CCBS Acting Director invited to CESCI’s 10th anniversary celebrations

CCBS’s Acting Director, Anthony Soares, was invited to take part in the conference marking the 10^th anniversary of the Central European Service for Cooperation Initiatives (CESCI), which took place in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, on the 25^th and 26^th of April. The conference drew policy-makers, cross-border practitioners and academics from across Europe and further afield, with senior European Commission officials and Hungarian Government ministers also attending. Themes included cross-border governance and policy-making, the current state of border studies, and integrated cross-border development. Anthony took part in a panel devoted to cross-border knowledge sharing, where he presented on the implementation of CCBS’s “Towards a New Common Chapter” project, which is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Community Relations Council, and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Reconciliation Fund.