The project “Conflict and Cooperation in EU Border Regions” (EU-Front) aims at an exchange of experience and debate on the role of the border in the process of European Integration. The idea is to examine the border in its dialectical function between separation and rapprochement and to discuss its consequences for the European Union. Concretely, the project consists of the organization of 4 round-tables and 4 seminar-debates the last one of which will be expanded into a final Conference. Each round-table will deal with a current border problem (immigration crisis, the reintroduction of border controls etc.) and each seminar will examine two cross-border regions for a comparative analysis of eight case studies in total: - the Upper Rhine Region (France, Germany, Switzerland)- the Mont Blanc Space (France, Switzerland, Italy)- the Calais-Dover Region and Eurometropolis Lille (France, Belgium, United Kingdom)- the Ireland/Northern Ireland Region- the Cieszyn Region (Czech Republic, Poland)- the Euroregion Viadrina (Germany, Poland)- the Catalan Region (Spain, France, Andorra)- the Slovenia-Austria-Italy Border Region. The choice of these regions is justified by a representativeness both in geographical (internal and external borders, Schengen) and policy field terms (migration problems, cross-border crime, East-West cooperation, etc.). The debates and comparative analysis will be interdisciplinary and will associate researchers, PHD students, European and International students, but also cross-border actors and representatives of European Institutions (Council of Europe, European Parliament, Committee of the Regions). The project will lead to the elaboration of an Encyclopaedia on conflict and cooperation at EU borders for students of International Relations and European Studies and for actors in cross-border territories.