The Centre for Cross Border Studies will be hosting its 23rd Annual Conference on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th September 2022 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk. The conference will consider:
Commitment, Resilience and Perseverance: New challenges and approaches to cross-border cooperation, mobility and relations. More details and ticket sales will be announced soon. Save the date!
5th Quarterly Survey on the conditions for North-South, East West Cooperation
The results of the 5th Quarterly Survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation are now available. Our Director, Dr Anthony Soares, and Ben Rosher, our Research Associate, have recorded a presentation of the results which you can now view. A research briefing is also now available. Thanks to all of you who took the time to complete the survey.
CCBS Chair takes part in latest ‘Shared Island’ event
Our Chair, Peter Osborne, took part on a panel discussion in the latest event organised as part of the Shared Island Initiative entitled ‘A North-South comparison of education and training systems: lessons for policy’. Peter spoke about SCoTENS being highlighted as an example of good practice by stakeholders interviewed in the report. He also discussed the importance of tackling education inequality and the importance of giving civil society a role in the process.
Watch a recording of the event
here and read the
report
CCBS in the News
In the past month, The Centre for Cross Border Studies has featured in The Detail’s investigation marking the anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and its impact on the cross-border living and cooperation. The pieces focus on the experiences of cross-border workers since the Agreement was signed and on the success of the Waterways Ireland, one of the all-Ireland institutions created by the agreement. Pieces like these help the expertise and research of the Centre reach a wider audience and highlight the benefits of cooperation on a North-South and East-West basis.
New Common Charter Supported by Bolster Community
CCBS is happy to welcome Bolster Community as the latest supporter of the New Common Charter for Cooperation within and between these Islands. Based in Newry and Kilkeel, Bolster Community is a charity and social enterprise, whose cross-border collaborations are rooted in the same principles as the Common Charter. They are the latest of a number of organisations to support the charter this year.
Learn more about the Charter and how your organisation can become a supporter
here
Five Successful Projects Announced under the Shared Island-SCoTENS Research Partnership
A call for research on the themes of “Enhancing educational attainment: sharing experience and learning on a shared island” and “How we teach: acknowledging, understanding and learning with others and from others on a shared island” was issued with funding of up to €25,000 per project available. Projects are style=North-South research partnerships, with contributions from international experts, which will undertake action-based research on enhancing understanding across communities through education.
Read more about the projects
here
Universities Ireland Bursaries and Scholarships
Universities Ireland are delighted to announce that the call for applications for the 2022 North/South Postgraduate Scholarships and PhD Bursaries are now open. The aim of the North/South Scholarship scheme is to encourage outstanding students from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to cross the border to undertake postgraduate study and experience life in the other Irish jurisdiction. The history bursaries support students undertaking postgraduate study 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 Free State) and Northern Ireland.
OTHER CROSS BORDER NEWS
Event - Borders Forum 2022 ‘Cross-border territories: fatalism or resilience?’ – 21st & 22nd June 2022
The Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) is organising the second edition of the BORDERS FORUM, which will take place on June 21 and 22, 2022 at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. The event will also be broadcasted online. In the face of the crises that we have been dealing with for the past 20 years, should we resign ourselves to a situation where borders are reduced to mere dividing lines? Or are we capable collectively of demonstrating resilience and of regarding borders as shared territories that are sources of progress? These are the questions that the Borders Forum will attempt to answer.
Find out more and register
here
Volunteering Opportunity – Voices4Care
Voices4Care was set up in 2013 by All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC) to learn from people’s personal experiences of palliative care and to inform and influence palliative care on the island of Ireland. They are now undertaking a recruitment campaign for new volunteers to join as members of Voices4Care. Joining will give members the chance to be part of something that can make a real difference; and influence palliative care education, research, policy and practice.
WHAT WE'RE READING
The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Brexit: A briefing note, Dr Andrew McCormick, published 27 March 2022.
WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Hearing on Tourism and the Common Travel Area, Wednesday 20th April 2022.
