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Second session of the MOOC “Spatial Analysis Beyond Borders”
The second edition of the "Spatial analysis beyond borders" MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is online from 3rd February to 12 March 2020. Registration is now open here.
Throughout the five weeks of the course, participants can exchange with each other and the moderators on the videos and resources used for the MOOC. In particular, a common thread exercise, will provide an opportunity…
International Workshop “Borders as Border Complexities”
Over 40 border researchers accepted the UniGR Center for Border Studies' invitation to come to the University of Luxembourg for an international workshop. The event held on December 5th and 6th, 2019 was dedicated to an emerging development in border research and was a prelude to the two-year workshop series entitled “Border Complexities.”
The basis for the research is the finding that…
Call for Papers: UniGR-CBS thematic issue Borders in Perspective
The next issue of Borders in Perspective will be entitled “The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis” and is the outcome of the research collaboration established between Saarland University, Germany (Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner) and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine (Dr. Tetyana Ostapchuk) within the framework of the DAAD…
New book release: Border Experiences in Europe
For the last decade, borders in Europe have been back on the political agenda. Border research has reacted to that and is forging new ways of thinking and analysing borders. The new book release is following up this development and promotes a perspective that focuses on day-to-day reality and highlights the everyday experience of borders. Six authors from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies…
Successful kick-off: The first forum Greater Region of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies
On 7 June 2018, the first “Greater Region” forum on the subject of “Cross-border employee mobility as a resource for the Greater Region” took place at the House of the Greater Region (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) as part of the Interreg VA Greater Region project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” with the participation of the Minister of Labor and Employment of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,…
Kick-off Conference – Border Studies – Towards a research network of excellence
“Border Studies – Towards a research network of excellence” - under this heading, the University of the Greater Region and its member universities presented the project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” for the first time to the public at the University of Luxembourg on 24 October 2018. The project is funded by the INTERREG VA Greater Region program with €2M ERDF until 2020. “I am very…
2nd Greater Region Forum: Cross-border mobility in the educational sector
The second “Greater Region Forum”, under the heading “Realities and Visions of Cross-Border Mobility in the Educational Sector”, took place on 7 November 2018 in the House of the Greater Region (Esch-sur-Alzette) under the high patronage of Ms Corinne Cahen, President of the Summit of the Greater Region during the Luxembourg Presidency (2017-2018). The podium participants themselves were…
Guest lecture in the Workshop Border Textures
Dr. Hannes Krämer of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) was guest lecturer in the Workshop Border Textures on 22 February 2018. In his lecture entitled “Border infrastructures”, the Divisional Head for Border Research at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION illuminated innovative approaches to border region issues. Following on from the recent development in Border Studies of…