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Centre for Cross Border Cooperation
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Research, information & support for collaboration across borders on the island of Ireland, Europe & beyond. Our S2@25 project is supported by #PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. #crossborder #projects #research crossborder.ie
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Get involved in our latest research on cross-border insurance at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Have your premiums changed considerably since Brexit?

Does insurance affect how you deliver services & goods?

Does your cross-border partner look after the insurance for your project?

#research
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🎟️ Shared Island Innovators' Conference: 2 December

Aidan Campbell (Research Programme Development Manager, @crossborder.bsky.social) will join Celine McStravick (NICVA) and Suzie Cahn (The Wheel) to discuss innovative cross-border collaboration.

Tickets still available at wheel.ie/training/202...
Celine McStravick, CEO, Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action. Suzie Cahn, Shared Island Programmes Director, The Wheel.
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The latest article on our research platform is 'How community education can pave the way out of economic inactivity' by Claire Lavery, Knowledge & Communications Lead at the Centre for Effective Services. It sets out findings from 2 research projects on lone parents.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know.

Our self-guided course provides a framework on how to make the most of your cross-border project.

crossborder.ie/what-we-do/p...

Register at centre-for-cross-border-studies.learnworlds.com/course/getti...
Promotional flyer for the course that reads - Want your cross-border work to become core, not an ‘add-on’? For more information https://crossborder.ie.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The Community Connections and Well-being Project (CCWP), a €9.6 million cross-border PEACEPLUS initiative, has been launched in Monaghan. Read more: www.seupb.eu/latest/news/new-eu96-million-cross-border-mental-health-and-well-being-project-launched
Guests at the PEACEPLUS Community Connections and Well-being Project (CCWP) launch event in Monaghan
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Be policy aware.

Knowing the policy can help focus your funding, effort, and energy.

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Get started today: centre-for-cross-border-studies.learnworlds.com/course/getti...
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Ireland fears UK will drive migration through Belfast back door (remember in Brexit the Brexiteers concerned invisible border would mean non-EU nationals getting to UK over border into NI and over to GB. Turns out the other direction is the issue)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ireland to act if tougher asylum rules create Belfast back door for migration
Jim O’Callaghan says he will closely monitor changes proposed by Britain amid concerns over impact
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Cross-border research: survey on air fryers

Are you over 18, living on the island of Ireland and using an air fryer?

Safefood needs your help. The research survey will help the researchers understand how people use air fryers at home.

Get involved: cardiffmet.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The Safefood logo
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Show your impact.

The key to communicating successfully is defining your message, your audience, and your timeframe.

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Register for the 'Getting Started with Cross Border Collaboration' course today: centre-for-cross-border-studies.learnworlds.com/course/getti...
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The official word - Dundalk Institute of Technology to become a college of Queen's University Belfast www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...
#SpéirGhorm
Quite a mie on from our using ISDN lines to teach a Masters to Armagh.
Queen’s and Dundalk Institute of Technology to establish University College in Dundalk
The new University College of Queen's in Dundalk will expand education, research and cross-border collaboration to boost the Dublin–Belfast corridor.
www.qub.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Take time out to explore the issues, identify solutions, and define the impact.

Place cross-border work at the core of your project.

crossborder.ie/what-we-do/p...

Register for free: centre-for-cross-border-studies.learnworlds.com/course/getti...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Social media companies not co-operating with police, says PSNI Chief Constable
Social media companies not co-operating with police, says PSNI Chief Constable
Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly noted the role played by international social media actors in the recent disturbances at the Citywest Hotel
www.irishtimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Stop guessing. Keep your project on track with expert cross-border advice, support and resources on our self-guided course.

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Register for free: centre-for-cross-border-studies.learnworlds.com/course/getti...

#voluntarysector #communitysector #training #skills
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November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Quick survey on cross-border insurance

Are you involved in a cross-border project or service?

Have your premiums changed considerably since Brexit?

Does insurance affect how you deliver services & goods?

Are employees or volunteers impacted?

Is advice good?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Illustration of a loud speaker on a yellow background with a speech bubble that says - Quick Survey.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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'The World We Live In: Models & Perspectives of Cross-Border Cooperation in Central-Eastern Europe'

Last week, our Director Anthony Soares was in Bogdan Vodă University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to take part in a conference on cross-border cooperation on scientific, academic & economic collaboration.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Fascinating contributions about the level and quality of cross border cooperation combatting economic crime @CCBSCrossBorder
Quigley Lecture: Combatting economic crime on the island of Ireland - The Centre for Cross Border Cooperation | CBS crossborder.ie/news/quigley...
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Get involved 📢

We're examining cross-border insurance and would like to hear from businesses, community & voluntary sector organisations, social enterprises & local authorities

What impact has #Brexit had on your cross-border policy premiums?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union
Post-Brexit record in Irish passport applications from UK
Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Combatting economic crime on the island of Ireland: the work of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and An Garda Síochána

Commissioner Justin Kelly from An Garda Síochána & PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher gave a joint presentation at this year's Quigley Lecture.

crossborder.ie/news/quigley...
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Serious issue. Genuinely don't know what drives people to film incidents while people are clearly in need of help.

Road deaths: Call for crash videos and photos to be illegal in NI - BBC News
Road deaths: Call for crash videos and photos to be illegal in NI
Fiona Ferris was filmed giving CPR to Dominic McGrath, who died after being hit by a bus in Newry last December.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Leylandii and their look-a-likes, with Mark Duffell

Date for your diary: Tuesday 18 November, from 7-8pm

Identifying Cypress, Cupressus, Red-Cedar Thuja and other similar-looking conifers.

Organised by @bsbibotany.bsky.social, funded by @daera-ni.gov.uk

www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
Photo credit: Kim Lake, from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland registration page.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Our CEO Dearbháil Lawless and Head of Advocacy & Policy Conor Thompson spoke at the Oireachtas Committee on Further & Higher Education today, sharing evidence from apprentices across Ireland.

They called for fair supports, local access & modernised apprenticeships.

More here: shorturl.at/rJYRl
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Grants of up to £2,000 are available to support community initiatives that are making a real difference in towns and villages across Northern Ireland.

Apply to the Micro Community Investment Fund today.

https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/micro-community-investment-fund/
Apply to the Micro Community Investment Fund today.
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Read the latest article on the @crossborder.bsky.social research platform about the importance of community education and the wrap around support it offers in supporting people back into work, North and South.

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#research #community #education #support #work
How community education can pave the way out of economic inactivity - The Centre for Cross Border Cooperation
Share this page:  A public policy challenge that has vexed Governments in the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for many years is ‘economic inactivity’ – referring to the numbers of peo...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We're grateful to all the community & voluntary groups - & local authorities - that responded to our 19th quarterly survey on the Conditions for North-South & East-West Cooperation.

Watch the presentation, & read the report, on the findings at crossborder.ie/reports/brie...

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Photograph from Aidan and Ben's presentation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM