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Professor Marina Andeva from the University American College Skopje with workshops at the Comenius University in Bratislava

During a CEEPUS teaching mobility (20-24 April 2026), Prof. Marina Andeva delivered a workshop on Strategic Foresight and Futures Literacy to students from the Human Geography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava.

The workshop focused on forward-looking themes highly relevant to their field of study, including identity and belonging, demographic change, secularization, spatial patterns of identity, and governance in increasingly complex societies. By combining natural science perspectives with social and policy-oriented analysis, the sessions encouraged students to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and engage with long-term uncertainty in a structured way.A key highlight of the mobility was the strong engagement of the students, who actively contributed to discussions, group work, and scenario-building exercises. Their ability to connect empirical knowledge from geography and environmental studies with broader societal transformations resulted in thoughtful and well-grounded future scenarios.

The mobility strengthened academic cooperation between the two institutions and highlighted the importance of integrating future-oriented approaches into higher education. This experience reaffirmed the relevance of foresight methodologies in addressing contemporary challenges at the intersection of environment, demography, and society, and opened opportunities for continued collaboration within the CEEPUS network.

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The research camp “On the border” (Na granicy/Na hranici) gathered academic community from the Czech and Polish universities of the Border and Regional Studies Network

Fieldwork, lectures, sharing sessions, and guitar playing – these are experiences of the 4-day-long research camp organized by the University of Opole together with the Technical University of Liberec. On May 17-21, the students and academics explored the Czech-Polish borderland, staying in the border town of Głubczyce in the beautiful agrotourism center “Stable on Warszawska Street” (Stajnia na Warszawskiej). Our students, as a part of their fieldwork, traced the legacy of immigration from the Eastern Borderlands, investigated local cultural diversity, and mapped patterns of cross-border mobility together with identifying cross-border benefits. We also had guest lectures from the University of Wrocław and the Silesian University in Opava, so the research camp involved four partners of our network located on both sides of the border.

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Karolina Czabanowska, PhD student from the University of Opole, shares her experience from the CEEPUS stay at the Technical University of Liberec in April 2026

Liberec is a charming city, especially in spring with all the beautiful pink blooming trees! Walking around is quite a workout since everything is uphill, but luckily the local shops are full of cheese similar to our Polish oscypek, which perfectly makes up for the effort! 🌸🧀

Academically, the Geography Department at the Technical University of Liberec is a truly inspiring place. They also have this beautiful, giant globe that I completely fell in love with! It has a button and lights up just like a huge lamp. Luckily, nobody made me work any night shifts, so I didn’t have a reason to test it in the dark.

As a political science PhD student, my CEEPUS exchange allowed me to step out of my usual academic bubble. I had the great opportunity to field-test my original simulation game (focused on a trilateral bridge in the Euroregion Neisse – Nisa – Nysa) with Czech students. Their engagement and constructive feedback were highly valuable. The university staff welcomed me warmly and supported my work. I’m especially happy to have started a collaboration with one of the researchers, giving me a great space to share and discuss my work on the b-Solutions initiative. This exchange provided me with fresh perspectives for my ongoing PhD research!

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