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Commission
fosters cooperation in Latin America. Call for proposals EuropeAid
The objetive of the Urb-Al programme of the European Union, is to
develop networks of decentralised cooperation between local authorities
on concrete topics and problems of urban local development. Urb-Al
plays a leading role in the strengthening of the relations between
the menbers of the European Union and the 18 Latin America conuntries
by encouraging direct ecperience exchange between territorial representatives
and technicians of both continents.
European Commission. External cooperation
programmes. EuropeAid. Publicated: 18-4-2008
“Cultures
on my street" Competition. Deadline for entries: 30 June 2008
The pan-European photo initiative of the European Year 2008
“Cultures on my street” takes off at full speed. As
Europe grows together in its diversity, the European Commission
challenges YOU to capture your vision of intercultural dialogue
and share it with the world in the competition “Cultures on
my street”. All European residents, regardless of age or origins,
are invited to participate. It’s as easy as grabbing your
camera and stepping outside the front door. Inspiration for the
theme could be found in the fields of education, religion, migration,
science, culture, minority groups or youth. After the deadline,
four winners will be selected. Three of the winners will be chosen
by a jury of established artists and leading figures on intercultural
issues. The fourth will be selected by online voting.
An initiative of the European Union. Publicated:
18-4-2008
Cultural
Policy Research Award 2008
The CPR Award competition is open to candidates from all European
countries. Candidates must be able to speak and write in English
and must be no older than 35 at the time of applying. Young academics,
researchers and policymakers are eligible. Candidates must be educated
to M.A. level in social sciences, art & humanities, or public
policy research. Candidates will be assessed according to their
qualifications, the relevance of their research project to cultural
policy issues, and their vision of how policy recommendations could
be implemented. The winner of the CPRA 2008 receives a grant of
€10.000 and the award will enable the proposed research to
be carried out (within one year of the award being presented). The
CPR Award winner will have also the opportunity to contribute to
certain conferences and debates within the European Cultural Foundation
and ENCATC.
ENCATC. Newsletter. Issue 3-2008. Publicated:
18-4-2008
Nina
Crone Award for Australian Garden History writing. Deadline for
applications: 31 July 2008
To commemorate Nina Crone’s contribution to the Australian
Garden History Society the Society is honoured to create the Nina
Crone Award for Australian Garden History Writing. The award of
$1,000.00 plus certificate of recognition will be given for an original
article of 1000–1500 words relating to Australian garden history.
The award is open to students nationally and is intended to encourage
new and emerging scholars in the writing of Australian garden history
and to recognize excellence in such writing.
AGHS - The Australian Garden History Society.
Victoria. Publicated: 18-4-2008
Galle
Fort Hotel presented with UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award
The 2007 UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Award of Distinction, for
heritage conservation, was presented to Galle Fort Hotel by Richard
Engelhardt, UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the
Pacific at a presentation ceremony jointly organized by UNESCO and
the Galle Heritage Foundation. The jury panel on making the award
has cited This carefully considered transformation of an abandoned
historic residential compound into a stylish luxury boutique hotel
has evocatively captured the spirit of place of the colonial World
Heritage fortified town of Galle... For more details on the hotel
and its restoration work visit www.gallforthotel.com
UNESCO. Bangkok. Heritage Awards. Publicated:
18-4-2008
European
call for cultural projects with Egypt
The delegation of the European Commission in Cairo has just published
this announcement for 2008 which has as main priorities: the dialogue
and exchanges between cultures, the reciprocal understanding and
the visibility of the euro-mediterranean collaboration. Within the
framework of its European policy of neigbourhood, the Delegation
thus attempts to support cultural projects that promote collaboration
between Egyptian institutions and European structures or institutions.The
projects proposed shall have any form of cultural expression, understood
in a very wide sense. Thus, visual arts, dance, music, theater,
cinema, heritage… are areas that can be the basis for the
projects. Original creation and approaches, as well as the coherence
and complementariness with other projects supported by the European
Union in Egypt will be specially encouraged …
ADCEI. eEurope Culture(s). News. Publicated:
15-4-2008
Earthwatch
Educator Awards 2008 - Deadline for applications: 14 May 2008
Twenty-four teachers and educators will have the chance to find
inspiration among whales and dolphins this summer, as part of the
2008 Earthwatch Educator Awards, an exciting professional development
opportunity. Earthwatch, the international environmental charity,
is inviting educators and secondary school teachers of science and
geography to apply to join one of three scientific research expeditions
during the summer holiday period. Twenty-four fully-funded places
are up for grabs in August on the Earthwatch expeditions Dolphins
of Greece, Whales and Dolphins of the Hebrides and Whales and Dolphins
of Moray Firth...
Earthwatch Institute (Europe). Education
and Training. Awards. Publicated: 14-4-2008
Advanced
Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions
Beginning in October its objective is to offer an advanced education
programme on the engineering of conservation of structures, with
a focus on architectural heritage. The Master combines the diversity
of expertise at leading European universities in the field, offering
education oriented to a multidisciplinary understanding of structural
conservation through the involvement of experts from complementary
fields (engineers, architects, materials scientists and others).
Students face top level structural analysis knowledge in a research
oriented environment, with close cooperation with the industry and
a focus on problem solving.
European Union. Education. Programmes.
