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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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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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Kick-off: Formation continue en Aménagement du territoire

On Tuesday, 7th September we welcomed 20 new students to the 2021/2022 edition of the Formation continue en Aménagement du territoire (FACT).

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Welcome Jussi Laine

Jussi joined the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning in August 2021 as an international Border Studies scholar as part of the UniGR-CBS Guest Professorship for a two-month stay. He is Associate Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at University of Eastern Finland.

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EMN National Conference 2021

EMN Luxembourg National Conference 2021: « Detecting and protecting vulnerable migrants » Thursday, 30th September, from 9.00 to 12.00, online (Zoom)The conference will focus on the detection and protection of vulnerable migrants in the international protection procedure. It will include two panels: Panel 1 will present the concept of ‘vulnerability’ from a scientific perspective and examine how the…

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New publication: EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance

The publication « EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance » has been published.Discussing the ongoing and future challenges of EU Cohesion Policy, this book critically addresses the economic, social and territorial challenges at the heart of the EU’s policy. It identifies the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the policy as well as the cohesions goal interlinkage with…

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Chercheur.euse.s invité.e.s de Pologne et de la Finlande

L’UniGR-Center for Border Studies basé au sein du département Géographie et aménagement du territoire accueillera au mois de septembre et octobre deux chercheurs internationaux invités. Pendant leur séjour, ils mèneront des recherches sur la fermeture de la frontière germano-polonaise due à la Covid 19 ainsi que sur les processus d’européanisation face à la réintroduction des…

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Winner of the 2020 Breheny Prize

Congratulations to Prof Geoffrey Caruso and Ass-Prof Dr Rémy Lemoy who have been awarded the Michael Breheny Prize for their paper “Evidence for the homothetic scaling of urban forms” published in 2020.The Prize is awarded annually for the most innovative paper in the journal Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science during the…

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New: Waiting as probation: selecting self-disciplining asylum seekers

The article ‘Waiting as probation: selecting self-disciplining asylum seekers’ by Lorenzo Vianelli, Nick Gill and Nicole Hoellerer has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.The article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum adjudication…