scholarly journals Dynamika nadlokálneho a lokálneho v každodennosti života na hranici (na príklade regiónu Kysuce)

Český lid ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-370
Author(s):  
Ivana Kontriková Šusteková
Keyword(s):  
Border Studies ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Cultural Transfer ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Specialization ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Border studies (currently also cross-border cooperation issues) is an interdisciplinary research specialization. The aim of the article is to present the spatial proximity influence of the state border on the everyday life reality of inhabitants of the Kysuce region in the 20th Century (overlapping with the present day) in both the local and supra-local context. With reference to the theory of the Irish sociologist Liam O'Dowd, it focuses on the Slovak state borders with Poland and the Czech Republic as a possible barrier, but also a bridge, a source of opportunities and a symbol of identity. It points out that in the villages bordering the Polish and Czech territories there has always been a relatively intensive mutual cultural transfer and contact of populations and therefore the borders cannot be perceived as an exclusively geopolitical phenomenon; their social and cultural dimension must be taken into account.

scholarly journals Borders and resilience: Asylum seeker reception at the securitized Finnish-Swedish border

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110000
Author(s):  
Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The past decade has witnessed a shift from “open borders” policies and cross-border cooperation towards heightened border securitization and the building of border walls. In the EU context, since the migration influx of 2015–2016, many Member States have retained the re-instituted Schengen border controls intended to be temporary. Such heightened border securitization has produced high levels of anxiety among various populations and increased societal polarization. This paper focuses on the processes underpinning asylum seeker reception at the re-bordered Finnish-Swedish border and in the Finnish border town of Tornio. The asylum process is studied from the perspective of local authorities and NGO actors active in the everyday reception, care and control practices in the border securitization environment enacted in Tornio in 2015. The analysis highlights how the ‘success’ of everyday reception work at the Tornio border crossing was bound to the historical openness of the border and pre-existing relations of trust and cooperation between different actors at various scales. The paper thus provides a new understanding of the significance of borders and border crossings from the perspective of resilience and highlights some of the paradoxes of border securitization. It notes that although border closures are commonly envisioned as a direct response to forced migration, the everyday practices and capacities of the asylum reception at the Finnish-Swedish border are themselves highly dependent on pre-existing border crossings and cross-border cooperation.

Cross-border cooperation in the Czech-Austrian borderland

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Budiak ◽  
B. A. Giter ◽  
E. A. Grechko
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

After WWII the transformation of the Czech-Austrian borderlands is connected with destruction of single ethno-cultural and economic space, lengthy period of the border impenetrability, social and economic backwardness of the borderlands. That period of Czech-Austrian relations has had lasting impact, strengthening the mental borders between the Austrian and the Czech that slows the recovery of the ties. The Czech-Austrian interaction within the framework of euroregions play a significant role in the revival of relationships. Among the existing in the Czech Republic euroregions with the participation of Austria (Shumava, Pomoraví, Silva Nortica), only Silva Nortica completely based on bilateral Czech-Austrian cooperation for the sustainable development of border areas. The article examines causes and consequences of the Czech-Austrian ties destruction, as well as the process of their recovery using the case of the Euroregion Silva Nortica. In the paper, we showed the importance of non-economic factors in the development of cross-border cooperation. Despite significant progress in the economic relations between Austria and the Czech Republic, especially in trade and tourism, the interaction in the borderlands remains low. To enhance this interaction, the countries attempts to create new “points of attraction” by consolidation of public services, for example, fire department within the euroregions

scholarly journals The Role of Cross-Border Cooperation in Modernising Public Administration (Experience of the Trnava Region, Slovakia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
E. I. Haydanka
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cooperation Model ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The former post-socialist countries have become examples of the institutional transformation of public administration systems. An indispensable element of optimising public administration is intensification of cross-border cooperation and implementation of joint sustainable development programmes in the cross-border regions.It has been found that an efficient cross-border cooperation model in Slovakia was introduced after joining the European Union. The financial support within the Interreg EU programme, implemented during 2007–2013 (Interreg IV) and 2014–2010 (Interreg V), has played an essential role. It has been proved that the most effective model is the cross-border cooperation model in Trnava Region, territorially implemented with the neighbouring regions of Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. It has been determined that the main directions of cross-border cooperation in the Trnava self-governing region are realization of joint socio-economic programmes (strategies of economic growth and regional employment, cultural and educational projects, transport system, etc.) as well as cooperation between municipal administrations on the issues of administrative systems optimization. It has been proved that the vast share of European financial resources (for instance, the European Regional Development Fund), aimed at the development of regional cooperation, should, above all, bridge the administrative resource gap between urban and rural areas and ensure that local communities have free and equal access to administrative resources.The traditions of effective cross-border cooperation between the Trnava self-governing region and respective cross-border regions of the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary have been prolonged in the format of the European Interreg V Consolidation Programme for the period of 2014-2010. Cross-border projects are usually implemented for a period of 1–2 years, being aimed at fortifying intercultural ties on the neighbour territories. In Trnava Region it is strategically important to intensify cross-border cooperation in order to increase inter-institutional cooperation at the level of municipal administrations as well as strengthen cross-border ties at the level of population.The correlation of strategic goals with the outcomes of cross-border cooperation with Euroregions, while retaining substantial financial support from the EU structures, is among the priority tasks.

scholarly journals Uwarunkowania i formy instytucjonalnej polsUwarunkowania i formy instytucjonalnej polsko-czeskiej współpracy transgranicznej = Conditioning and forms of institutional cooperation across the Polish-Czech border

