UniGR-CBS awarded the Interregional Research Award of the Greater Region

The UniGR-Center for Border Studies was awarded the Interregional Research Award of the Greater Region on November 25, 2022. The award honours the exceptional achievements of researchers in cross-border research cooperation.

The UniGR-Centre for Border Studies, which became a permanent interdisciplinary center of expertise of the University of the Greater Region in September 2022, received the award for the successfully completed project "European Center for Competence and Knowledge in Border Studies" (2018-2022). The cooperation project was funded by the European program "Interreg VA Greater Region", co-financed by the Région Wallonne and the Saarland and supported by the University of the Greater Region.
 

_{The 1st interregional Research Award was handed over by Irène Weiss, Vice-President of the Higher Education Commission of the Grand Est Region}
 

_{The Greater Region 2022 Interregional Research Award was given to a team of 80 researchers from six universities}
 

The award ceremony took place during the Conference of Ministers of Higher Education and Research of the Greater Region in Metz. The prize was received on behalf of the interregional project team by the head of the UniGR Centre for Border Studies, Dr Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) and the President of the University of Lorraine, Dr Hélène Boulanger.

In his thanksgiving, Dr Christian Wille underlined the strategic role of the award-winning project for the future of border research in the Greater Region: "Thanks to the EU funding, border researchers have been able to build up a unique cooperation network in recent years, which is now firmly anchored as an interdisciplinary UniGR-Centre of Excellence. The science award confirms the strategy of the presidents and rectors to give border research in the Greater Region a future and will make the UniGR-Centre for Border Studies even more visible on the international stage."
 

_{Christian Wille thanks the political representatives of the Greater Region on behalf of the entire project team for the award} 
 

_{The President of the University of Lorraine, Hélène Boulanger, in the presence of the General Secretary of the UniGR, Frédérique Seidel,
emphasised the strategic role of the project for the Greater Region's university area.}
 

Besides funding international conference journeys to promote research results and establish new cooperation contacts, the award of 35,000 euros will be used to invite more international border researchers to the Greater Region in the coming years. Together with the invited guest researchers, new initiatives in border research are to be developed and implemented at the locations of the University of the Greater Region.
 

Results of the project here

Detailed project summary available in German and French

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