Borderless Dual Career

The institutional Dual Career Services in youRegion offers family friendly assistance and supports the (highly) qualified partners of new employees in finding a job (full section on this website) and provides practical help with settling into new surroundings. Below, find some hints on living and working across the borders of your Euregion with children.

By networking, offering workshops, seminars and social events we try to interest companies and organizations in the region for partners of international staff. The Dual Career Services are offered free of charge, aims to help the Dual Career Partners and is initiated to retain your talents in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine.

RWTH University


Welcome Center and Dual Career

Welcome!


Welcome center RWTH provides general information and deliberate advice for international researchers. For personal advice, find the RWTH Dual Career Service.

Website

Maastricht Region


Advice from Expat Centre and University

Family friendlyness


Find support for Dual Careers by Expat Centre Maastricht and Natasja Reslow (family friendly university Maastricht).

Advice

Hasselt University


Personal contacts

Dual Career


Leen Lambrechts is contactable for questions with a direct relation to the University of Hasselt. For KU Leuven (including its UC Leuven-Limburg), Natalie De Filette is contactable for relevant questions.

Contact


All events


"So
when you first arrive in a new country you are filled with expectations
and want your life to be all rainbows, sprinkles, and unicorns...

[...] but right now I am going to tell you the 3 things that shocked me the most
when I moved. It may not be big, life-changing things, but I hope they
will give you a good laugh or two!" [...]

Marta from Spain, living across the Euregion
Journalist

Marta´s full blog posts


With events and dedicated information, the spouse networks supports you with making this place your region and to benefit from a maximum of possibilities across borders.

For living, working and having a partner across the border, the Expatcentres, Newcomerservices and Dual Career advice joined forces and provide dedicated events. For all questions concerning cross-border commuting for one partner or the other, the GrensInfoPunkte provide information and free consultations.


All events

Euregional opportunities


Especially for partners, the diversity of euregional jobs and languages can open up unique windows of opportunity, such as in Claire's case below. For information on possible cross-border commuting, find info in the respective section.

“I followed my boyfriend here and then as soon
as I arrived, I realized…problem, I don’t speak
Dutch. So, what I’m going to do because I’m a
teacher, I’m going to go to Liege, to Belgium,
because I knew this was a French-speaking
area and that was my first language.”

Claire from Canada
Living in Maastricht

Of course, there is several groups of partners that organise themselves, such as the facebook group Aachen international spouses and the well established International Women´s group in Maastricht and the new initiative of a (facebook-based) cross-border, youRegion spouse network. Of course, find our information sections on multilingual opportunities, tips and info on finding a job and pursueing an academic career, possibly by cross-border commuting.

Education & personal development




Except for opportunities at the (partly free) universities, the "Volkshochschulen" provide interesting opportunities for self-development, from language learning, programming to cultural excursions. The prices for vary but rarely exceed 50-200€/semester with weekly courses.

Find the courses in the topic that interests you – with radius search. Also note in Germany, denominational institutions such as Caritas and Diakonie play a large (and largely secular) role in providing multilingual services for and by newcomers.

Exploration


If you want to go discover the euregion on your own or with your family, find a great pool with material on various topics, particularly (but not only) for smaller members of your family. Also find our section on living with children.

 

explore in 3 languages


and a massive variety with free downloads of all topics from the multilingual educative book on the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (DE / NL / FR).
Euregio Vis-a-Vis