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Research&Hiking Camp on the Polish-Czech borderland

On June 15-19 students from the University of Opole and the Technical University of Liberec got together in Stary Gierałtów located on the Czech-Polish borderland. They explored peculiarities of the area in the mixed teams focusing on tourism, biodiversity, transborder infrastructure and post-flooding realities. Thanks to the team from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań they could also participate in a simulation game concerning migration crisis along the border. The meeting gathered altogether representatives of four universities of our Border and Regional Studies network from Opole, Liberec, Poznań and Wrocław.

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Big success of the Border and Regional Studies Institute (BARI) !!!

The BARI is a research entity established at the University of Opole in 2024. It integrates political scientists, sociologists and geographers. At the end of July (2025) the European Commission granted 100 thousand Euro to the BARI for establishing the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. The funding is for 36 months. The Centre aims at advancing research, policy engagement, and education in the field of cross-border cooperation (CBC) and border management. It will address the key EU priorities related to regional integration, resilience, and multilateral collaboration in border regions.

See the annual report from the BARI’s activity for 2024/2025:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLNQEkAbqc&t=28s

Call for papers for the conference “Narratives of Europe in uncertain times. Perceptions of Europe in trans-European, national, local discourses and borderlanders’ stories”

This conference is organized jointly by the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation actions Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES) and United in Narrative Diversity? (NARDIV). It will be held in Warsaw on 5-6 March 2026. The conference offers an opportunity for scholars of different disciplines in European Studies, Regional Studies and Border Studies to join in presenting and discussing the latest research in these fields. The PhD students based in Germany or Poland researching on these topics are also invited to a special, fully funded PhD-panel.

Interested participants are kindly asked to submit a max. 200 words abstract to the organizing committee by 30 September 2025, using this form: https://forms.gle/qEcqGnAuFNRqybhp7

For more details see the conference flyer >>>

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