Keynote Speakers

Martin Klatt is the Head of Research Cluster at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg (since 2022). Since 2005 he has been working also as the Associate Professor at the Center of Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg. His previous scientific positions were: research fellow at the Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research (1996), the Research Department of the Danish Library for South Schleswig (1997-2000), assistant professor at the Danish Institute for Border Region Studies (2001-2005). His research activities concentrate on national minorities in border regions, regional cross-border cooperation, cross-border regions in history and today, and cross-border regional governance. Martin is also coordinator of the Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES) Horizon Europe research project (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/b-shapes).

Hynek Böhm holds Ph.D. in political geography. He has been professionally active in the field of cross-border co-operation (CBC) during most of his professional career in the public administration, NGOs and academia. He acted as a facilitator and a developer of cross-border initiatives. He was also a founding member of Transfrontier EuroInstitute Network (www.transfrontier.eu), which has been operating since 2010. After he defended his PhD thesis, which dealt with CBC and multi-level governance in border regions, he started researching and teaching border studies from the perspective of political geography at Technical University of Liberec (CZ) and political sciences at University of Opole (PL). He has been strongly involved in co-operation with the non-academic world, which makes his research more applied. He has co-founded EuroInstitute PL-CZ-SK, which should further deepen trilateral Polish-Czech-Slovak cross-border links by the means of training, applied research and consultancy. He has been acting as a chairman of the applied geography section of the Czech Geographical Society.