Overall, B-SHAPES will develop tools to aid borderlanders, local, regional, national and EU policymakers as well as citizens in general to understand borders more inclusively: as contact point, meeting point, resource, and openings of opportunity, where they will learn to perceive the European project as essential for this. B-SHAPES will provide a diversified range of outputs, including academic publications, events, debates and performances, works of art, a documentary film, policy briefs, a policy handbook, digital technologies including a digital exhibition.

Among the concrete outputs will be a report identifying lessons learnt during the Covid19-crisis, by analysing how decisions disproportionately affecting border regions (border closures) in turn become reflected in Eurosceptic attitudes (WP3). WP4 will in turn produce a report describing borders as a factor shaping young minority members’ perception of European societies.
B-SHAPES’ research will further result in understandings of cultural heritage that goes beyond narrow national confinements, yet still includes the national dimension. Thus, the project will improve access and engagement with cultural heritage, but also a general change of perceptions of European societies. The created knowledge regarding border heritage will be disseminated to educators to provide new, more sustainable modes to approach landscape conservation.
The non-academic partners of B-SHAPES (AEBR, ENRS, National History Museum) will be crucial in the communication and dissemination activities to policymakers, scientific community, as well as heritage managers. Further, B-SHAPES will be supported by the Youth of European Nationalities to involve young minority members in the research and dissemination activities connected with WP4, and the youth wings of political parties contesting the 2024 European elections to research and dissemination activities within WP3.