AWARENESS

GLOBAL AWARENESS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AT

Dickinson State University is still accepting Global Awareness  Scholarship applications for the 2007-2008 academic school year! To be eligible for this prestigious award, students must have completed secondary school and secure a TOEFL score of 525 PBT or higher (197 or higher on the computer based test or 71 or higher on the internet based test. Students with native proficiency or have taken equivalent tests may also qualify for this award). Our Fall semester begins August 20th and th...

WORKSHOP ''AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT''

("Constientizare prin Miscare") Tehnica FELDENKRAIS cu Catrina Choate-Heretoiu Workshop introductiv: 18 Octombrie, ora 10.00 Locul: Casa Satya adresa: Bucuresti str. Banu Manta nr. 25 langa Primaria sectorului 1 Aceasta tehnica este recunoscuta in mod special in randul dansatorilor si atletilor profesionisti, mai ales datorita tehnicilor de recuperare fizica cu rezultate deosebite, insa este de fapt un sistem de tehnici si exercitii folositor oricarei persoane. Atat in Euro...

Educatie si internationalism in cel mai popular proiect educational din Romania

Elevii din clasa a 10-a participa in aceasta toamna la GROW, programul educational inovativ desfasurat pe parcursul celor 4 ani de liceu la nivel national, singurul ce aduce studenti internationali alaturi de liceeni in cadrul a 3 editii pe an. Organizat de AIESEC si Scoala de Valori programul GROW a ajuns deja la a 6-a editie. Evenimentul de deschidere GROW 1.0 Constanta se va desfasura sambata 12 Noiembrie ora 14:00 in sala B1 a Facultatii de Matematica Informatica. Sunt asteptati elevii ...

2 Ph.D. positions at TU-e in ENLIGHT project

Project description: A group of 30 leading European companies and academic institutions work together in the newly established ENLIGHT project, a program which is partly funded by the European Union and EU countries. Partners include companies throughout the lighting value chain, including universities and research centre.   The future of both domestic and professional lighting is LED, taking advantage of the intrinsic benefits of this new technology. This will lead to new lighting solu...

Sustainable Global Technologies - Living Lab

Sustainable Global Technologies (SGT) is a multidisciplinary educational programme of Aalto University. The SGT programme aims to increase awareness, education as well as research in the fields of sustainability, development, and technology.The SGT programme organizes a summer course for Master's students in August 2011.   Summer course is mainly aimed for those already holding a Bachelor's degree and preferably have signed in a Master's programme. However, some undergraduate students ...

Introduction to Conceptual History

The presumption that concepts, arguments, and ideas are timeless has been replaced in recent decades by an awareness of their unavoidable historicity and temporality. Based on methods proposed by such scholars as Reinhart Koselleck, Quentin Skinner, John Pocock, and Michel Foucault which focus on the use of language in a historical context, conceptual history serves as an innovative and rigorous approach to the analysis of key social and political concepts, arguments and ideas.   The goa...

Call for PhD Scholarships - Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Doctoral Programme: This educational programme takes advantage of the multi-disciplinary skills of its faculty, of the CIMeC laboratories (Center for Mind/Brain Sciences) and of the various departments (Physics, Information and Communication Technology, Cognitive Sciences and Education).   The Doctoral course offers an education that allows students to acquire elevated competence in specific areas of fundamental and applied research, encouraging professional development in innovative f...

Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise

By Giuseppe Mazzotta - Yale UniversityLicence: Course Description: The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition. Readings of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise seek to situate Dante's work within the intellect...

Sustainable Living: Environment I

By Scott Sherman - University of California, Los AngelesLicence: Course Description: The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP), ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and student facilitated program offered through the Institute of the Environment. The Speaker Series brings guest speakers from UCLA and across the country to speak on specialized subjects including food systems, green business, organic gardens, sustainable living, the green economy, environmental justice, transp...

Shutterfly: Reframing the Photo Market

By Jeff Housenbold - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Entrepreneurship is a State of Mind Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new products, new markets, and new ideas within any set of circumstances - from an existing Fortune 5...

