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Members of the Border and Regional Studies Network in Kaunas at the 28th Annual Conference of the Central European Political Science Association
 

On October 3-4 academics from the network participated in the conference ‘Twenty years of EU membership: lessons learned, challenges and opportunities’ organized in Lithuania. The team organized the panel ‘War, refugee movements and their political implications after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine’ moderated by Jarosław Jańczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) and Bartosz Czepil (University of Opole). Aside of the academics from Poznań and Opole, the network was also represented by the Silesian University of Opava, University of Pécs and University of SS. Cyril and Methodicus in Trnava.

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The next application round for 2025/2026 within the CEEPUS discussed by coordinators
 

On October 11, 2024 the coordinators of the Border and Regional Studies Network meet online for preparing to the new application round. This time the deadline for submitting application is the end of November 2024, thus the meeting was organized earlier than usually.

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After the 1st Congress of the Researchers of Borders and Borderlands (16–18 September 2024, Wrocław/Opole, Poland)
 

The border researchers from Poland and international academia have gathered in Wrocław and Opole to participate in the numerous sessions and panel discussions during the Congress titled (De)Constructing Borders in Borderlands Studies’. The Congress is organized by 5 Polish universities, 3 of them being members of our Border and Regional Studies Network: University of Wrocław, University of Opole and Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity in Poznań. There were also representatives of our network from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

The Congress gathered 108 participants from 17 countries representing 51 academic institutions, including 24 from Poland (other academics came from Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom, Croatia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ukraine, France, Finland, USA, Slovenia, Italy). The second congress will be organized in 2025 or 2026 in Białystok – the city located in the north-east Poland on the borderland area.

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