility of companies in the EU and EEA. This project supplements a tender won by Thomas and Marcus earlier this year from ETUI for a three-year project on the same topic. The Jean Monnet grant allows to...

Imagine you live in Belgium and have been working in the Netherlands for years. But unlike your Dutch colleagues, you can’t access your pension information online. That is because you are not entitled to a DigiD, which is the identity verification service of the Dutch government. To help make life...