In this month's Border-Zine:

The Centre The Centre is recruiting a Project Support Officer: Engagement and Outreach

We are looking for someone to support the “Maintaining the Necessary Conditions for Cooperation and Cross-Border Lives” project in its ongoing and regular engagement with a range of stakeholders, and to proactively secure new participants to activities under this project.

The Project

“Maintaining the Conditions for Cooperation and Cross-Border Lives” will, over twelve months, provide relevant policy and decision-makers with regular and evidence-based insights into the intensity and nature of post-Brexit North-South cooperation being undertaken by civic society organisations (CSOs) and local authorities on the island of Ireland, as well as the status of their relations with counterparts in Great Britain.

Closing date for applications is Monday 19th July at 10am.  Applications will be sent to ccbs@qub.ac.uk  Equal opportunities forms will be sent to crossborder@qub.ac.uk  

For a Job Description and Application Pack please click here!!

CCBS Submission to the House of Lords European Affairs Sub-Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland

This document has been prepared by the Centre for Cross Border Studies in response to the call for evidence issued by the House of Lords European Affairs Sub-Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. 

This short submission is closely informed by the Centre’s particular knowledge of and experience in cross-border socio-economic development involving a range of sectors from both Northern Ireland and Ireland, including public bodies, business and civil society. It is also centred on the Centre’s ongoing efforts in monitoring the extent to which the necessary conditions for North-South cooperation are being maintained following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, as well as the Centre’s role in convening the Ad-Hoc Group for North-South and East-West Cooperation, and will only focus on issues more immediately relevant to our work.

Presentation of the results of the 2nd Quarterly Survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation

Following the fantastic response to the 2nd edition of the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ Quarterly Survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation, the Centre will hold a webinar at 10.00am on Thursday 22nd July to present and discuss the results. The responses, which have been received from civic society organisations and local authorities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, will help us assess how the necessary conditions for North-South cooperation are being maintained, and how relations between organisations on the island of Ireland and Great Britain are being safeguarded since the end of the Brexit Transition Period and the implementation of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol. The feedback, which will be added to the results of the first Survey in the series, will help us gain a picture of the concerns and challenges being experienced by organisations on the ground.

Centre for Cross Border Studies launches survey on impacts of Covid-19 regulations on cross-border working

As part of the “Time to measure cross-border impacts” project, supported by the Department for Foreign Affair’s Reconciliation Fund, the Centre for Cross Border Studies has launched a survey on impacts of Covid-19 regulations on cross-border working.
Every day an estimated 30,000 people cross the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work. COVID-19 has caused significant disruption in how we all work but there are issues specific to cross-border workers that we would particularly like to draw out and understand better. We want to focus that understanding on how these issues have and/or might impact on the social, economic, environmental and/or territorial cohesion of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Cross-Border region.
Results of the survey are completely anonymised. TAKE THE SURVEY NOW!!

Covid-19 Certificate / Passport

Information on the EU Digital Covid Certificate (DCC) as well as a separate scheme which will be rolled out, on a phased basis, in Northern Ireland is now available on the Border People website. The page also contains information on cross-border travel and for cross-border workers including indicative dates for the introduction of these schemes.

To find out more, visit the Border People website.

Save the Dates

SCoTENS Annual Conference - Thursday 21th October 2021

Universities Ireland Conference - Saturday 6th November 2021