The Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) launched the 2017 edition of its Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland on Monday 4th December in Riddle Hall in Belfast. Chair of the CCBS Board Dr Helen Johnston opened the event before guest speaker Professor Duncan Morrow, Director of Community Engagement at Ulster University, gave his lecture […]
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Cross-Border Functional Regions: Perspectives from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scandinavia
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, the Sweden-Norway INTERREG Programme and the SEUPB organised a visit by a delegation of close to 30 local and regional politicians from the Norway-Sweden border region. As part of the programme the Swedish and Norwegian representatives took part in a policy seminar and discussion in Armagh’s Market Place Theatre […]
Read MoreCCBS Deputy Director gives evidence to House of Lords Committee
CCBS Deputy Director, Anthony Soares, appeared before the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee to give evidence to its inquiry on Brexit and reciprocal healthcare arrangements. The inquiry’s overall focus is on the reciprocal healthcare implications of Brexit for UK citizens travelling, living and/or working in the rest of the EU, and for EU […]
Read MoreCentre for Cross Border Studies Policy Seminar – Healing, Learning and Citizens’ Rights: Crossing Borders
10am, Tuesday 10th October. Venue: Brussels. Healing, Learning and Citizens’ Rights: Crossing Borders was the theme of this year’s CCBS policy seminar at the office of the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU in Brussels on 10th October. Despite a public transport strike, the event attracted more than 40 people, and was very well received by those in […]
Read MoreCCBS Deputy Director speaks at William Carleton Summer School on “Creativity and its limits in the approaches to Brexit”
On the 16th of September, CCBS Deputy Director Anthony Soares gave a keynote speech at the William Carleton Summer School, where he assessed the UK Government’s proposals on Northern Ireland and the border as part of the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. In his speech, he asked how creative, imaginative and […]
Read MoreTowards a New Common Chapter: Assessing the commitment to cross-border cooperation among grassroots community organisations
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 […]
Read MoreCCBS 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 […]
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