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The Centre for Cross Border Studies is seeking a Research Assistant. Closing date for applications is Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 2.00pm and interviews will be held in Armagh on Wednesday 28 May 2014. Downloads Job advertisement (word document) Job advertisement (pdf) Job description and specification (word document) Job description and specification (pdf) Job application form (word […]

The Centre for Cross Border Studies has provided written evidence to the Inquiry into the Barroso Task Force initiated by the Committee for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. Among some of its views, CCBS stressed how the Barroso Task Force had “provided privileged and timely access to a wide range […]

CCBS’s Research and Policy Manager, Anthony Soares, was invited by the International Consortium for the Study of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation to give a paper on Irish foreign policy and Northern Ireland at an international colloquium that took place in the University of Nottingham from the 21st to 23rd of March. The paper, “What Shall […]

The Annual CCBS/ICLRD Conference was held at the Cavan Crystal Hotel on 30 – 31 January 2014. The theme of the Conference was Cross Border Economic Development and the Border Development Zone Concept. The Border Development Zone (BDZ) project investigates ways of tackling the region’s unique double challenge of peripherality and the presence of an […]

7th February 2014 The 2014 Centre for Cross Border Studies  / International Centre for Local and Regional Development  Annual Joint Conference was held in the Cavan Crystal Hotel on the 30th and 31st of January, bringing together policy makers, academics, and practitioners to discuss the latest developments in cross-border cooperation. This year’s conference focused on […]

On 5th February2014, the Centre for Cross Border Studies gave an informal information session in Leinster House to members of the Oireachtas, facilitated by the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. The following Briefing Papers and Presentations from the session are available to download: (Higher) Education: crossing the border [PDF 119Kb] Presentation […]

Universities Ireland are now accepting applications for the following awards: 2014 PhD History Bursary Universities Ireland is offering one bursary to a student taking a PhD on a topic relating to the 1912-1923 period in Ireland, the decade of the First World War and the division of the island into the states of Ireland (Irish […]

Published in the Irish News 4 February 2014 Author: Philip McDonagh, an independent economist based in Northern Ireland. “It will really require the input of the private sector and its representatives from the region to make things happen. The next task will be to harness some of this energy in support of the initiative.” It […]

In its response to the DFA’s foreign policy review, The Centre for Cross Border Studies considers that the economic prosperity and well-being of the people of the Republic of Ireland can only be assured with the permanent attainment of stability and security of all those living on the island of Ireland. For more, please download […]

The Centre for Cross Border Studies has submitted a response to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in relation to the UK Government’s review of the balance of EU Competences in the area of Social Cohesion. The response is available to download in PDF format below. Summary: In the view of The Centre for […]

Members of the Transfrontier Euro Institute Network (TEIN) from France, Poland, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, visited Belfast on 5 and 6 November 2013 for the fourth meeting of the PAT-TEIN project, funded under the EU Leonardo Transfer of Innovation Programme. Partners are working together to adapting a Toolkit for Cross-border project management […]

CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was in Maastricht on 13 December to participate in an ‘Expert Panel’ on Instruments and capacity building for territorial monitoring and impact assessment, hosted by the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. This was the closing event of the EMR2020 project, funded under the EU INTERREG IVA programme, which has been developing a future strategy […]