2.30pm, Monday 11th September Venue: NICVA, Belfast. During this event Dr Anthony Soares (Deputy Director, Centre for Cross Border Studies) presented the findings from an ongoing Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust funded project, “Towards a New Common Chapter”. This project has been assessing the extent to which cross-border cooperation is independently valued and enacted at the […]
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CCBS Deputy Director gives keynote lecture at Warwick University
Deputy Director, Anthony Soares, gave a keynote lecture at the “Discourses of Migration” conference at Warwick University (7 September). The title of his lecture was “Migration at the Northern Ireland (Brexit) Border: Identities, Commodities and Connections”, and in which he discussed the extent to which future migration serves either a purely mechanical function that dehumanises […]
Read More“Enhancing Capacities of Regions and Cities for Better Cross-Border Cooperation“
TEIN and its associated partners the MOT, CESCI and DG Regio/European Commission are hosting a workshop as part of the European Week of the Regions and Cities. The workshop will take place at 2.30pm on 10th October 2017 in room JDE-51, Jacques Delors Building, 99-101 rue Belliard, Brussels. The workshop is aimed towards political respresentatives, […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon addresses “the totality of relationships” regarding the Good Friday Agreement
Centre for Cross Border Studies Director Ruth Taillon was invited to speak at Féile an Phobail on Saturday 5th August in Belfast. Next year is the 20th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Since the Agreement was signed in 1998, cross-border, all-island and east-west co-operation has been evolving on many fronts: civic, public and business. However, […]
Read More‘The Garlic Wall’ a talk by Mr Dominique Jan Searle Gibraltar Representative to the UK
Event Date: 28th July 2017 The border between Spain and Gibraltar closed between 1969 and 1985. Used as a device to pressure Gibraltarians the border continues to be a key factor in the life of the Rock and its hinterland. Mr Searle’s presentation looked at the human and political factors of the dispute with Spain and […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon was a guest speaker at a ‘Brexit Briefing’
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was one of the guest speakers at a ‘Brexit Briefing’ event hosted in the Hotel Kilmore, Cavan on the evening of 11 July by Brendan Smith TD, Chairman of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. Addressing the audience of more than 200 people in attendance, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern provided a personal […]
Read MoreCCBS Team supports Sectoral Dialogue event on Enterprise Skills Needs and Brexit
The Centre for Cross Border Studies provided support at a Sectoral Dialogue event on Enterprise Skills Needs and Brexit, hosted by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Education and Skills on 3 July at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald TD opened the […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon speaks at EESC conference ‘Brexit and it’s border implications?’
On 23rd June 2017, Centre for Cross Border Studies Director Ruth Taillon was a guest speaker at the the Bureau of the Various Interests’ Group of the EESC at the Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland. The location was significant as it is the place where, in 2011, the “New Cross Border Agreement” was signed between the […]
Read More2nd Annual Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture “Economics: Helping to Make Us Human”
Prof José Luis Iparraguirre, Chief Economist, Age UK, gave the 2nd Annual Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture “Economics: Helping to Make Us Human” on Thursday 22nd June 2017 in Queen’s University Belfast on behalf of the Centre for Cross Border Studies. Ruth Taillon, Director of the Centre, opened the lecture by paying tribute to Sir George […]
Read MoreGood Practice in Cross-Border Cooperation in the Irish Border Region.
Event Date 20 June 2017. The Centre for Cross Border Studies was delighted to welcome guests to the Canal Court in Newry 20th June 2017 for a seminar on ‘Good Practice in the Cross-Border Cooperation in the Irish Border Region’. The seminar, part of an international study visit for participants in a project funded by […]
Read MoreTEIN Members Visit ‘PEACE Link’ Clones
Following on from the morning seminar ‘ Good Practice in Cross Border Cooperation’ at the Canal Court Hotel Newry and as part of the TEIN International Study Visit, our guests from the ‘Transfrontier Euro-Institute Network’ were taken on a visit to the PEACE Link in Clones. Supported with €7.8 million worth of funding from the European Union’s […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon presents at ‘Brexit: Charting a Way Forward. A Civil Society Dialogue’
The EU draft guidelines on the forthcoming EU-UK negotiations make it clear that the EU is open to finding ‘flexible and imaginative solutions’ which reflect the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland. The potential threat that Brexit represents to rights and equalities, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the border and the economy in Northern Ireland have been […]
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