Erasmus Mundus. Publicated: 11-4-2007
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Call
for research projects - RES@TICE
The Network of scholars in information and communication technologies
for education (RESATICE) launches its second call for projects.
It aims at helping scholars that work in francophone countries to
initiate research actions in three different topics: Innovating
uses of training with open software and free access repositories
of resources, IT in university teaching and user programs and uses
in french speaking digital Campuses of the AUF. Send documentation
before July 4, 2008. Three projects will be selected to be financed
in the period 2008-2010. The results will be communicated at the
beginning of October 2008. Contact: appel2008@resatice.org
Tot-Cursus. News of distance learning.
Publicated: 10-4-2008
European
Science Foundation Exploratory Workshops - Call for proposals -
Deadline: 29 April 2008
Each year, ESF supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across
all scientific domains. These small, interactive group sessions
are aimed at opening up new directions in research to explore new
fields with a potential impact on developments in science. The workshops,
which usually last 1-3 days, have a wide participation from across
Europe and involve mature scientists as well as young, independent
researchers and scholars with leadership potential. The relatively
small scale (in terms of people involved) provides an ideal platform
for focus on the topic and for all participants to contribute to
discussions and plan follow-up collaborative work. Interdisciplinary
topics are greatly encouraged.
European Science Foundation. Exploratory
Workshops. Publicated: 28-3-2008
Grants
for the ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Conference - 22-26 September 2008
- New Dehli, India
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is offering a limited
number of bursaries to museum and/or conservation professionals
from Africa, Asia and the Pacifi c, Eastern Europe, and Latin America
to attend the 15th Triennial Conference of ICOM's International
Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC). Grant application forms and
further information about the conference are available at the Conference
website: http://www.icom-cc2008.org and at the ICOM-CC website:
http://www.icom-cc.org and also by request from the ICOM-CC Secretariat
at: secretariat@icom-cc.org.
ICOM. Grants. Publicated: 11-3-2008
Deadline
extended for applications to UNESCO-Vocations Patrimoine Fellowships
for World Heritage site managers - 30 April
2008
Training World Heritage site managers is one of the most valuable
investments in heritage conservation, particularly as these sites
confront the challenges of increasing flows of tourism and diminishing
flows of international assistance for conservation and management.
This is why UNESCO's World Heritage Centre has joined forces - for
the third year running - in an innovative public-private partnership
to offer Fellowships through the UNESCO-Association Vocations Patrimoine
World Heritage Site Managers Programme. The fellowships are destined
for World Heritage site managers as well as people intending to
pursue a career in World Heritage site management. This programme
is the result of a partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage
Centre and the French non-governmental organization, Association
Vocations Patrimoine and its partners, the multinational groups
AXA and MAZARS, actively supported by the French Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It supports the World Heritage Committee's Capacity
Building objectives by facilitating access to advanced level interdisciplinary
training in World Heritage studies.
World Heritage Centre (WHC) News. Publicated:
7-3-2008
International
Competition "DE GROENE KNOOP" - Apeldoorn. The Netherlands
An international competition involving a complex and extensive green
area in Apeldoorn is one of the big projects of the Triennial. National
and international design teams will be invited to propose a design
solution for an area linking a park with an urban public space.
Accompanying the competition will be a series of activities such
as an exposition, debates, and presentations. The winner will be
announced in 2008 and be awarded the commission. The submissions
and results will be a subject of the following Triennial in 2011...
Dept. of Public Works and the Planning
Dept., Municipality of Apeldoorn. Triënnale Apeldoorn. Publicated:
2-4-2008
Scholarships
at Southhampton
The School of Geography at University of Southampton offers several
half-fee scholarships to give the opportunity to join the MA in
Creative Cities...Rethinking Urban and Regional Development. This
challenging and dynamic programme provides students with a basis
for exploring key elements of twenty-first century urban and regional
change, including creativity, cultural planning, globalisation and
innovation. The deadline for application is 1st of May 2008...
University of Southampton. School of Geography.
Programmes. Publicated: 1-4-2008
ENCATC
- Cultural Policy Research Award 2008 (CPRA)
The European Cultural Foundation, the Riksbankens Jublileumsfond
and the European Network of Cultural Administration and Training
Centres (ENCATC) call for applications for the 5th Cultural Policy
Research Award 2008. The winner of the CPR Award 2008, worth Euro
10,000, will be publicly announced on the 16th of October at the
International ENCATC Annual Conference taking place in Lyon, France.
Designed to stimulate academic and applied cultural policy research
and to explore, through comparative cross-national research, issues
at stake in contemporary Europe, and possibly anticipate new cultural
policy orientations, the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) has
the ambition to contribute to the process of creating an "infrastructure",
a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research
projects in cultural policy.
ENCATC. News. Publicated: 1-4-2008
World
Photography Contest: International Year of the POTATO - HIDDEN TREASURE
The IYP World Photography Contest, Focus on a global food, supports
two key objectives of the International Year of the Potato: to increase
awareness of the importance of potato as a food in developing nations,
and to promote research and development of potato-based systems
as a means of contributing to achievement of the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals. See also: Rice 2004 - The IYP World
Photography Contest follows the example of the photography competition
held in 2004 for the International Year of Rice. Entries were received
from 53 countries. See
the winning photographs here...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO). International Year of Potato. Publicated:
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