Exzellenzlabor Europa 2025

Internationaler Workshop: "European inequalities across borders: dividing and integrating processes "

Das 5. Exzellenzlabor Europa fand vom 8. bis 11. Oktober 2025 in der Villa Vigoni statt und widmete sich dem Thema der Ungleichheiten in grenzüberschreitenden Regionen in Europa. Diese Ungleichheiten, die durch die jüngsten politischen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Krisen verstärkt wurden, stellen die langfristigen Ziele der Europäischen Union in Bezug auf die wirtschaftliche, soziale und territoriale Kohäsion in Frage. Ziel des multidisziplinären Workshops war es, innereuropäische Grenzregionen und ihre verschiedenen Dimensionen grenzüberschreitender Ungleichheiten zu untersuchen, um so die Interdependenzen zwischen koexistierenden Ungleichheiten als Effekte oder Bedingungen von Integrationsprozessen über (nationale) Grenzen in Europa hinweg zu entschlüsseln.

Die Veranstaltung wrude gemeinsam von Dr. Ulla Connor (Postdoktorandin im Nachwuchskolleg Europa) und Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carola Fricke (Humangeographie mit europäischem Schwerpunkt) organisiert. 

Programm

9. Oktober 2025

Border permeability and inequalities across European border areas: a retrospective study (1950–2020)
Andrzej Jakubowski, Piotr Rosik &Tomasz Komornicki

Minorities in border regions representing inequality, or promoting a process to equality? Some lessons from B-SHAPES
Martin Klatt

Social inequalities in Europe‘s border regions – the example of the coal and steel crisis in the Saar-Lor-Lux region
Birgit Metzger

Inequalities and cross-border care ecologies: the case of early childhood education and care in the greater region SaarLorLux
Sabine Bollig

Towards the generalization of sociospatial inequalities in the Greater Region?
Alexis Gumy, Antoine Decoville &Frédéric Durand

Mobility injustice and agency: how crises unveil border asymmetries
Elifcan Karacan

Transit-oriented development (TOD) in asymmetrical cross-border contexts
Flore Guichot

Turbulence, resilience, and everydayness in borderlands: tackling cross-border imbalances in three Italian borderlands
Alice Buoli, Raffaella Coletti & Ingrid Kofler

Exploring the polycrisis – borderscape nexus in Adriatic micro-islands
Isabella Traeger

The ongoing re-bordering process and growing inequalities in the peripheral borderlands. Insights from the Polish borderlands with Belarus
Dominika Studzińska

10. Oktober 2025

Asymmetry as a framework for understanding cross-border inequalities: conceptualization and empirical insights from the German-Polish borderland
Jarosław Jańczak

Bridging gaps of different sizes and kinds: Is political asymmetry mitigated by institutional integration?
Tobias Heyduk

Managing legal and institutional inequalities in the France-Spain border: the case of the Basque cross border area
Iban Larrandaburu 

The paradox of integrating and dividing processes: A comparative dynamic mapping for cross-border inequalities through the INTERREG projects in the EU
Ahmed Osama Abdelhamid Bakry

Old narratives, new realities: The emerging mismatch of border inequalities and their policy discourses in Central and Eastern Europe
Ferenc Gyuris & Andrzej Jakubowski

Thinking Europe differently: challenging European inequalities through literary representations from Euro-Caribbean countries
Tobias Schank

Kontakt

Dr. Florian Rossbach
Campus C5 3, Raum 2.23
Tel. +49 (0)681-302-70454
florian.rossbach(at)uni-saarland.de