The Collector’s ITEM – a decade of ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessments

Celebrating 10 years of ITEM marks a significant milestone, highlighting achievements to be proud of. This commemorative collection of the past 10 years of ITEM Cross Border Impact Assessments embodies ITEM’s core values ‘knowledge – connecting – collaboration’. In this publication you will find all 51 ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessments from 2016 to 2023 in […]

No mention of border regions on EU’s political agenda  

  On 29 April 2024, the Next ITEM: European Elections and Border Regions event took place at EIPA Maastricht. During this event, ITEM experts Martin Unfried and Pim Mertens explained the findings of their ITEM Reflection: European Elections 2024 and Border Regions with regard to cross-border perspectives in European party manifestos. European Parliament candidates Karin […]

Broad Prosperity in border regions: not easy, but essential

On 27 and 28 March 2024, the ‘Limburgse tweedaagse’ (two-day event) of the National Network Broad Prosperity took place in Maastricht, organised by NEIMED, the province of Limburg and the programme coordinators of the National Network. ITEM and NEIMED jointly hosted a workshop on broad prosperity in border regions during which the importance of steering […]