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5th Greater Region Forum “Current challenges of spatial development in the Greater Region” - cancelled
Cancelled due to the current spread of the corona virus SARS-CoV2
The 5th Greater Region Forum “Current challenges of spatial development in the Greater Region” will take place on Marc 19, 2020. Registration is now open here.
The forum focuses on current spatial development trends in the Greater Region and the challenges they pose. In a discursive exchange between science,…
5th Seminar UniGR-CBS - "Spatial Planning Cultures in Border Areas - Challenges and Prospects" 27 & 28 February 2020
The next UniGR-CBS seminar "Spatial Planning Cultures in Border Areas - Challenges and Prospects" will take place the 27th and 28th February 2020 in Kaiserslautern.
Spatial planning generally stops at national and administrative borders. However, instruments such as financial or legal incentives from the European Union promote cooperation across national borders. Currently, in some…
Second session of the MOOC “Spatial Analysis Beyond Borders”
The second edition of the "Spatial analysis beyond borders" MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is online from 3rd February to 12 March 2020. Registration is now open here.
Throughout the five weeks of the course, participants can exchange with each other and the moderators on the videos and resources used for the MOOC. In particular, a common thread exercise, will provide an opportunity…
Migration and Borders: The report of the 3rd Forum Greater Region is online
The theme of the "Greater Region Forum" held on 14 March 2019 was "Migration and borders: between regulation and integration". At the third edition of the Forum organised this time under the scientific direction of Birte Nienaber (University of Luxembourg) and Piero Galloro (University of Lorraine), historic and contemporary migratory movements in the Greater Region were presented and…
International Workshop “Borders as Border Complexities”
Over 40 border researchers accepted the UniGR Center for Border Studies' invitation to come to the University of Luxembourg for an international workshop. The event held on December 5th and 6th, 2019 was dedicated to an emerging development in border research and was a prelude to the two-year workshop series entitled “Border Complexities.”
The basis for the research is the finding that…
Call for Papers: UniGR-CBS thematic issue Borders in Perspective
The next issue of Borders in Perspective will be entitled “The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis” and is the outcome of the research collaboration established between Saarland University, Germany (Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner) and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine (Dr. Tetyana Ostapchuk) within the framework of the DAAD…
New book release: Border Experiences in Europe
For the last decade, borders in Europe have been back on the political agenda. Border research has reacted to that and is forging new ways of thinking and analysing borders. The new book release is following up this development and promotes a perspective that focuses on day-to-day reality and highlights the everyday experience of borders. Six authors from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies…
Successful kick-off: The first forum Greater Region of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies
On 7 June 2018, the first “Greater Region” forum on the subject of “Cross-border employee mobility as a resource for the Greater Region” took place at the House of the Greater Region (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) as part of the Interreg VA Greater Region project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” with the participation of the Minister of Labor and Employment of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,…