An innovative cross border educational programme involving academics from the University of Ulster is having a major impact at home and abroad.
The Dissolving Boundaries programme, which was launched in 1999 by the School of Education on the Coleraine campus in association with counterparts in NUI Maynooth, uses technology such as video-conferencing and a secure internet service to develop links between schools in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Under Professor Roger Austin of the School of Education leadership, this pioneering approach has also been developed in Israel to link teachers and young people in orthodox Jewish, secular Jewish and Arab-Israeli schools.
The Israeli Ministry of Education has been so impressed by the success and scale of Dissolving Boundaries that it plans to extend its work to 1,000 schools in the next three years.