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ITEM continues: Advancing cross-border cooperation and impact
Over the past ten years, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) has firmly placed…
News
8 July 2025
Belgian honor for Prof. dr. Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn
On Thursday evening, July 3, 2025, Prof. Dr. Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn received a Belgian medal from the outgoing Belgian ambassador to…
News
4 July 2025
Progress on ITEM Case: draft legislation on childcare allowance for PhD students in the works
Partly based on the news item from SOFI expertise. The ITEM expertise centre at Maastricht University, together with SOFI expertise…
News
Border effects, Labour market and economy, Pension, fiscal and social security
4 July 2025
40 years of Schengen – presentation on the border regional perspective
On 12 and 13 June 2025, the meeting of the Benelux Parliament was held in Luxembourg. The plenary session was…
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Border effects, Euregional governance and collaboration
21 June 2025
EU adopts the BRIDGEforEU Regulation: A new governance mechanism to tackle border obstacles
On 19 May 2025, the European Union officially published the BRIDGEforEU Regulation 2025/925 (Border Regions’ Instrument for Development and Growth).…
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Euregional governance and collaboration
22 May 2025
Step by step: towards a better regulatory framework for the teleworking cross-border worker
There is a Recommendation from the Benelux Parliament, a Protocol with Belgium and a Treaty amendment on the way with…
Blogs
Border effects, Euregional governance and collaboration, Labour market and economy
17 April 2025
Interview with ITEM researchers: Free movement for workers halts at the Flemish-Dutch border
Working across the Flemish-Dutch border remains difficult due to legal hurdles and sectoral mismatches, leaving the economic potential of cross-border…
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Labour market and economy, Pension, fiscal and social security
22 January 2025
LOOKING BACK: ITEM ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024
Without border regions no Europe, without Interreg no European cohesion ITEM presented the usefulness of instruments, territorial and cross-border impact…
News
1 January 2025
ITEM Cross-border Impact Assessment 2024 published
The Cross-border Impact Assessment 2024, compiled by the interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross…
Cross-border assessment dossiers
Border effects, Euregional governance and collaboration, Security
22 November 2024
ITEM’s 10-year anniversary; presentation Collectors’ ITEM at Preuvenemint meeting 2024
The anniversary was celebrated during the Preuvenemint Meeting 2024, which took place in the stately Feestzaal of the UM Faculty…
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Euregional governance and collaboration
19 November 2024