B-Shapes

31/03/2026

Today is the last day of B-SHAPES - or is it?
Our project was funded for three years and officially finishes today.
But don't worry - we will continue to inform you here about what is happening in the network, and, most important, about upcoming publications, events etc.

On our website, you can now download all policy briefs, our summary policy recommendations and our policy book Seeing Europe from the Border:
https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/b-shapes/results/policybriefs

You can also take our online course and learn why B-SHAPES matters for you, too:

https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/b-shapes/results/online-course

11/03/2026

B-SHAPES has just released our practical tool Inclusive Approaches to Heritage Management in Borderlands - a booklet with simple solutions to manage and present heritage avoiding national traps.

https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/b-shapes/results/heritagemanagementplan

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Inclusive approaches to heritage management (not only) in borderlands

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

Impressions from our final conference

27/02/2026

Book of abstracts of our conference next week is out:

Join us for our conference in March in Warsaw

23/02/2026

Preliminary program of our final conference in Warsaw, 5-6 March, is out:
https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/b-shapes/final-conference

Please register if you like to attend

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Join us for our conference in March in Warsaw

14/02/2026

Last week, Péter Balogh (ELTE) presented B-Shapes's WP4 results at a conference in Pécs. The audience was fascinated by the methods and findings, identifying some parallels to other border regions

11/02/2026

The South Tyrol German language programme of RAI has a feature on B-SHAPES' partner Lungomare Bozen-Bolzano's exhibition Through the Prism of Borders.

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Gleich vier Exponent*innen der Interessens-Gemeinschaft sind live bei Hannes Hölzl im Forum Kultur zu Gast: Mirijam Obwexer, Judith Daporta, Matteo Da Col und Tobias Dell'Antonio.]]>

04/02/2026

' research has policy relevance. Therefore, we have published a book on policy insights from our research with Halmstad University Press, edited by Sara Svensson, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz and Martín Guillermo Ramírez.

Borders In Globalization Cultural Border Studies Centre for Border Region Studies
Free download here:

03/02/2026

Happy to share this report of one of the participants of our winter school for practitioners working with heritage in borderlands organized by our partner Halmstad University last week!

From 28 to 31 January 2026, the B-SHAPES Winter School “Inclusive Policy-Making in European Borderlands – Culture, Landscape and Minorities” brought together a small group of early-career and practitioner participants at Halmstad University in Sweden. The Winter School was designed as an inten...

23/01/2026

On 20 January, SDU arranged a policy workshop, where young borderlanders discussed their border life experiences with regional stakeholders of cross-border cooperation.