Sales Model for Salesforce.com

By Tien Tzuo - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Strategy for Creating Customer Awareness Tien Tzuo, Chief Strategy Officer for Salesforce.com, believes that investments are shifting from direct-marketing campaigns to online marketing. Customer awareness is created through buzz, PR and dialogues in the marketplace rather than spending a great deal on advertising. ...

Elevation Partners: Successful Entrepreneurs

By Roger McNamee - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Successful Entrepreneurs Roger McNamee, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, believes that successful entrepreneurs are driven by compelling ideas. He goes on to say that along with great ideas, skills, personality and the determination to execute them, having a plan greatly increases one's chances of s...

Funding Artistic Activism in Filmmaking

By Anand Chandrasekaran - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Chew on This: An Unexpected Product Launch Anand Chandrasekaran, Producer of Tapestries of Hope, tells the tale of a small soap maker who realized that the gum they were giving away as a promotional item began to outshine their core product. The company had to make a bold decision to focus on what's selling, rather...

Idei de afaceri: Construieste-ti brandul cu ajutorul retelelor sociale

Sa apelezi la vasta audienta a retelelor sociale este o metoda low-cost pentru a aduce un brand mic in vizorul global. Construindu-ti brandul folosind social media iti permite sa construiesti relatii noi si sa le consolidezi pe cele deja existente, ceea ce adesea duce la tot ceea ce inseamna brand awareness, loialitate si marketing word-of-mouth. Chiar daca la inceput poate parea descurajant, ideea este sa imparti acest proces in cateva segmente pe care le poti manageria. De la crearea destinat...

Temperature Effects in Soil Microbial Ecology

With a course in Temperature Effects in Soil Microbial Ecology you can help solve one of the largest global challenges of the 21st century: how to combine the increasing need for natural resources in agriculture with a sustainable management of nature and the environment.   People with in-depth knowledge and interdisciplinary skills regarding the interactions between agriculture, nature and the environment are becoming ever more important when seeking to meet the challenges of sustain...

History of Art: Artistic Relations Between Italy and the Netherlands

Vermeer? Da Vinci? Both geniuses, most people would say today, both equally deserving to be printed on posters (and the occasional placemat) all over the world. Today, both Italian Renaissance art and Dutch Golden Age art have conquered their prime positions in the art history books. But in the 16th and 17th centuries, the 'Northern' style of painting was seen as very different from the 'Southern' one, even though artists from both traditions influenced each other, there were ongoing disputes a...

Health Communication

This course aims to increase knowledge and understanding concerning health communication in general, and the application of health communication in various contexts. Health communication finds application in various fields, amongst which are public health services, for example in informational, awareness and promotional campaigns, in social services where the focus is on the message recipient and as entertainment education where the primary goal is community development.   The course fo...

Global Business

Global business can be defined as business activities which involve trade or investment across national boundaries. The aim of the course is to provide a sufficient understanding of cross-border business issues to be in a position to contribute to decisions about the internationalization of business.   Furthermore, the course wishes to provide the students with a managerial perspective of those aspects of the global business environment which directly affect a business's foreign trade a...

French as a foreign Language

Beginners 1. This program is aimed at enabling oral communication in the most common and important situations of everyday life during a short stay in France. Consequently grammar will not be a priority. The students will be given practical "survival tools", simple structures and basic vocabulary in order to become more autonomous, to understand and make themselves understood by French-speaking people.     The stress will be put on interactivity and group work. Situations...

Experimental Methods in the Study of Cognition and Culture

What can cognition and brain function tell us about cultural forms? And how does culture impinge on cognitive processing and brain functions? The interface between culture on the one hand, and cognition and brain science on the other is a fast-developing research area attracting numerous scholars and scientists with different backgrounds.   Neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and humanists of various sorts seek to find out how evolved cognitive c...

Applied Animal Behaviour & Animal Welfare

Programme Description The programme aims to provide students with an understanding of animal welfare that can be applied effectively in animal research, management, care, production, inspection, assessment and...

Leaderhip Programme

  The Leadership Programme is a staged programme requiring students to achieve specified outcomes during each term. As many of the Leadership Programme activities are embedded in courses, here are just...

MA International Business

This course looks at business from an international perspective and provides students with the opportunity to explore practice in the context of relevant contemporary theory and research in the field of...