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8 Mar 2010 |
Placement commences on North-South Student Teacher Exchange
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The 2009-2010 North South Student Teacher Exchange Project will involve 19 students from six colleges of education: Stranmillis University College, Belfast; St Mary's University college, Belfast; St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin; Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin; Coláiste Mhuire Marion, Dublin and Froebel College of Education , Blackrock, Co Dublin.
This project is funded by the Standing Conference on Teacher Education (SCoTENS) and managed by the Centre for cross Border Studies in Armagh, in partnership with the participating colleges. The project is run by a steering group drawn from the Centre and the colleges of education. It will build on the experience of the first five exchanges (2003-2008).
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9 Dec 2009 |
North South Research Forum
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The inaugural North / South Research Forum will take place on Wednesday 9th December 2009 at the Crowne Plaza, Dundalk from 10am to 1.00pm. Keynote speakers were Ms Céline McHugh, Senior Policy Advisor, Forfás, Regional Competitiveness Agendas - supporting enterprise development in the regional context, Mr Michael Smyth, Head of School of Economics, University of Ulster, Local Economic Development In a Cross-Border Framework,
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15 Oct 2009 -
16 Oct 2009 |
7th SCoTENS annual conference on Reflective Practice
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The seventh conference of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) will take place in the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co Dublin, on Thursday 15th-Friday 16th October 2009 with the title ‘Reflective Practice: Challenges for Teacher Development’. There will be keynote speakers from Finland, Ireland and England
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6 Oct 2009 |
CCBS Director to address EU OPEN DAYS workshop
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As part of the EU’s OPEN DAYS 2009, Director Andy Pollak will address a workshop under the theme ‘Territorial cooperation: Working together across borders’ in Brussels on 6 October. He will speak as part of a team assembled by the French government’s Mission Opérationelle Transfrontaliere (MOT) cross-border cooperation agency on how cross-border services in health, education and training and citizens information work (and might work better) to assist citizens of the Irish-Northern Irish border region. The workshop will take place in the European Commission, Centre Borschette, from 2.30-6.15 pm, and will also be addressed by the vice-president of MOT, Alain Lamassoure MEP, and speakers from the German-Polish and Hungarian-Slovakian border regions.
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22 Sep 2009 |
Nobel Peace Laureate to address Universities Ireland event
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The 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Shirin Ebadi from Iran, will address the launch of the Scholars at Risk Ireland Section, which is being run by Universities Ireland, in Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday 22 September. Scholars at Risk is an international network of higher education institutions committed to defending the rights of university scholars and academics worldwide, and providing international protection to those scholars persecuted in their own countries. Universities Ireland has agreed to become its Irish section.
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19 Jun 2009 |
ICLRD report launch - Rural Restructuring: Local Sustainable Solutions to the Rural Challenge
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This report launch is the culmination of a twelve-month research programme into sustainable rural development, with a particular focus on economic diversification, spatial planning and rural communities. The overall theme of this study was to consider the impact of economic re-structuring on rural areas together with the opportunities provided by the current economic climate for diversification - this includes micro-enterprise development, business clustering, joint marketing and branding - and, in the context of a changing policy environment (the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland currently being reviewed, the National Spatial Strategy for Ireland being 'refreshed', and the Regional Planning Guidelines for the eight regional authority areas in the Republic being revised) to consider the opportunities offered by adopting a local asset-based approach to rural restructuring and diversification.
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2 Jun 2009 |
Border People User Group (1) - A better understanding of cross-border mobility statistics
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At the last User Group meeting held in May 2008 as part of the first phase of the Border People project members helped to influence the nature, scope and effectiveness of the website and provided advice on information needs and possible future developments. One of the main issues for future development highlighted at that meeting was the need to address the lack of accurate, up-to-date data about the extent of cross-border mobility to work, use services or to retire.
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