The Centre for Cross Border Studies

The overall aim of this project is to ‘identify how cross-border hospital services can provide mutual benefits for the people of the border region’. It is in two strands.

The report of the first strand, carried out by CCBS [...]

This is the second phase of the Border People (www.borderpeople.info) information website, being developed in a continuing partnership with the North/South Ministerial Council. This project is led by the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ IT manager, Joe Shiels, assisted [...]

As part of the integrative work of a cross-border observatory, the Centre is undertaking the development of a pilot Impact Assessment Toolkit (PIAT) for practical, mutually beneficial cross-border cooperation in Ireland. The pilot toolkit is intended to guide policy-makers [...]

This network, organised by the Centre’s sister organisation, the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD), brings together an  alliance  (CroSPLaN) of planners, economic development officers, local authority officials, councillors, and community and business interests on both sides [...]

The aim of this package of four closely inter-related research projects is to find ways of understanding and increasing the accessibility, size, transparency, competitiveness and profitability of Irish border region markets in a context where peace and normality have [...]