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Call for applications – The UniGR-CBS Guest Professorship Border Studies 2021
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies launches its call for applications for the 2021 edition of the UniGR-CBS Guest Professorship in Border Studies.
This chair supports the short-term mobility (2 months) of professors or post-doctoral researchers to the six UniGR partner universities (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, University of Liège, Université de…
New book release: Realities, perceptions and representations of borders. The cross-border area of the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux
How are borders experienced? In the Greater Saar-Lor-Lux Region, at the crossroads of four countries and three languages, strong relationships bring people together. This book takes a decentred and cross-border approach, crossing scientific disciplines and national perspectives.
The new book publication is a joint project of UniGR-CBS members of the six…
Review from the second session of the MOOC "Spatial analysis beyond borders"
The second session of the MOOC "Spatial analysis beyond borders" began on February 3rd and was extended until April 19th 2020 because of the pandemic. It was a great success: more than 3100 participants were gathered. They came from several countries: mainly from France, one third were from several African countries, especially North Africa, but also Canada and …
6th Greater Region Forum – Current challenges of spatial development in the Greater Region
In a cross-border context, the large dynamics of the economic, ecological and social conditions create a special need for coordination with regard to spatial development. The forum focuses on the cross-border future vision of the Greater Region which was adopted at the 6th Conference of the regional Ministers responsible for spatial planning.
21st October…
The working group Bordertextures at the 6th KWG annual conference
The working group Bordertextures will organize the panel "B/Ordering processes as border textures: empirical contributions of cultural border studies" at the 6th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG). In their talks, the panelists will present their practice on the border textures approach with the aim of grasping and analyzing b/…
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies receives additional European funding
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies network has received additional funding of around 570,000 EUR for the project “European Center for Competence and Knowledge in Border Studies”. With the support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) the border scholars from the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) will start a further project phase of cross-border scientific cooperation from…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: "Doing as over there?" Attempt to transpose a Swiss public utility housing model into the French context
Cross-border regions are often laboratories for the circulation of ideas and practices. The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper examines the question whether in the Greater Geneva region it is possible to transpose the cooperative housing model, fairly developed in Switzerland into the French context, where this type of housing is less common.
Using the example of Viry, which is a French…
5th Greater Region Forum – Climate change and sustainability in the Greater Region
Climate change and its consequences represent one of the major cross-border challenges of our time. In recent years, the local and regional levels of action in particular have emerged as central territorial units for managing the consequences of climate change. By looking at the municipal level and its strategies for action, we would like to encourage a productive cross-border dialogue on…