Overview Research Centres
In addition to its four research programmes, FASoS is home to several research centres which focus on key topics complementing the research programmes:
- The Maastricht Centre for European Governance core objective is to further develop the interaction between different faculties at UM in teaching and research in European integration.
- The Centre for Urban and Euregional Studies develops and promotes the research thema of urban and regional development.
- The Centre for Gender and Diversity focus on the acquisition of externally funded research projects within the field of gender and diversity studies.
- Social Historical Centre Limburg (associated) provides a research infrastructure for comparative regional history.
- The Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) is an inter-faculty research platform and aims to foster research collaboration on issues of cross-border mobility, citizenship, transnationalism, migration and development and to bridge between the UM research community and the wider academic and professional world.
- The Maastricht Centre for Arts, Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) is an expertise centre uniting researchers from different FASoS research programmes, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics and the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), collaborating with the Province of Limburg and various cultural institutions in the Euregion.
In the course of 2015 two additional interfaculty centres are to be established:
- The Maastricht Centre for Research on Europe. This centre will link three existing institutes: the Maastricht Centre for European Governance, the Maastricht Centre for European Law, and the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht. It aims at strengthening the existing ties between the Faculty of Law and FASoS in the study of European integration, with a view to facilitating new and innovative research in specific topical areas.
- The Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) is developed by the interfaculty Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE), in cooperation with the province of Limburg and the municipality of Maastricht as part of the “Limburg Knowledge/Axis” cooperation. The goal of ITEM is to increase cross-border mobility and to analyse the functioning of a regional labour market in the Maas-Rhine Euregion. Read about ITEM in the press release Province of Limburg.