Centre for Cross Border Studies launches Impact Assessment Toolkit Project

The Centre for Cross Border Studies announced today the beginning of an action research project to develop and pilot an Impact Assessment Toolkit for Cross Border Cooperation in Ireland. The Toolkit will be a practical tool to demonstrate the added value of cross border cooperation for those involved in cross border programmes and projects [...]

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, [...]

Second North-South rail seminar

The Centre held the 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 reasons [...]

Chamber of Commerce CEOs launch www.crossborder.ie

Toni Forrester, CEO Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce and Sinead McLaughlin CEO Derry Chamber of Commerce Launch Centre for Cross Border Studies Website

The Chief Executives of Derry and Letterkenny Chambers of Commerce recently launched the revamped website of the Centre for Cross Border Studies.  Speaking at the launch, which took place in Derry [...]

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 [...]

Micheál Martin launches 2010 Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland

At the launch of the Journal of Cross Border Studies on the 20 April 2010 in Dublin were (from left to right) Dr Jane Wilde, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Mr Micheál Martin TD, Dr Pauric Travers, Ms Helen Johnston and Mr Noel Treacey TD

The 2010 Journal of Cross Border  Studies in Ireland [...]

Fourth workshop and summer school of Irish-African Partnership in Malawi

Malawi Programme

22-25 March 2010

The fourth workshop and summer school of the Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP for short) – which brings together the nine universities on the island of Ireland with universities in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, and of which the Centre is a founding partner – [...]

First North-South rail seminar

A first North-South seminar to discuss the Belfast-Dublin rail line and the Enterprise service between Ireland’s two main cities was organised by the Centre in Belfast’s Hilton Hotel on 11 March. Around 25 people (most of them regular users of the line) attended from a range of organisations including the North South Ministerial Council [...]

Placement commences on North-South Student Teacher Exchange

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 [...]

Director addresses Sinn Fein London conference

Director Andy Pollak was one of the speakers at a Sinn Féin-organised conference in London on 20 February entitled ‘ Putting Irish unity on the agenda’. Andy appealed for an emphasis on cross-community and cross-border cooperation rather than Irish unity. He argued that ‘when we manage to cooperate to build a shared society within [...]

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