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Online Lecture Series: Border Realities
Border Realities 2023/2024: Crises, Resistances, Silences – Perspectives from the Border and Borderlanders
Considering the prevailing inflation and commonplace usage of the term "crisis," the lecture series discusses in 2023-2024 situated and critical explorations of crisis from the perspectives of border scholars in geography, political sciences, cultural studies and anthropology…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Understanding Russia’s War in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led not only to the shift of territorial and mental borders in Europe but has also driven profound changes of geopolitical visions of the contemporary world and its economic, political, and social future.
The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper shares the views from three Ukrainian researchers on the entanglements of borders,…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper – Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries
In the 21st century, cross-border cooperation in the EU's national peripheries has become very important. However, this should by no means be taken for granted, as the Covid 19 pandemic has shown, for example.
The project "Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Border Regional Peripheries", which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (…
New book release: Territorial borders as practice
Ulla Connor is a sociologist and completed her PhD in 2022 at the University of Luxembourg with a praxeological study of territorial borders in the empirical field of cross-border cartography. She is a member of the UniGR-CBS Working Group Spatial Planning and talked to the UniGR-CBS about her latest publication.
In an interview…
Workshop – Net zero land consumption in the Greater Region
The UniGR-CBS actively shapes the Greater Region and sees itself as a Science Policy-Interface. Together with stakeholders from the Greater Region, the UniGR-CBS invites you to a workshop on the development of spatial development strategies considering resource conservation. At the center is the EU Commission's target of net zero land consumption by 2050 and its…
Study Day – Cross-border labor markets
The labor markets in cross-border regions are under pressure: crises (health, energy, demography or even economy), labor shortages and regional competition are just some of the challenges. What are the prospects for cross-border regions?
This study day address these issues in two panels. The day will close with a round-table discussion with practitioners and…
"Borderland Stories" wins Saarland State Award for University Teaching 2022
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, the project "Borderland Stories," which was launched in 2021, was awarded with the Saarland State Prize for University Teaching 2022. "The goal was to bring students from the Greater Region together with students from Ukraine and have them engage in a dialogue about life in their respective borderlands." said UniGR-CBS member…