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ITEM congratulates Maastricht University researchers and members of ITEM’s scientific board who recently received grants for their research projects.

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 in the other State. As of  June 1st, Sander Kramer started as a researcher at ITEM with this research.

The professors fund supports young excellent researchers at the beginning of their academic career UM wide.

Publication factsheet en expert meeting marital captivity (ATRIA news). 

On Wednesday July 20^th, in the presence of the Mayor of Maastricht, Annemarie Penn-te Strake, the Governor of the Province of Limburg, Theo Bovens and the dean of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, professor Hildegard Schneider, the first international center in Centre Ceramique will be opened.

More than a quarter of people survive cardiac arrest when civilian emergency care providers are mobilised within six minutes via a text message (MUMC+ News). 

Certain types of basal cell carcinoma can be treated using anti-inflammatory ointment instead of surgical intervention (MUMC+ Nieuws).

There's a good chance that African cyclists will soon dominate the Tour de France. The success of Eritrean cyclist Daniel Teklehaimanot in the 2015 Tour may be considered a harbinger of things to come. Researchers at Maastricht University recently published an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine with their assessment of four cyclists in Team Rwanada.

This Annual Report highlights the main activities of the Centre that were undertaken in the year 2015.