Internationalise labour market Zuid-Limburg
Welcome to Maastricht Region
Zuid-Limburg offers many career opportunities on which we want to raise awarness in the international community. Especially in the border area with Belgium and Germany. For this purpose, we are deploying the online platform Welcome to Maastricht Region.
This website has a work portal. In addition, this project focuses on building international awareness of our region. If people get to know Zuid-Limburg, they will more easily look for work here. This applies to frontier workers as well as people from countries further away and to those with theoretical or practical training.
In addition, we try to interest prospective talent already living in our region in working in Zuid-Limburg at a young age. We show pupils in primary and secondary education and vocational and academic education what career opportunities are available in our region. The aim is to retain talent for our euregional labour market and prevent them leaving for regions such as Eindhoven or the Randstad. All activities are therefore aimed at attracting, binding and captivating talent.
Short-term plans are:
- To further develop the website welcometomaastrichtregion.com into a euregional career portal with a work portal featuring English-language job vacancies for higher-educated knowledge workers. This portal will be linked to the website: welcometonl.nl.
- The website is filled with relevant information for employers, internationals, border workers and students. That is information on, for example, living, working and life in the Zuid-Limburg border region.
- Offering workshops involving various partners. In doing so, we focus on increased customisation and visibility in the region.
- Building a database with profiles of talents. We want to actively track talents in cooperation with knowledge institutions, industry and Brightlands.
When
Phased development. Ready in the first quarter of 2025.
Important partners
Expat Centre Maastricht Region, Service Grensarbeid Maastricht and Kerkrade, GrensInfoPunten, Maastricht and Aachen-Eurode, Brightlands, Municipality of Maastricht, Municipality of Sittard-Geleen and Municipality of Heerlen.