The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities, and Transnationalization (2014‐2019) is an integrated consortium of four research groups led by Professors Anssi Paasi, Jouni Häkli, Sami Moisio and Jarkko Saarinen. The CoE brings together human geographers from the Universities of Oulu, Tampere and Helsinki to study theoretical and empirical themes related to contemporary bordering practices, transnational political spaces and forms of political agency. The CoE is coordinated at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland.