Cross-border mobility, European identity and participation among European adolescents and young adults

European biobanks forge cross-border ties.

A n unprecedented push to coordinate biobanks in Europe is moving closer to completion, a project trumpeted as enabling researchers to discover cancer treatments more quickly by harnessing data from millions of biological samples. The Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) wrapped up its 3-year preparatory phase in January, funded by a € 5 million grant from the E...

International Issues: Cross-border mobility of junior neurologists within and to the European Union.

OBJECTIVE To assess the general interest in and motivation for cross-border mobility among residents and junior neurologists from member states of the European Union and neighboring countries. METHODS Questionnaire-based paper survey among 118 participants of a neurology course. RESULTS Ninety-seven (82%) participants returned the survey. Most of them had at one point considered relocating ...

Information Sharing and Cross-border Entry in European Banking

Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it has incomplete information about potential new clients. Such asymmetries are reduced by credit registers, which distribute financial data on bank clients. We investigate the interaction of credit registers and bank entry modes (in form of branching and M&A) by using a new set o...

Changes in European cross-border cancer research and treatment.

I rish TV newscaster Tommie Gorman was working as a European correspondent based in Belgium when he became ill in 1994. He was diagnosed with carcinoid tumors, a rare cancer with an incidence of approximately 1 in 100,000. Initially treated in Belgium, Gorman began to investigate other European treatment programs. Kjell Öberg, M.D., Ph.D., of Uppsala University Hospital’s Endocrine Unit in Swed...

Information - Sharing and Cross - Border Entry in European