The chapter investigates the state of the art and prospects for integration of the «cross-border living areas» across the border shared by Italy and France.

The edited volume investigates the state of the art and future prospects of Italian–French cross-border cooperation.

Our team participated in the ECBP Annual Event 2025 on European cross-border territorial cooperation, held in Gorizia and Nova Gorica (IT–SI), from November 13 to 14, 2025.

The workshop “European Inequalities Across Borders: Dividing and Integrating Processes”, part of the research project Exzellenzlabor Europa 2025 was held at Villa Vigoni, Italy, from October 8 to 11, 2025.

Our team took part in the thematic session “Ripensare insieme lo spazio pubblico nelle aree marginali” during the VIII Biennial of Public Space, held in Rome, Italy, on September 19, 2025.

Our team organized the thematic session “Policrisi e territori di confine: geografie e spazialità in transizione”, which examines the nexus between polycrisis and borderscapes, in the context of the XXXIV International Geographical Congress (CGI), held in Turin, Italy, from September 3 to 5, 2025.

We participated in the International Conference Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) at the University of Central Lancashire in Pyla (Cyprus).

Our team organised the research seminar at the Politecnico di Milano on 26 March 2025, fostering a dialogue on the map-power-action nexus in border areas. Read the story!

Our team organized the co-design workshop in Gorizia–Nova Gorica–Šempeter-Vrtojba to rethink the future(s) of the Italo-Slovenian borderscape with the local stakeholders.

Our team organized the co-design workshop in Innichen–San Candido (IT) to rethink the future(s) of the Italo-Austrian borderscape with the local stakeholders.

The Politecnico di Milano hosted the XXVII Società Italiana degli Urbanisti (SIU) National Conference “Publicness: Le sfide della dimensione pubblica nelle città e nei territori”.

Our team participated in the UNISCAPE Landscape Festival at the University of Nova Gorica, part of the Official programme of GO!2025 ECoC.

Our team participated to the 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference at the University of Trento (IT).

Raffaella Coletti was invited to participate to the international conference at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue in Villa Vigoni.

Our team organized the co-design workshop in Bardonecchia/Bardonnèche (IT) to rethink the future(s) of the Italo-French borderscape with the local stakeholders.

Our team is pleased to invite you to the research seminar Narrating Transformation in Marginal Territories: Transdisciplinary and Action-Oriented Perspectives, which will be held in hybrid mode on June 10th, 2025, at the Institute for Regional Development Eurac Research in Bozen/Bolzano.

Part of our team participated in the B-Shapes International Summer School on borders and Europe at the Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy).

Our team organised joint seminars in Trentino and Bozen/Bolzano on May 15-16, 2025, which included an excursion and a film screening. Read the story!

Our team is pleased to invite you to the two-days joint seminars “Resilience and Dynamics at Italian Borderscapes” in Trentino and Bozen-Bolzano.

Our team will present “Mapping Turbulence, Resilience and Everyday in Borderlands” at the research seminar held at Eurac Research in Bozen-Bolzano.

Our team travelled to Gorizia and Nova Gorica to participate to the Interreg GO! Annual Event.