The Centre for Cross Border Studies

Centre for Cross Border Studies launches Impact Assessment Toolkit Project

Webmaster — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:55:42 +0000

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 [...]

The cross-border health report they didn’t want you to see

Webmaster — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:31:45 +0000

As a former journalist, I do relish getting hold of a government report that makes eminently sensible recommendations but which politicians for some obscure reason do not want the public to see. So I was delighted when earlier this month a copy of the North-South Feasibility Study compiled by the Irish Department of Health [...]

5th Irish-African Partnership workshop in Belfast

Webmaster — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:46:37 +0000

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

Webmaster — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:02:41 +0000

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 [...]

Facing future energy challenges on an all-Island basis

Andy Pollak — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:11:47 +0000

It is perhaps a significant pointer for the future that one of the most successful examples of North-South cooperation over the past decade has been in a vital area which is not even covered by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Energy cooperation has seen the extension of the South’s natural gas pipeline network to [...]