News and Events

B-SHAPES at several European conferences in summer and autumn 2024

B-SHAPES researchers have been disseminating the first results of the B-SHAPES research at different European conferences in summer and autumn 2024.

First academic publication out: Borders and tourism – an important relationship

This co-authored article of B-SHAPES WP5 researchers Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Fredriika Jakola, Tomas Nilson and Sara Svensson problematizes tourism destination development (...)

Art events in the Czech-Polish and Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish border regions.

Our B-SHAPES partner Lungomare has initiated the planned art events in the Czech-Polish and Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish border regions.

Second Policy Brief released!

Our second Policy Brief on minority media and their narratives on borders and Europe is out! It gives some advice how media can diversify voices in reporting, emphasize human stories and better highlight the EU’s role in local contexts.

The end of August marks the deadline of the B-SHAPES first reporting period (April 2023 - June 2024)

... and yes – we do have much to report! The first fifteen months of the project have been full of introductory work that has already started to bring the first results.

Helsingør and Helsingborg Border Walk for B - SHAPES

🚢🌍 On the 14th of May 2024, the University of Halmstad had an incredible experience with high school students of Helsingborg as part of our B-SHAPES Borders shape project!

StoryMap workshops with the local youth at the FI-SE border

From June 7th to June 9th, Fredriika Jakola and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola @unioulu finished the border walks and StoryMap workshops with the local youth at the FI-SE border.

First fieldwork in the Slovak-Hungarian borderland

On May 24, our member Péter Balogh (ELTE) successfully conducted the first field study in the Slovak-Hungarian borderland on behalf of B-Shapes.

B-SHAPES Annual Consortium Meeting

The third consortium meeting of the B-SHAPES project took place in Budapest, and the date of the assembly also marked a year since the project’s beginning.

Study visit to the Polish-Czech borderland

On 11-12th January 2024, a study visit, organized by Elżbieta Opiłowska (UWR) and Hynek Böhm (TUL) took place in Cieszyn (PL) and Český Těšín (CZ).

Opole conference

On 12th September a few members of our consortium gathered in Opole, Poland, to present their preliminary research during the “Borderlands facing a polycrisis in the 21st century” conference (co-organised by B-SHAPES work package leader, Elżbieta Opiłowska).

B-SHAPES panel in Island

At the 29th conference of Europeanists at the University of Iceland, held in June 2023, B-SHAPES’ PI Johanna Mitterhofer and Alice Engl from EURAC organized a B-Shapes-related panel.

WP3 visit at the Brunel University

In June 2023, the group working on the WP3 about Euroscepticism and populism in border regions held a project meeting at B-SHAPE's associated partner Brunel University, London.

Visit in Bulgaria in June

On the 5-6 June 2023, B-SHAPES coordinator Martin Klatt and the team from Lungomare visited the Bulgarian partner National History Museum.

Inaugural meeting

B-SHAPES held a kick-off meeting on 19-20 April 2023 in Sønderborg (DK), at the Alsion campus of University of Southern Denmark.