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More and more Dutch people are struggling with debt and poverty. Genuine change calls for a systematic approach, which is where the ELSA Lab for Poverty and Debt comes in.

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.

Closed borders and other restrictions on the free movement of people do not reduce migration in the long term, nor do open borders necessarily lead to mass migration.

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 speed...

The aim of the day is to promote an encounter between the European Commission, AEBR and all projects within the B-Solutions Project, a 2-year long initiative aimed at tackling legal and administrative border obstacles along EU internal borders. UM's Expertise Centre ITEM is one of the participants.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website . The aim of the new website is to serve as a platform for information about our cross-border activities, providing you an easy way of learning all about our ongoing research projects, areas of expertise, publications, training activities and...

Content warning: This episode contains the mention of eating disorders.

In this new episode, we invited Dr. Jessica Alleva who is a Body Image researcher from Canada. Jessica is an assistant Prof. at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for...

Expertise Centre ITEM investigates a number of aspects in relation to cross-border work. One obstacle that cross-border workers face involves obtaining a 'DigiD', the Dutch digital identification system. Regarding this obstacle proceedings were initiated in recent months, which have led to a ruling of...

The Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM will prepare the substantive fundamentals for an online cross-border pension tracking service by which citizens of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium have a mutual overview of their foreign built up pensions...