"Binational Cities and Their Regions"

Nijmegen University, the Netherlands

Organising Committee: Prof Jan Buursink/Prof Frans Boekema/Drs Nicole Ehlers, Nijmegen University

Wednesday september 27th, 2000

9.00h. Registration and coffee/tea

9.30h. Welcome by the Chairman

9.45h. Prof Jan Buursink: General introduction/Setting the Scene for Binational Cities and their Regions

10.30h. Discussion (Dr Olivier Kramsch)

11.00h. Break/coffee/tea

11.30h. Prof Frank-Dieter Grimm: Binational Cities and their Regions in the Polish-German border-region.

12.15h. Discussion (Dr Henk van Houtum)

12.45h. - 14.15h. Lunch and Poster-presentations

14.15h. Prof Glen Sparrow: The Binational City and Region San Diego-Tijuana

15.00h. Discussion (Dr Martin van der Velde)

15.30h. Break/coffee/tea

16.00h. Prof Christiaan Wichman Mathiessen: Bridging Waters and Borders, Potential Integration of Copenhagen and Malmö-Lund.

16.45h. Discussion (Dr Wolfgang Zierhofer)

17.15h. Closing of the day

Thursday september 28th, 2000

9.30h. Dr Odile Heddebaut: The Binational City and Region Dover-Calais

10.15h. Discussion (Dr Wolfgang Zierhofer)

10.45h. Break/coffee/tea

11.15h. Prof Yehuda Gradus: The Binational city and Region Eilat and Aqaba

12.00h. Discussion (Dr Martin van der Velde)

12.30h. - 14.00h. Lunch and Poster-presentations

14.00h. Prof Georges Allaert: The Binational City and Region Lille/Kortrijk

14.45h. Discussion (Dr. Olivier Kramsch)

15.15h. Break/coffee/tea

15.45h. Drs Nicole Ehlers: The Binational City Kerkrade-Herzogenrath.

16.05h. Drs Thijs Wöltgens (former Mayor of the City Kerkrade): The reality of EURODE (the first real 'European city') from a daily-life perspective.

16.35h. Discussion (Dr Henk van Houtum)

17.15h. Closing of the seminar

17.30h. Drinks

The papers of this Seminar have been published in a Special Issue of GeoJournal.

©  NCBR, Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands