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New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: L'apprentissage transfrontalier dans la Grande Région. Dispositifs et pratiques, à l'épreuve de l'expérience
In the Greater Region, the intensity of cross-border mobility and sectoral tensions in the labour market place professional training at the heart of skills issues. Cross-border professional training is a strategic lever for the integration of young people and regional competitiveness, but it remains organised by heterogeneous national frameworks.
A comparative analysis of the…
Interview: The LABOR SwissLux Research Group
The 12th UniGR-CBS Greater Region Forum is once again being organised this year in collaboration with the research group "LABOR SwissLux – Labour Across Borders". The group brings together researchers from Luxembourg and Switzerland and analyses the dynamics of the approximately 640,000 cross-border workers employed in these two countries.
On this occasion, the UniGR-CBS spoke with…
12th Greater Region Forum: Qualifications in a cross-border context: shortages, recognition and co-construction
July 9, 2026 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM | University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, MSH, Black Box
Today's labour markets are marked by multiple tensions. Many sectors are facing labour shortages, a situation likely to intensify due to demographic imbalances.
The 12th UniGR-CBS Greater Region Forum will address the question of qualifications, particularly in cross-border regions. The…
Review: UniGR-CBS Workshop on NNLT Mapping in the Greater Region
On May 18, 2026, a UniGR-CBS workshop on mapping and territorial monitoring in the context of No Net Land Take (NNLT) in the Greater Region was held at the University of Luxembourg. The hybrid event brought together representatives from research, public administration, GIS services, and practice.
The workshop built on the work of the first NNLT symposium, which took place in June 2023.…
Call for Contributions – Relational Borders and (Cross-) Border Relations
This UniGR-CBS Border Seminar, taking place on 25-26 June 2026 at Saarland University, invites contributions that explore relational borders and (cross-) border relations as perspectives for rethinking borders beyond static, territorial, or purely institutional frameworks.
We welcome contributions from Border Studies, the Humanities, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Bordering ist plural. Warum Grenzforschende häufig aneinander vorbeireden
This working paper engages with the established use of the concept of bordering in Border Studies and argues that it is often characterised by an insufficient explicit articulation of the underlying processual understandings of borders.
Against this background, the paper proposes a heuristic that distinguishes between two ideal-typical approaches to bordering processes: an outward-…
UniGR-CBS Workshop on NNLT Mapping in the Greater Region
On May 18, a cross-border workshop will be held at the University of Luxembourg and online via Webex, focusing on the challenges of mapping and territorial monitoring in the context of No Net Land Take (NNLT) in the Greater Region.
Date and time: May 18, 2026 | Welcome from 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., followed by the workshop from 2:00 p.m. to…
Territorial dynamics in the Greater Region: A conversation with Oleksiy Kiryukhin
Oleksiy Kiryukhin, formerly Head of the Ukrainian-Francophone Academic Centre at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, returned to the Greater Region as UniGR-CBS Fellow at Saarland University (November–December 2025). Building on his previous collaboration with the Université de Liège in 2021 with Quentin Michel and Sylvain Marbehant, as well as his subsequent…