The Eu­ro­pe­an-Uni­ver­sity Via­drina Frank­furt (Oder) has fol­low­ed the in­vi­ta­tion of the Ex­cel­lence Ini­tia­tive of the Ger­man Fe­de­ral Mi­ni­stry of Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­search to sub­mit a full pro­po­sal by en­tering the Clus­ter of Ex­cel­lence B/OR­DERS IN MO­TION.
The Clus­ter com­bines and pro­motes an­a­lyses in the so­cial and cul­tur­al sci­ences, busi­ness ad­min­is­tra­tion and eco­nom­ics as well as law. It fo­cus­es on pro­cesses of de­mar­cat­ing, tran­scend­ing, over­com­ing and re-es­tab­lish­ing bor­ders, bound­aries, front­iers and lim­its. The clus­ter’s in­sti­tu­tion­al base is the Eu­ro­pe­an-Uni­ver­sity Via­drina Frank­furt (Oder), which was es­tab­lish­ed in 1991 on the Ger­man-Polish bor­der with the goal of fo­cus­ing its re­search and teach­ing on cul­tural, so­cial, po­lit­i­cal and

eco­nomic bor­ders and their dis­so­lu­tion in the Eu­ro­pe­an, and par­tic­u­lar­ly the East­ern Eu­ro­pe­an con­text. The Clus­ter of Ex­cel­lence re­fers back to this foun­ding idea and raises it to a new le­vel. Be­yond the spe­cif­ic prob­lem of pol­it­i­cal and le­gal bor­ders with­in Eu­ro­pe, the clus­ter seeks to pro­mote em­pir­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal re­search on the dy­nam­ics of the prac­tices of draw­ing and dis­solving bor­ders as be­ing con­sti­tu­tive for past and pre­sent so­ci­e­tal and cul­tur­al for­ma­tions. In so doing, it tran­scends the late mod­ern self-under­stand­ing of merely over­com­ing bor­ders and re­con­cep­tu­al­izes them in light of the si­mul­ta­neity of mul­ti­ple bor­der pro­cess­es. In a world of dif­fer­ent speeds, com­plex over­laps of struc­tures, frag­men­ta­tions and plu­ral­izations of tem­po­ral hori­zons as