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B-Shapes: Through the Prism of Borders

How can borderlands shape the perceptions of society? Find out in the new publication by Lungomare.

Planning for the last year of B-SHAPES

B-SHAPES' consortium meeting hosted by our partner National Museum of History on 8-9 April 2025 was devoted to the communication and dissemination activities happening in our last year, (...)

B-SHAPES’ StoryMaps are out!

B-SHAPES’ StoryMaps are out! The digitized StoryMaps present the results of the border landscape walks conducted in WP5 (Borderlandscapes as Heritage).

Forth Policy Brief released!

Our fourth policy brief Cultural and cultural heritage policies scrutinizes cultural heritage policies, giving recommendations to actors in the heritage industry (...)

Third Policy Brief released!

News: B-SHAPES’ third policy brief Recognition of border landscapes as shared heritage is now ready!

B-SHAPES at several European conferences in summer and autumn 2024

B-SHAPES researchers have been disseminating the first results of the B-SHAPES research at different European conferences in summer and autumn 2024.

First academic publication out: Borders and tourism – an important relationship

This co-authored article of B-SHAPES WP5 researchers Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Fredriika Jakola, Tomas Nilson and Sara Svensson problematizes tourism destination development (...)

Second Policy Brief released!

Our second Policy Brief on minority media and their narratives on borders and Europe is out! It gives some advice how media can diversify voices in reporting, emphasize human stories and better highlight the EU’s role in local contexts.

The end of August marks the deadline of the B-SHAPES first reporting period (April 2023 - June 2024)

... and yes – we do have much to report! The first fifteen months of the project have been full of introductory work that has already started to bring the first results.

StoryMap workshops with the local youth at the FI-SE border

From June 7th to June 9th, Fredriika Jakola and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola @unioulu finished the border walks and StoryMap workshops with the local youth at the FI-SE border.

First fieldwork in the Slovak-Hungarian borderland

On May 24, our member Péter Balogh (ELTE) successfully conducted the first field study in the Slovak-Hungarian borderland on behalf of B-Shapes.

B-SHAPES Annual Consortium Meeting

The third consortium meeting of the B-SHAPES project took place in Budapest, and the date of the assembly also marked a year since the project’s beginning.

Visit in Bulgaria in June

On the 5-6 June 2023, B-SHAPES coordinator Martin Klatt and the team from Lungomare visited the Bulgarian partner National History Museum.

B-SHAPES first deliverables have now been approved!

They include our dissemination, exploitation and communication plan, study reports (...)