This month I had the great pleasure to welcome at the Università di Trento a multidisciplinary group of scholars to discuss timely research on „Police Cooperation and EU Integration“. This was the main event organized within my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research „Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders“, financed by HorizonEurope.
For now, I simply want to express a huge thank you to all participants – speakers, attending students, SIS colleagues and staff. It was my pleasure and honor to provide the space for our discussions! Christian Kaunert, Saskia Hufnagel, Toine Spapens, Nils Filius, Vanessa Ugolini, Alessandra Russo.
The next day, the UniGR-Center for Border Studies and the European Migration Network (EMN) Luxembourg hosted the Conference „40 years of Schengen: People, Borders, Politics“. While celebrating the Schengen anniversary, the impressive line-up of speakers critically assessed if control at the internal Schengen borders is „calling into question the European achievements of open borders“.
I take the occasion to share two infographics previously published on the blog of the UniTrento School of International Studies: in a new full-page English version, “Schengen: quo vadis?”
My thanks to the ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, area Knowledge Visualization, for providing me in my MSCA project with the opportunity to learn how to bring the skills and the value of science and knowledge visualization closer into the field of social science research and dissemination (Michael Stuenzi, Daniel Röttele, Niklaus Heeb). I am learning and of course any shortcomings are mine.
Why this? In the 1995 landmark publication Policing the European Union, Malcolm Anderson, Monica den Boer et al remarked how the development of “new forms of law enforcement co-operation for a ‘borderless Europe'” is not just a matter of administrative and legal technicalities, but that this is about so much more! And yet, how to translate technicalities ACROSS disciplines; and how to translate those research elements that DO matter to the public, TO the wider public?
“Schengen: quo vadis” (I) is a first contextual output of more infographics and visualizations to come and which will be part of a visual research output on this homepage.
Curious? Stay tuned!
LEmobAB – Law Enforcement Mobilities Across Borders. Funded by the European Commission, HORIZON 2021, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Grant Agreement No 101063837.
