Objectives

Theoretical Framework

Participants

Project Management

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Description of the Participants

Free University of Berlin (Germany)
FUB is a multidisciplinary working group incorporated within the Department of Geography at the free University of Berlin. Presently it encompasses various aspects of urban and regional development and planning.

Name:

Dr. James W. Scott (Project Coordinator)

Phone:

49 30 83870169
49 30 83870201

Fax:

49 30 76706435

E-mail:

jscott(at)geog.fu-berlin.de

Website:

www.fu-berlin.de


Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (Estonia)
CTC is an international non-profit institute which works to promote sustainable development and cross border cooperation in the border areas of the Baltic States and the New Independent States.

Name:

Dr. Gulnara Roll
Margit Säre

Phone:

372 7 302 302

Fax:

372 7 302 301

E-mail:

Gulnara.Roll(at)ctc.ee Margit.Sare(at)ctc.ee

Website:

www.ctc.ee

 

The Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (Netherlands)
The Nijmegen Centre for Border Research is an academic research centre within the Nijmegen School of Management of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The centre has an international reputation for its theoretically- informed, empirically- grounded and politically- engaged research on territoriality and borders, bordering, debordering and (cross-) border regions. The Nijmegen Centre of Border Research holds the co-editorship of the Journal of Borderlands Studies (JBS)

Name:

Dr. Henk van Houtum

Phone:

31 24 3612725

Fax:

31 24 3611841

E-mail:

H.vanHoutum(at)nsm.kun.nl

Website:

www.kun.nl/ncbr


University of Joensuu (Finland)
UJOEs task is to carry out basic and applied research into the intellectual and material development of Eastern Finland and Karelia.

Name:

Dr. Ilkka Liikanen

Phone:

358 13 251 111

Fax:

358 13 251 2472

E-mail:

Ilkka.Liikanen(at)joensuu.fi

Website:

www.joensuu.fi/ktl


University of Tartu (Estonia)
UT is concentrated in two aspects, one is the negotiations with Russia over the border, and the other refers to socio-economic cultural and political conditions of the borderlands.

Name:

Dr. Eiki Berg

Phone:

372 7 375311

Fax:

372 7 375154

E-mail:

berg(at)cie.ut.ee

Website:

www.ut.ee


Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies (Hungary)
CRS is concentrated in the development of cross-border relations on Hungarian-Romanian and Hungarian Ukrainian boundaries.

Name:

Dr. Béla Baranyi

Phone:

36 52 508 327

Fax:

36 52 508 327

E-mail:

baranyib(at)rkk.hu

Website:

www.mta.hu


University of Thessaly (Greece)
UTH is concentrated in regional economic development and policy, urban and regional planning, transportation planning, public administration and policy, geography and methods of analysis, social and environmental issues.

Name:

Dr. George Petrakos

Phone:

30 4210 74468

Fax:

30 4210 74285

E-mail:

petrakos(at)uth.gr

Website:

www.uth.gr


University of Warsaw (Poland)
EUROREG is an interdisciplinary research and educational institution specializing in regional and local studies and policies. The institute carries out research on the transformation processes in Central and Eastern European countries and conducts comparative studies of the development of science and technology.

Name:

Dr. Grzegorz Gorzelak

Phone:

48 22 826 16 54

Fax:

48 22 826 21 68

E-mail:

gorzelak(at)post.pl

Website:

www.uw.edu.pl