Question borders and meet the challenge of differences

Interdisciplinary missions

Podcasts (in French)

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Research on Detective Novels

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“Question borders and meet the challenge of differences” Mission

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The “Question borders and meet the challenge of differences” mission is coordinated by Damien Connil (DICE-IE2IA) and Joana Etchart (ALTER).

It is composed of several autonomous research projects and programmes that contribute to the production of knowledge and know-how in the following areas:

  • Otherness and identity
  • Borders: representations and cooperation
  • Hybridisation, comparison and circulation
  • Heritage, traces and commons
  • Multilingualism and interculturality
  • The Basque language

Sustainable Development Goals

This interdisciplinary mission addresses four of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):



  • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

Download the presentation of the mission's roadmap (PDF 0.9 MB - in French)

Hubs and Networks

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UNITA

Regional Research Networks

  • FrancophoNéA - Regional research network on francophonies

  • EDAP - Regional Research Network Europe - Law - Public Action

European Projects

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National Projects

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  • Tenure-track Junior Professor Chair (CPJ): Intangible cultural heritage as a lever for regional development in mountain areas

  • MIND2WALL - From the Mind to the Wall: Tracing Sign Language in Paleolithic Hand Stencils

  • MADPAB - Modern Approaches to Diachronic Phonology Applied to the Basque language

  • LABA - Language Abilities of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Regional Projects

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  • POLARAQUI - Writing, publishing and promoting detective fiction in the region(s)

  • MécriNA - Writers' houses in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: places of memory between heritage enhancement, tourism issues and artistic creation (MécriNA)

  • IMHANA - (Im)migrations of Yesterday and Today in New Aquitaine (IMHANA)

  • PATMOS - Historical heritage and development: socialisation and musealisation (Central and Western Pyrenees and other areas)

  • Correspondences between Basque ports and the new France according to English seizures during the reign of Louis XV

  • HumanA - Aquitaine Humanisms / Humanism Today in New Aquitaine

  • PatrimPublic - Cross-border historico-artistic studies for the social enhancement of heritage as an educational and tourist resource

Joint Projects

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  • Inclusive transition: accessibility and self-determination - UPPA / Landes Department / National Advisory Council for People with Disabilities

Local Projects

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  • AcAMEL - Aquitaine Multilingual Experimental Lab

  • Crossed sensorialities, research-creation project in the performing and visual arts

  • English speakers in Pau and the surrounding area - Accounts of a migratory experience

  • Books for young people: a heritage for the future

  • Thriller novels in the city

  • Literature and rurality

  • APPY - Territorial Attractiveness and Environmental Protection in the Pyrenees. Comparative law analysis of cross-border cooperation in the mountains and foothills

  • PERSON - Shared territorial responsibility at the service of freedoms and the right to autonomy

  • PCR Sordus - From the Roman villa to the Maurist abbey church