Ahmed Bakry will be presenting findings from research in the ÖSR working group at the 2024 RSA Annual Conference ‘Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places’ in Florence. In his lecture ‘Measuring the national border effects through reconfiguring the national borders in three EU cross-border regions’, he will explain differences in cultural networks between the three EU border regions of the Basque Country, Flanders and the Upper Rhine.