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Lewkowicz
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Cooperation ◽  
Functional Nature ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The social and political transitions taking place in Central and Eastern Europe post-1989 allowed Poland to develop cross-border cooperation with neighbouring counties. At local-government level in particular, the Czech Republic then became a key partner. Today, the Polish-Czech borderland resembles those between Poland and Germany, and between Poland and Slovakia, in constituting a model example of innovative cross-border cooperation. While the area first played hosted to Euroregions, it later also fell within European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation. And while collaboration between one local authority and another over the border has evolved particularly dynamically, as-yet untapped potential would seem to remain. Overall, this article seeks to analyse the actors currently operating across the Polish-Czech border, from a political-science perspective. These are Euroregions (of Nysa, Glacensis, Pradziad, Silesia, Cieszyn Silesia and the Beskids), as well as European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (of Tritia and Novum), and selected units at local government level. The analysis of the transboundary entities, and those engaging in cross-border activity was of a genetic, structural and functional nature, and this facilitated the identification of similarities and differences between the actors concerned, making clear what their specifics are, and what the prospects for cooperation.

scholarly journals Socio-Geographical Conditions of the Děčín District

Geografie ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-172
Author(s):  
Milan Jeřábek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The northerly Bohemian district is presented in this article. Selected topics are examined in a more detailed way. The historical introduction portrays the region's socio-economic development with industrialisation and transport network as key factors. Both chronological and territorial approaches are used. Changing conditions in 1970, 198O, and in the beginning of 1990's are examined. The region is also studied in the framework of the Czech Republic. Internal differences are shown, mainly in the field of population, economic activity, settlement structure, housing, industry, transportation, tourism, and cross-border cooperation.

scholarly journals Role of Competences of Graduates in Building Innovations via Knowledge Transfer in the Part of Carpathian Euroregion

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10592
Author(s):  
Magdalena M. Stuss ◽  
Zbigniew J. Makieła ◽  
Izabela Stańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Quantitative Description ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Key Competences ◽  
Cognitive Gaps ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Cross-border cooperation within the framework of the Carpathian Euroregion provides the possibility of building the processes of education at universities that would facilitate knowledge transfer from the universities to the business sphere, which is particularly significant in terms of forming innovations. The aim of the research conducted was the analysis of the key competences that have an impact on the level of innovativeness of the graduates of the universities of a business profile in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. In the methodology used, a systematic literary review of the acquired references from the databases of ProQuest, Emerald, SCOPUS, and the Jagiellonian Library was applied from the outset. Subsequently, a small number of foreign and Polish research works conducted in the sphere of the stipulated subject matter of the competences of graduates, as well as their innovativeness were identified and ascertained. This facilitated the specification of the cognitive gaps as follows: There was no prior research relating to the Carpathian Euroregion and the transnational cooperation, with particular consideration given to the role of graduates of universities in terms of shaping change in this area. In empirical research, a survey method was chosen as it enabled, among other things, the quantitative description of specific aspects declared as the competences of graduates in the chosen research group. The research conducted reveals that there are no stipulated ways of ranking the essential competences directed at innovativeness, thus the decision-makers at the universities in the Carpathian Euroregion must consider what way and what activities they may use to connect the development of competences. The results acquired and the conclusions drawn may serve the transfer and adoption of good practices from individual countries and regions to other European and non-European ones.

scholarly journals Határon átnyúló kultúragazdaság integrált fejlesztése a magyar-szlovák határon

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-169
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Specific Project ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Based on the experiences of a specific project development work, this study seeks to answer why there have not been many successful projects targeting the valorization of cultural heritage at the Hungarian-Slovak border which have resulted in a stronger cohesion of the borderland. It also examines how similar initiatives in the future could contribute to this aim. For this purpose, the authors first provide an overview of the major issue-relevant conclusions of border studies literature, with special emphasis on the topic of subjective (especially cultural) distance. Subsequently, they examine the values and mistakes of the INTERREG programmes supporting cross-border cooperation, highlighting the necessity of integrated developments. In the third part of the study, based on the experiences gained from the INTERREG EUROPE projekt called WAVE targeting the valorization of water-based cultural heritage and implemented with the participation of the Ister–Granum EGTC, as well as the territorial action plans applied by the Slovakia-Hungary INTERREG V-A programme, they make a proposal on the cross-border integrated development of cultural economy.

scholarly journals Researching cross-border cooperation under the shadow of COVID 19 pandemic: scientific report from e-conferences and blog-reflections produced between 14 March and 21 June 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Hynek Böhm
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The aim of this paper is to try to summarize, how, the scholars researching border studies and cross-border cooperation practitioners reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period from 16 of March to 21 of June 2020. As it was not possible to follow all the texts (often published without peer-review in thematic blogs) and events, the overview is not exhausting. Another goal of this text is to synthesize the main messages of those texts and events and to identify possible future trends in border studies. We will most likely experience the discourse change which will lead us towards studying impacts of re-bordering rather than de-bordering. We can also expect the lower engagement of the local and regional actors in cross-border cooperation, which will be in some border contexts considered as an unnecessary luxury.

scholarly journals Cross-Border Cooperation as Part of the Irish Peace Process: Opportunities, Impacts And Challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Pollak
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Institutional Cooperation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
The Impact ◽  
North And South ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

Cross-border cooperation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland emerging out of the 1968–1998 conflict is an important and largely successful dimension of the peace process in Ireland, with institutional cooperation between the two governments on the island playing a key role. This article looks at the level of interaction between North and South on the island; asks what role the EU has played in this process and what are the challenges of measuring the impact of such cooperation; outlines the work of the Centre for Cross Border Studies, and looks ahead to the challenges facing cross-border cooperation in a period of severe financial and economic constraints.

Approaches to the Definition of Cross-Border Cooperation: Discussion Points

10.15535/280 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Tkachenko ◽  
Vladislav Pustova
Keyword(s):  
Cross Border ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation
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