Archive for June 2019
Managing cultural heritage new style: Project HERILAND
HERILAND is a pan-European research and training network, officially launched on April 1, 2019. Its major aim is to empower a new generation of cultural heritage managers. Universities in the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, Italy and Israel join forces to reach this ambitious goal. Within VU, three faculties are involved: The Faculty of Humanities is…
Read MoreLies, damned lies, and statistics: Looking at re-exports
An increasing part of international trade involves re-exports. In the Netherlands, e.g., re-exports constituted 54 per cent of total exports of goods in 2015. Re-exports are products imported into and exported from an intermediary country. Activities in the intermediary country may involve, e.g. repackaging or adding user manuals in the language of the destination country,…
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