5th Irish-African Partnership workshop in Belfast

Wednesday 29 September – Friday 1 October 2010 Queen’s University Belfast

The fifth and final Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP) conference and workshop will take place at Queen’s University Belfast on Wednesday 29 September-Friday 1 October. Among the keynote speakers will be the former Irish President Dr Mary Robinson; the former head [...]

Planning for Cross-Border Hospital Services

Emerging Findings Seminar Thursday 14 October 2010 Fairways Hotel, Dundalk 11am – 3pm What can a strategic approach to developing cross-border hospital services contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable Irish border region? How can cross-border hospital services provide mutual benefits for the people of the border region? What are the issues which need [...]

Second North/South Research Forum meeting

Cross Border Creativity & Innovation Thursday 24 June 2010, 10am-1pm Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dundalk

The second meeting of the North/South Research Forum (NSRF), organised by the Centre with EU INTERREG funding, will took place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk at 10 am on Thursday 24 June 2010.

The NSRF brings together researchers, [...]

Border People User Group 4 - The Cross Border Worker

Thursday 23 September 2010 at 10.30am Fairways Hotel, Dundalk

The Centre for Cross Border Studies in partnership with the North South Ministerial Council Joint Secretariat manages the Border People website - www.BorderPeople.info.  Border People provides an online signposting service for people who wish to move across the Irish border to live, work or study.  This [...]

Malcolm Skilbeck addresses Universities Ireland council meeting

The internationally eminent Australian educationalist, Professor Malcolm Skilbeck, will be the speaker at the autumn Universities Ireland council meeting on 17th September 2010 in Dublin.

Professor Skilbeck was Professor and Dean of Education at the University of Ulster from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 he took on the leadership of the newly founded Australian [...]

Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South (SCoTENS)

The 2010 conference of the Standing Conference on Teacher  Education North and South (SCoTENS) will take place in the Hilton Hotel in Belfast on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th October 2010 with the title ‘Teacher Education for Inclusion’.

Further details from Patricia McAllister at p.mcallister@qub.ac.uk or 028-3751-8282 (048 from Republic of Ireland).

Second North-South rail seminar

The Centre will hold a second seminar in Dublin on Thursday 27 May to discuss the Dublin-Belfast rail line and the Enterprise service between Ireland’s two main cities (the first was in Belfast on 11 March). The reason for holding these seminars is concern among regular users, and others who for business or research [...]

Border People User Group (3) – The Frontier Worker

At the Cross Border Worker Seminar on 20 May 2010 in Ramada Da Vinci's Hotel, Derry were (from left to right) – Annmarie O’Kane and Joe Shiels, Centre for Cross Border Studies, Michael Carr and Joe Lavery, EURES Cross Border Partnership and Lisa Fegan, John McMahon & Co Chartered Accountants

The Frontier or [...]

North South Student Teacher Exchange Phase III 2008-2009

The 2008-2009 North-South Student Teacher Exchange project Phase III will involve 20 students from seven colleges of primary education: Stranmillis University College and St Mary’s University College in Belfast; St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Church of Ireland College of Education, Coláiste Mhuire Marino and Froebel College of Education, all in Dublin, and Mary Immaculate College [...]

Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, Out of Recession

21-22 January 2010 Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen

Sponsored by the Special EU Programmes Body and InterTradeIreland, this year’s conference theme is Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, out of Recession. The conference is organised around four sessions:

Session 1: Health Check on Economic Development, Planning and Infrastructure The presentations will set the [...]

Notes from the Next Door Neighbours

Notes from the Next Door Neighbours

WHAT THEY SAY…

The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an important catalyst for bringing people to work together across a range of social and economic issues and thus find out what they have in common. The tragedy of the recent past on this island is that we turned our backs on each other and did everything separately. The value the Centre adds is to show how much more we can achieve by working together. — THE TAOISEACH, MR BRIAN COWEN TD, 11 March 2009