The Centre for Cross Border Studies

Placement commences on North-South Student Teacher Exchange

Webmaster — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:53:02 +0000

The 2008-2009 North-South Student Teacher Exchange project Phase III will involve 20 students from seven colleges of primary education: Stranmillis University College and St Mary’s University College in Belfast; St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Church of Ireland College of Education, Coláiste Mhuire Marino and Froebel College of Education, all in Dublin, and Mary Immaculate College in [...]

Mental Health: The case for a cross-jurisdictional approach combining policy and research efforts on the island of Ireland

Webmaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:10:28 +0000

Despite the fact that mental illness is the most common health condition on the island – affecting every fourth citizen – it has long been treated as the ‘Cinderella’ sector of the health services in both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. In this report Dr Patricia Clarke looks at the context and challenges to [...]

Director speaks at Strasbourg seminar on European border cooperation

Webmaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:09:37 +0000

Director Andy Pollak was one of the speakers at a seminar jointly organized at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes (IHEE) in Strasbourg by the University of Strasbourg and the Euro-Institure in Kehl, Germany entitled Les régions tranfrontalières ‘sensibles’. He spoke on ‘Challenges and opportunities in cross-border cooperation in Ireland after the Northern Irish conflict’. [...]

Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, Out of Recession

Webmaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:08:42 +0000

21-22 January 2010 Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen

Sponsored by the Special EU Programmes Body and InterTradeIreland, this year’s conference theme is Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, out of Recession. The conference is organised around four sessions:

Session 1: Health Check on Economic Development, Planning and Infrastructure The presentations will set the context for the conference in [...]

BORDER PEOPLE cross-border mobility information website (PHASE TWO)

Webmaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:07:05 +0000

The second phase of the Border People (www.borderpeople.info) information website, to be developed in a continuing partnership with the North/South Ministerial Council. A new information officer largely devoted to this project started work in early February 2009.

Since Border People was launched to the public in late spring 2008, it was only starting to become properly [...]