Partners & Networks

APG – All Pensions Group

APG administers the collective pension scheme for the government and educational sectors. For those working in these sectors, APG has the ambition of being a reliable, customer-focused, innovative and transparent partner. read more >>

Cedefop skillsnet

ROA has contributed to establishing a network on labour market forecasting across Europe, including playing a leading role in the CEDEFOP Skillsnet Network. This network brings together highly qualified researchers and other experts from across the world to present and discuss methods and outcomes of research and analysis on new and changing skill needs as well as medium to longer-term prospects of skills available in the labour market. read more >>

DESAN

DESAN Research Solutions is a specialist in collecting, processing and reporting data for market and opinion research. read more in Dutch >>

EALE – The European Association of Labour Economists

EALE aims to promote the advancement of knowledge in the field of labour economics in Europe and elsewhere. Its activities include the organisation of international conferences and workshop, the promotion of the study and application of labour economics, the formation of international groups concerned with research and teaching, and support to publications in the field of labour economics. The EALE secretariat is located at ROA. read more >>

Economics Department SBE

In conducting Education and Labour Market research, ROA cooperates closely with the Economics Department at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE), in particular with section Economics II. The section’s field of research concerns Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, International Economics and Education Economics. read more >>

ECSR – European Consortium for Sociological Research

ECSR's purpose is to promote sociological research in Europe, in particular by encouraging co-operation between research centres. Membership is open to research institutes and University Departments in all European countries. read more >>

HBO-Raad – Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences

The HBO-raad brings together all government-funded Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and focuses on strengthening their social position. read more >>

IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor

IZA is a private, independent research institute, which conducts nationally and internationally oriented labor market research. read more >>

Lower – European Low-wage Employment Research Network

The network and its related projects bring together some forty European researchers on low pay and low skills; minimum wages and employment; wage inequality and earnings mobility; intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities; gender, pay, part-time employment and skills; employment structure and quality; immigration and low pay; training and employment behaviour. read more >>

Network Social Innovation - NSI

The NSI focuses on social and organizational innovations to improve the development and use of talent and know-how and ultimately firm performance. read more >>

A+O - Arbeidsmarkt en Opleiding Metalektro

A+O aims to facilitate the functioning of the labour market in the Metalektro sector, in addition it supports education and training in this sector. read more in Dutch >>

SOEP – German Socio-Economic Panel Study

The main task of the Research Departments of the DIW Berlin SOEP is planning, carrying out, and editing the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). This wide-ranging longitudinal survey started in 1984 and currently covers about 23,000 individuals living in more than 12,000 private households. read more >>

Stichting Bedrijfsfonds Apotheken (SBA)

SBA stands for professional ism in the work of  and the development of people working  in pharmacies. The SBA works for the social partners of the branche organisation, employers (KNMP and ASKA), and worker unions (FNV Bondgenoten and CNV Publieke Zaak). read more in Dutch >>

TIY – European Research Network on Transitions in Youth

The long-term goal of the Network is to advance theoretical understanding of transitions in youth, and especially of the relationships between education/training and the labour market, through the comparative analysis of regular and longitudinal surveys of transitions. read more >>

VSNU – Association of Universities in the Netherlands

The VSNU represents the shared interests of the fourteen research universities in the Netherlands in the fields of research, education, knowledge transfer, funding, personnel policy and international affairs. read more >>