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16/09/2009
President Backs Border Studies Centre
This week saw a high-level reception taking place to honour the work of an important cross-border organisation.
The event, at Áras an Uachtaráin, was led by President Mary McAleese to recognise the Centre for Cross Border Studies, an important but largely unheralded organisation.
She was told that it has brought together more than 4,000 people for North-South conferences, commissioned nearly 70 cross-border research projects in areas such as health, education, training, the economy, local government, EU funding and immigration abd carried out education and research work with the nine Irish universities.
It was also responsibe for setting up practical websites and cross-border data bases for workers, commuters and investors and even trained 150 civil servants from the two jurisdictions in North-South co-operation.
(BMcC/GK)
The event, at Áras an Uachtaráin, was led by President Mary McAleese to recognise the Centre for Cross Border Studies, an important but largely unheralded organisation.
She was told that it has brought together more than 4,000 people for North-South conferences, commissioned nearly 70 cross-border research projects in areas such as health, education, training, the economy, local government, EU funding and immigration abd carried out education and research work with the nine Irish universities.
It was also responsibe for setting up practical websites and cross-border data bases for workers, commuters and investors and even trained 150 civil servants from the two jurisdictions in North-South co-operation.
(BMcC/GK)
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