Research institutes and themes

Interdisciplinary research venue creating synergies & stimulating joint projects & events in the fields of European law, governance, & their respective history.

Gender as a symbolic cultural system. Analysis into the impact of gender on social inclusion & exclusion at the intersection of other categories of differentiation, such as age, religion, sexuality, disability, ethnicity, & nationality.

Providing a research structure for comparative regional history by giving access to historical sources, maintenance of a library collection, developing research, publication of a yearbook & a dissertation series.

The overarching research institute for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Conducts interdisciplinary research within the scope of cross-border mobility & cooperation issues wherein special attention is paid to practical solutions for these issues.

Brings together economic, legal, historical, philosophical & practical expertise in response to the increasingly multi-layered & complex challenges facing the fields of arts & heritage today.

Combines various research lines in order to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics & consequences of trans-national migration & mobility in a European & global context.

Studying and shaping the dynamics behind changing classical music practices and their societal contexts in a collaboration between UM, Zuyd and philharmonie zuidnederland.