The Centre is responsible for conducting research on socio-economic processes in border areas and statistics for Euroregions. It carries out works on creating a coherent research system for cross-border areas. In addition, the Centre implements nationwide survey the field of travel, i.e. „Trips of non-residents to Poland. The movement of vehicles and people on the Polish border with the European Union countries”, „Participation of Polish citizens (residents) in travel” and “Border traffic”. The Centre comprises a separate department in its structure - Methodology and Integrated Surveys in Travel Division.

In particular, the Centre is responsible for:

• identifying, analysing and taking actions to meet the demand for statistical,
• initiating, programming and planning of statistical surveys,
• developing the methodology of surveys,
• preparing guidelines for IT systems for collecting, processing, analysing and compiling final data and participation in testing of systems,
• creating and maintaining databases of final statistical data,
• preparing publications according to the statistical analyses and publishing plan,
• dissemination of the results of national statistical surveys carried out by the Center
• improving research tools used and the methodology in order to improve the quality of research and the reduction of costs and the burden of respondents,
• monitoring of changes in national and international legislation, conducting work aimed at aligning research to the applicable legal requirements,
• identifying and evaluating the usefulness and usability of administrative and extra-administrative data for the purposes of official statistics,
• cooperation with other institutions and organizations in order to integrate and coordinate statistical surveys and data acquisition, including participation in the work of inter-department teams and expert groups.

Participation in conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings concerning cross-border areas in 2019-2024

2024

• 23-25 October 2024, Satu Mare, Romania, Meeting on the acquisition of comparable data and indicators for monitoring the socio-economic development of cross-border areas and the possibility of their use in international publications;
• 13 September 2024, Bardejov, Slovakia, Ceremonial opening of the office of the Carpathian Euroregion;
  • Europe of the Carpathians
• 25 April 2024, Rzeszów, The International Student-Postgraduate Scientific Conference: Challenges of Transborder Economics;

2023

• 7-8 December 2023, Slovakia, Mutual cross-border cooperation - meeting;
• 6-7 September 2023, Karpacz, XXXVI Conference Europe of the Carpathians;
• 26 August 2023, Przemyśl, meeting in the series „Events and people of the Carpathians”;
• 1-2 June 2023, Solina, Sanok, international seminar on 30 years of Polish-Slovak cross-border cooperation;
• 18 May 2023, Sanok, Closing conference on the implementation of micro-projects - Interreg Poland-Slovakia Programme 2014-2020;
  • Poland-Slovakia - Interreg EU

2022

• 24-25 May 2022, conference on cross-border spatial monitoring;
  • Conference on cross-border spatial monitoring
• 11 May 2022, scientific conference „Agglomerations in EU cross-border areas”;
• 13 April 2022, conference „Regions of Eastern Poland in the European system of linkages”;

2021

• 30 June 2021, seminar „Challenges for cross-border statistics in the context of information needs of V4+ countries”;
  • Visegrad Group
• 12 May 2021, on-line Seminar „Macro-regional and Cross-Border Strategies as a Factor in the Economic, Tourism and Social Development of Regions”;
• 29 March 2021, Territorial Monitoring in Cross-Border Areas 2nd Meeting Bundesinstitut für Bau-Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR);

2020

• 2 December 2020, Inaugural Conference of Project INT 179 Cross-border monitoring model - innovative ways of data acquisition in the Szczecin Metropolitan Region;
• 20 August 2020, seminar on planning work on strategies for Cross-border Functional Areas;
• 6 March 2020, meeting on the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2021-2027
  • Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020
• 22-23 February 2020, international conference „Europe of the Carpathians”;
  • Europe of the Carpathians

2019

• 7 December 2019, conference „Conditions, assumptions directions perspectives of the development of the Cross-border Functional Area KREMENAROS”;
• 7 October 2019, information meeting on the establishment of the Ruthenia Euroregion Carpathian cross-border functional area;