Tomáš Havlícek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science at the Charles University in Prague, Czechia. His research is concerned with the geography of border and peripheral regions, geography of religion and cultural geography. He is member of the main committee of Czech Geographic Society. He is also collaborator of the workgroup on geography of religion by the German Geographical Society. He is interested also in border areas in Europe and in particular the Czech-Austrian borderland. He has published many articles concerning cross-border cooperation in Central Europe.Milan Jerábek is Associated Professor at the Department of Geography at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. The scope of his research lies in Geography of Population and Settlement, Regional Planning, Regional Development and policy, especially Geography of Border Studies. He has led many projects dealing with the study of border and cross-border cooperation. He is also a member of the editorial board of the book series “Geographica” published by the Czech Geographic Society and a co-chair of professional working group for regional development of the Elbe/Labe Euroregion. Jaroslav Dokoupil is Associated Professor at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Economics at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen. He is a member of the Centre for Regional Development Research. He deals with regional geography and regional planning. In terms of his research activities, he focuses on the borderland of Czechia, specifically on the Czech-Bavarian borderland and on peripheral areas and Euroregions in the context of European regional policy.