Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Our pre-conference event, the 4th Cross-Border School, is an initiative to gather academicians and practitioners. This year, CBS will work around four main themes:

• Cross-border regions in COVID times
• Cross-border spatial planning
• Cross-border Labour Market
• Cross-border culture

Bringing together cross-border cooperation academics and practitioners with the double aim of enhancing dialogue and mutual learning whilst increasing knowledge. Many stakeholders will contribute: the University of Victoria (Canada), the University of Liége (Belgium), the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), the University of Luxembourg, the Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic) and ITEM (the Netherlands). Various AEBR members will also take part, and we expect wide online participation.

Working language: English

Download the detailed programme of the CBS here.

Thursday, 5 November 2020

In the morning, AEBR statutory meetings (Executive Committee and General Assembly) will be held jointly from 10:00 to 12:00.

In the afternoon, the official opening and first two sessions of AEBR Annual Conference (Day 1) will deal with The future of Europe from the perspective of border regions, and Crises like COVID-19 and consequences for border citizens.

Friday, 6 November 2020

Two additional sessions have been organized in the morning, before the official closing, dealing with two major issues for the future of AEBR: A project-based organisation? (b-solutions, Interreg Volunteer Youth, InterVentures, EUROsociAL, …) and Communication and networking: future AEBR cooperation with EU institutions and other partners

Working languages (simultaneous interpretation): English, French, German and Polish.

You can see the updated programme of the Conference in AEBR website.

And this is the link to register for AEBR Cross-Border School and Annual Conference. Registered participants will receive the link to connect through Zoom, and a test connection has been planned on 30 October.

Looking forward to meeting many of you virtually in any of the events or specific sessions!

The AEBR Team