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Lecture – Counter-Europeanisation as a Security Challenge: Rebordering borderlessness
The virtual lecture of Jussi Laine focuses on the role of borders in times of counter-Europeanisation tendencies and which challenges Europe is facing.
Jussi Laine is Associate Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at University of Eastern Finland and President of the Association for Borderlands Studies. He is at University…
Lecture – Determinants of cross-border cooperation in the Polish–German borderland
The virtual lecture of Elżbieta Opiłowska focuses on the bilateral relations of the German-Polish border region and builds on the research project "Poland and Germany in the European Union – new forms and models of bilateral relations in foreign policy and cross-border cooperation".
Elżbieta Opiłowska is Associate Professor…
New project: Borderland Stories
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies is partner of the multimedia project “Borderland Stories”
Borderland Stories is a multilateral, transnational, interdisciplinary module of the Master in Border Studies, which combines ethnographic analysis and creative work in the visual arts to facilitate intercultural communication across two distinct…
New book release: Grenzerfahrungen | Expériences transfrontalières
35 years after the Schengen Agreement, controls and closures of border crossings were suddenly back on the agenda in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic in spring 2020. In which areas did cross-border coordination work and where did it go wrong, at least at the beginning? How were the critical moments of the crisis experienced by the actors? What can we learn from this…
Call for Papers – Remote work in the border region after the health crisis
During the Covid-19 pandemic, remote work became very popular and it is expected that many people will continue to make use of it after the health crisis.
The debate on "co-development" that has emerged in recent years requires a discussion of the potential (positive and negative) consequences associated with the development of remote work in the border…
BorderObs – European Border Region Studies and Borderization
Migration and populism are just a few reasons why there is talk of a return of the border. In the same way, the pandemic has revived borders and shown that borderization also take place in the Schengen area.
With this in mind, the text problematize that European border region studies continue to follow the weakened guiding idea of a Europe without borders. Instead, the text proposes…
New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper: Spatial Development in the Greater Region
The bilingual Policy paper “Action Needs for Spatial Development in the Greater Region from a Research Perspective” summarizes key findings of researchers from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies in five areas relevant to the Greater Region:
Demography and migration Transport Employment and economic development Energy landscapes Cross-border governance…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Distribution spatiale de l’emploi au Luxembourg
The European objective of decarbonisation by the year 2050 requires a supra-regional coordination of transport services.
Analysing the data of the Luxmobil 2017 survey, this Working Paper presents the main outcomes concerning the spatial distributions of employment and modal choices related to commuting of both resident and cross-border workers within the…