News

What is the Future for Local Economic Development in the Context of the Global Economic Crisis? Wednesday 9 December 2009 Crowne Plaza, Dundalk, 10am – 1pm. The inaugural North South Research Forum took place on Wednesday 9th December 2009 at the Crowne Plaza, Dundalk – from 10.00am – 1.00pm. Keynote speakers: Ms Céline McHugh, Senior […]

Director Andy Pollak was one of the speakers at a seminar jointly organized at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes (IHEE) in Strasbourg by the University of Strasbourg and the Euro-Institure in Kehl, Germany entitled Les régions tranfrontalières ‘sensibles’. He spoke on ‘Challenges and opportunities in cross-border cooperation in Ireland after the Northern Irish conflict’. […]

Director Andy Pollak addressed the Irish-Scottish Forum for Spatial Planning at National University of Ireland Maynooth (the forum brings together planners from University of Aberdeen, Queen’s University Belfast and NUI Maynooth). The seminar was entitled ‘Development Corridors and the role of Spatial Planning in Border Territories’ and Andy spoke on ‘Cross border cooperation in Ireland […]

Director Andy Pollak addressed a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement in Dublin on the work of the Centre for Cross Border Studies and its associated bodies. The committee is chaired by Mr Noel Treacy (Fianna Fail), and among other TDs, senators and MLAs/MPs present were: SDLP leader […]

Director Andy Pollak addressed this workshop on cross-border working as part of the EU Peace Programme, organized jointly by Pobal and the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, in the Tara Centre in Omagh. The audience consisted of members of local authority-led Peace and Reconciliation Partnerships in Northern Ireland and the Southern border region. His subject […]

Director Andy Pollak addressed the board meeting in Omagh of the Irish Central Border Area Network, made up of councillors from Armagh, Dungannon and South Tyrone, Cookstown, Omagh, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal. He spoke on ‘The Centre for Cross Border Studies and its work in the Irish Border Region.’ See the speech.

On 6 October CCBS Director Andy Pollak addressed the Open Days workshop on ‘Local Cross-border Territories at the service of Citizens’ in the European Commission in Brussels. He was part of the EUROMOT (European network of cross-border local authorities) delegation coordinated by the French government’s Mission Opérationelle Transfrontalière (MOT) cross-border cooperation agency. The other speakers […]

Four Universities Ireland/IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council North-South postgraduate scholarships for the academic year 2009-2010 have been awarded. Two of these scholarships, in subjects of interest to business, are jointly funded by Universities Ireland and two firms (RPS Group and Dublin Port), and two by Universities Ireland alone. They are worth €15,000 each. The winners of […]

From left to right: [standing] Eoin Magennis, Prof John Bradley, John Driscoll, Paul Nolan, Martin Fraser, Ruth Taillon, Eimear Donnelly, Helen Johnston, Tony Kennedy, Annmarie O’Kane, Prof Dermot Diamond, Patricia McAllister, Joe Shiels, Margaret Connolly, Patricia Clarke, Prof John Coolahan, Paddy McDonagh [seated] Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Chris Gibson, President McAleese, Andy Pollak, Mairead Hughes […]

The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building is seeking a project manager to run its operations out of Dublin City University until the end of 2010. The Irish African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (2007-2011) brings together all nine universities on the island of Ireland and four universities in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi in […]