Author: Benczi Melinda
What makes cross-border cooperation work? Lessons from the BorderLabs CE study tour in the trinational region of Basel
On 17-18 March 2026, the partners of the BorderLabs CE project visited the trinational region of Basel, one of Europe’s most advanced laboratories of cross-border cooperation. The participants met practitioners from Germany, France and Switzerland, and explored how cross-border governance ...
Planning, institutionalization, implementation: CESCI at the V4-Ukraine CBC closing conference
On February 5-6, 2026, the University of Uzhhorod hosted the closing event of a project examining the best practices and institutional conditions for cross-border cooperation (CBC) between the Visegrad Four and Ukraine. The two-day event was both a professional forum ...
The third newsletter of the BorderLabs CE project has been published
This newsletter summarizes the latest news and events of the BorderLabs CE project, presenting the results of cross-border cooperation in Central Europe, pilot experiences, and upcoming programs ...
Report from the B-SHAPES Winter School in Halmstad
From 28 to 31 January 2026, the B-SHAPES Winter School “Inclusive Policy-Making in European Borderlands – Culture, Landscape and Minorities” brought together a small group of early-career and practitioner participants at Halmstad University in Sweden. The Winter School was designed ...
Advancing Cross-Border Trade for Local Producers
On 2 February, Ister Granum EGTC held its 3rd Regional Stakeholder Group (RSG) meeting in Štúrovo, bringing together key actors involved in supporting the cross-border sale of local products ...
Cross-Border Forestry Dialogue held in Bad Leonfelden
Representatives from Austrian and Czech forestry, veterinary, emergency and administrative authorities met to strengthen cross-border cooperation along the Upper Austrian–South Bohemian border. The meeting highlighted that cooperation already works well in some regions, while in others—particularly in the Freistadt district—clear ...
The ITEM report on the Schengen Borders Code, also edited by the LUPS-CESCI Research Workshop, has been published
The case study of the Hungarian-Austrian border section by the LUPS–CESCI Research Group on Cross-Border Cooperation has been published in a joint volume of ITEM and TEIN. The study, titled “The revised Schengen Borders Code – an ex-post evaluation in ...
The World We Live In – Cross-Border Cooperation at the Heart of Central and Eastern Europe
The second edition of The World We Live In: Models and Perspectives of Cross-Border Cooperation in Central-Eastern Europe took place in Cluj-Napoca on 14-15 November 2025, bringing together leading academics, practitioners, and institutional representatives committed to strengthening cooperation across borders ...
Cross-Border Information Evening in Reichersberg
Reichersberg, 6 November 2025 — More than 140 people joined the information evening “Arbeiten drent & herent” (“Working here and there”), held at the FACC Academy in Reichersberg, to learn about the realities of cross-border employment in the Upper Austria–Lower Bavaria region. With nearly ...
General Assembly of the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN) and Conference entitled “Beyond Borders. Culture, Language, and Identity in European Integration”
Zsuzsanna Fejes, President of CESCI and leader of the LUPS-CESCI Research Group on Cross-Border Cooperation, together with Teodor Gyelník, Senior Researcher at CESCI, represented CESCI at the 2025 General Assembly of the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (TEIN). The General Assembly brought ...
