Hynek Böhm

Technical University of Liberec | TUL · Department of Geography

Cross-border co-operation (CBC) is a prominent form of secondary foreign policy, implemented by local/regional actors and serving as a tool for overcoming the barriers arising from state borders. Many borders are areas of former conflicts, including territory of Euroregion Tesin/Cieszyn Silesia. Our goal is to analyse whether this Euroregion acts a...

The Czech-Polish border is almost 800 kilometres long. Since 1991, 6 Euroregions and two European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) were created and have been conducting cross-border cooperation (CBC) along the entire length of the border. This was probably also the institutionalisation of cross-border cooperation , what has helped to rea...

Cross-border public services are considered to be one of the possible tools to eliminate the periphery position of border regions. The Czech part of the Gmünd/ ˇ Ceské Velenice divided twin town faces the problem of very distant healthcare, as the closest hospital on its side of the border is at around a 50 min car-drive, whereas the hospital in Au...

The chapter deals with borders and cross-border co-operation in Europe from a perspective of political sciences. It is a part of collective publication presenting CBC from multiple social sciences perspectives.

The territory of Těšín Silesia was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1920. This artificial division forced about 200 000 non-Czech first language speakers – 64 000 of them declared themselves to be Poles - to become Czechoslovak citizens. Almost 90 years afterwards only 26 000 inhabitants declared Polish nationality during the last censu...

Evaluation of cross-border cooperation in Czechia since 1993: Euroregions on the way to authentic cross-border regions? Thirty years of existence of independent Czechia are connected with growing cross-border cooperation (CBC) with neighboring states and decreasing importance of national borders. The accession to the EU meant a giant leap towards d...

Background: The study concerns the intergovernmental dispute between the Polish and the Czech governments on the planned Turów coalmine expansion and its impact on the cross-border cooperation between the Polish and the Czech entities, particularly in the sphere of cross-border partnerships conducting microprojects financially supported by the INTE...

The article focuses on the impact of the new re-bordering, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, on the functional, ideational and institutional dimension of cross-border integration, as perceived by the Czech cross-border commuters employed on the German side of the Euroregion Elbe Labe. The interviews with forty cross-commuters showed that they were l...

The article asks whether the divided town Cieszyn-Český Těšín can be considered a joint "living space" in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. It evaluates the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of the daily lives of the inhabitants and institutions of both parts of this divided town. Three main dimensions of cross-border integration were st...

Nejdříve jsou představeny výzkumné metody, které byly při zpracování analýzy použity. Následuje část, ve které jsou představeny zjištěné dopady pandemie na hospodářský, společenský a administrativněprávní dopad pandemií způsobených omezení na přeshraniční spolupráci v Euroregionu Neisse-Nisa-Nysa, přičemž je zvláštní pozornost věnována dopadům pand...

The article examines the role of the Euroregions in the first Covid-19 pandemic wave in Europe. The beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 led to the closures of state borders. This complicated the situation of Polish cross-border commuters working in Germany and the Czech Republic. The border closure also showed the strength of Euroregion...

The text deals with the cross-border co-operation of universities as a possible new research topic in border studies. We identified two important associations of universities operating in border areas in the EU core and two associations gathering universities from Czech, Polish and Slovak areas. Then we tried to identify the areas in which these un...

For many rural areas, tourism is an opportunity to improve local people's quality of life and prevent their migration to central regions. However, tourism also brings some negative effects to rural areas, which can cause some hostility among locals and visitors. These negative effects can arise for various reasons: it can be the ruthlessness of vis...

The paper observes an advent of unilateralism, brought by the pandemic, which has restricted cross-border flows and cooperation in the E.U. The pandemic reintroduced borders back in the E.U. and introduced new national border policies, which have complicated the lives of the people in the border regions. This might imply the imperfect communication...

Microprojects are an important part of Interreg programmes. This article presents areas of cooperation and categories of actors who have been active in submitting and implementing these microprojects in the Czech-Polish borderland. It identifies 11 thematic areas of microprojects, which mainly support people-to-people projects in the field of cultu...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to social behaviours in Europe. One of its major consequences was the temporary closure of borders, which was introduced as a measure to prevent the uncontrolled pandemic spreading and involved internal Schengen borders. This has had a major impact in the way in which cross-border cooperation has been cond...

There are some localities in the Bohemian Paradise Geopark that suffer from temporal overtourism in the high season. On the other hand, more than half of the geopark is not so often visited by tourists, although very attractive geosites can be found there too. In the most visited localities, nature is damaged due to overloading of the tourist infra...

English version follows (article is in Czech): Přeshraniční spolupráce v rámci evropské integrace je příběhem úspěchu. Pandemie COVID-19 způsobila uzavření vnitřní schengenské hranice, což způsobilo přeshraniční spolupráci komplikace. Cílem tohoto článku je seznámit své čtenáře s dopadem pandemie na Těšínsku. Cross-border co-operation is a success-...

Kniha pojednává o paradiplomatických aktivitách vybraných veřejných aktérů Moravskoslezského kraje. Konstatuje, že nejdůležitější formou paradiplomacie je přeshraniční spolupráce, která podtrhává evropský rozměr zahraničních vztahů zkoumaných subjektů Moravskoslezského kraje.

