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New publication: Post-Growth Geographies

The publication ‘Post-Growth Geographies. Spatial Relations of Diverse and Alternative Economies’ is out now.

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Online conference: Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre

Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts

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VGDH award for the best dissertation in human geography

Ben Schmid receives biannual VGDH award for the best dissertation in human geography.

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New publication: Etrangers Familiers

The publication ‘Étrangers familiers. Les travailleurs frontaliers en Suisse : Conceptualisation, Emploi, Quotidien et Pratiques’ is out now.

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CONFERENCE: Un espace public pas comme les autres – 28 October 2021

Cimetières et crématoire face à la diversité culturelle et religieuse au Luxembourg. Les cimetières et jardins de souvenirs des crématoires sont des lieux ouverts au public et constituent dans certaines villes de véritables parcs et espaces verts. Ils attirent des visiteurs très divers : flâneurs, touristes et bien sûr les proches des défunts venant se recueillir sur…

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Winner of the Best Paper Award 2020 for the RSA eZine Regions

Very pleased to announce that Dr Constance Carr and Prof Markus Hesse have been awarded the Best Paper Award 2020 for the RSA eZine Regions for their paper ‘Sidewalk Labs closed down – whither Google’s smart city?’. Congratulations!

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Elżbieta Opiłowska’s research stay at DGEO

Elzbieta spent the month of July and September as international Border Studies scholar at the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning as part of the UniGR-CBS Guest Professorship. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Regional and Borderlands Studies at University of Wroclaw (Poland).We met Elzbieta and talked about her experience during…

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Two awards for the Create Digital Games for Education project

The CDG4E, or Create Digital Games for Education, is an Erasmus+ project – under the coordination of the Malta Information Technology Agency – that develops strategic partnerships to help exchanging best practices in the fields of technology and education.

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New: Cross-border vocational training

The article « Cross-border vocational training as processes of cross-border learning » by Ines Funk, Birte Nienaber & Hans-Peter Dörrenbächer has been published.In recent years cross-border vocational educational training (VET) in cross-border regions has gained more and more importance. The overall research question is how regional learning processes are shaped by bilateral cross-border formal learning agreements in…

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