Study day on the cross-border area

Rachid Belkacem of the University of Lorraine and the UniGR-Center for Border Studies organised a study day on the cross-border area in the Greater Region on 12 July 2019. The event held at the University Institute of Technology (IUT) was attended by researchers and practitioners and focused on the mobility of cross-border workers, regional development and other important subjects relating to the France-Luxembourg border. Speakers included:

• Rachid Belkacem (University of Lorraine, 2L2S)
• Grégory Hamez  (University of Lorraine - Loterr): Cross-border areas in the Greater Region: practices, representations and governance
• Hélène Yildiz and Komivi Afawubo (University of Lorraine, CEREFIGE, University of Lorraine): The retail trade in a cross-border context: border city centres. Presentation of survey results.
• Marie-France Gaunard-Anderson (University of Lorraine, Loterr): The development of towns in a cross-border context: a spatial planning-based approach
• Vincent Fromentin (CEREFIGE, University of Lorraine): Flows of workers and financial flows in Luxembourg: results of econometric models
• Nora Benyoucef and Viviane Kerger (Greater Region Cross-border Workers Task Force 2.0): Obstacles to cross-border mobility: a legal approach, as for the secondment of cross-border workers in the Greater Region
   

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