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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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Summer School at the University of Pécs 2026 – organizational meeting

On June 10, 2025 coordinators of the Border and Regional Studies network got together online in order to discuss details of their joint activity – the summer school to be organized in Pécs in June 2026. The summer school titled ‘Visible and invisible borders along the borderlands of the contemporary Europe’ will integrate students and teachers from 13 universities of the network. The agenda of the meeting covered:

Main organizational issues like date, students to be recruited and accommodation for students
Financing of the participation within the CEEPUS
Programme of the summer school

This was a very lively and fruitful discussion, especially when it comes to the content of the programme. We have decided that aside of lecturing component, it should include knowledge sharing sessions for students, field trips, simulation games and round table discussion.

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Expert panel on the Czech-Polish research project concerning the cross-border cooperation

On June 18, 2025 academics from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the University of Wrocław arrived to Stary Gierałtów (Poland) in order to discuss and gave a critical feedback to the research project focusing on the cross-border cooperation in the Czech-Polish Euroregions. The project titled ‘The Impact of Post-war Population Transfers on the Czech-Polish Cross-border Cooperation’ is implemented by the political scientists and political geographers from the University of Opole and the Technical University of Liberec, under the leadership of professor Hynek Böhm. After presenting a preliminary results of the project to the experts from Poznań and Wrocław, there was a three hours long discussion over the challenges and drawbacks of the research process. This was a fruitful and demanding discussion, stimulated by the geographic location of the expert panel on the Czech-Polish borderland.

The research project is implemented between 2022-2025 within the OPUS 22 + LAP/Weave Programme (grant no nr 2021/43/I/HS5/02529).

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