The aim of this paper is to try to summarize, how the scholars researching border studies and cross-border cooperation practitioners reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period from 16th of March to 21st of June 2020. As it was not possible to follow all the texts (often published without peer-review in thematic blogs) and events, the overvi...

On March 5, 2020 both authors co-organised a major international meeting on both sides of the well-known double town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín – on the Polish and the Czech side. The participants from the Polish-Czech borderlands and from other European border regions – in total from eleven countries – shared their ideas, fears and proposals for the f...

The chapter presents INTERREG programme and its people-to-people part as an important Europe-building tool.

Old maps, mainly from the period between 1890 and 1940, have been collected in the framework of the project “Old Maps of the Jizera Mountains”. These maps provide us with a complex picture, mainly of tourism, in this currently Czech–Polish territory. The territory of the Jizera Mountains was inhabited mainly by a German-speaking population on both...

The article discusses paradiplomatic activities of Moravia-Silesia in Czechia. The region, former seat of heavy industry, has hugely benefitted from the EU membership, which has helped to mitigate the consequences of economic restructuring. Yet the locals tend to have even more Eurosceptical opinions than the rest of Czechia. Research showed that t...

The goal of the case study was an analysis whether the institutionalisation of a cross-border cooperation – irrespective of the legal form of this institutionalisation – helps to make the cooperation more efficient in both financial as well as territorial integration terms. The cooperation between Moravian-Silesian and Žilina Regions under the TRIT...

Microprojects as an efficient cross-border co-operation tool. The article illustrates its principal use in the Czech-Polish Euroregion tesin/Cieszyn Silesia in 2007 - 2013 period. Overview brought in this article as well as current increasing eurosceptical and nationalistic movements in Europe underline the need to continue in efforts bringing peop...

Despite the Czech Republic hugely benefits from its EU membership, there is an euroscepticism on a major rise in the country. The article aims to identify whether there is any cause/or an appropriate answer to this trend in Czech schools and what instruments the teachers have to promote European values and educate towards Europeanism. The authors f...

V Evropské unii jsou i přes vytvořený jednotný vnitřní trh stále státní hranice mentální bariérou. Tuto bariéru je však možno do určité míry eliminovat prováděním přeshraniční spolupráce, která může vyústit až k vytváření přeshraničních regionů. Tyto přeshraniční regiony vytvářejí pro spolupráci své vlastní struktury governance. Cílem této práce je...

Tento článek popisuje trojstranný přeshraniční project Prameny spojují/Quellen verbinden, zahájený v roce 2016 a koordinovaný Technickou univerzitou v Liberci. Záměrem projektu je komplexní hydrochemické, hydrobiologické, hydrologické, geologické a humánně geografické zhodnocení souboru asi 40 pramenů v oblasti Liberec-Zittau, a to cestou vzdělávac...

The Euroregion Šumava-Bayerischer Wald/Unterer Inn-Mühlviertel is an example of the co-operation entity between “old” and “new” Europe, which was created in the first half of 1990´s. The euroregion is full of contrasts: whereas the population on German/Bavarian and Austrian side has been there rather stable and unchanged, the most of original (Germ...

Cross-border co-operation within the Danube Macroregion has mainly been based on the co-operation of subject at municipal levels, which have created euroregions. Only during last 10 years the co-operation entities on higher than municipal parameters started to appear, which is true also for Czech-Slovak border. Therefore, co-operation of Moravian-S...

Article compares the ways in which the cross-border co-operation between schools is conducted in three Euroregions on Czech-Polish borders. The main research methods were based on analysis of the microprojects, which were supported in all three euroregions. Research surprisingly declined initial hypothesis expecting the most frequent use of INTERRE...

State borders still constitute a mental barrier in the current EU, despite joint internal market was created. However this barrier can be partly eliminated by conducting a cross-border cooperation (CBC), which can result into creation of cross-border regions. These regions create their own governance structures. The research goal is critical evalua...

The article tries to answer the question what are the reasons for the difference between the number of leisure cyclists and cycle commuters from geographic point-of-view. It is based on results of questionnaire survey carried out in 2014 in Brno and surroundings, focusing on the geographic aspects of the perceived barriers for commuting. However, t...

One of the directions in research of quality of life is examining the impact of economic growth on quality of life, which presents a fundamental axiological change in quality of life if this correlation is positive. In the classical approach, based on Easterlin´s paradox, there is no correlation between economic growth, manifested by the growth in...

State borders still constitute barrier in the current EU. However this barrier can be partly eliminated by conducting a cross-border cooperation (CBC), which can result into creation of cross-border regions. These regions create their own governance structures, which deal with individual CBC areas. One of the principal CBC areas is environmental pr...

V Evropské unii jsou i přes vytvořený jednotný vnitřní trh stále státní hranice mentální bariérou. Tuto bariéru je však možno do určité míry eliminovat prováděním přeshraniční spolupráce, která může vyústit až k vytváření přeshraničních regionů. Tyto přeshraniční regiony vytvářejí pro spolupráci své vlastní struktury governance. Cílem této práce je...

Vyd. 1. Referáty z 2. česko-polské studentské konference "Opolské a Opavské Slezsko ve směru evropských standardů" Text též polsky