 | Small
Scale European Integration through
Cross-Border Cooperation |
| Part
I: | Small
Scale European Integration through Cross-Border-Cooperation, 2009,
Landau (D) | | Part
II: | Investigating
EU‘s external borders, 2010, Joensuu (FIN) | | Part
III: | Changing
dynamics of transboundary relations at EU’s post-external borders,
2011, Słubice (PL) |
To
get the related project documents of the specific SEICOP projects,
please
follow the links above. | Topic | | The project puts emphasis on the
idea of border areas being
regions where the quality of cross-border and transnational cooperation
can be studied in a very good way, providing at the same time general
results about supporting and hindering factors for effective,
sustainable European integration. The main objective is to learn about
current scientific knowledge on European border areas and to study
“small scale” cross-border-practice of cooperation and daily life in
selected regions (German-French, Finnish-Russian and German-Polish
border). |
| Learning Outcome | | The IP gave students of all
participating universities an added value by focusing on and comparing
different European borders. The course enhanced their abilities to work
with issues dealing with European integration and cross-border
cooperation on an EU or national level in the future. The students were
enabled to draw proper regional comparisons and critically discuss
whether local developments are of very individual character or if they
can be transfered to judge and predict development tendencies in other
regions of similar structure. |
| Impacts | | The I.P.-course produced
multidisciplinary knowledge about cross-border issues and deepened the
students‘ understanding of a highly European topic. The
docents gained experience in teaching in a multidisciplinary and
international context in English language. |
| Network | - Universität
Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Demographieforschung &
Anthropogeographie (D)
- University of Eastern
Finland, Joensuu, Department of Geography (FIN)
- Adam-Mickiewicz-University,
Poznań, Institute of Geography (PL)
- Université de
Strasbourg, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (F)
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| Method | | The I.P. course had a
multi-methodological approach in teaching. Lectures, seminar style
teaching-units, excursions and moderated working groups were mixed
all over the course. Empirical field work was carried out by the
participants with a final workshop for evaluation and publication of
the findings. This approach showed good results and proved to be
motivating for the students. |
| Results | | Tangible results of the I.P. are
the project reports of student’s work groups on various topics in daily
cross-border-cooperation. The intensive course will also lead
to a final publication in early 2013. Furthermore, selected results of
the I.P.’s working groups were already included in scientific
publications and conferences or talks. Moreover the results of SEICOP
have been announced and distributed to local initiatives from politics
as well as from civil society (NGO’s, arts), which have been included
in the programme in order to ensure the interdisciplinarity of the
project. |
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