Economy

BUCHAREST SUMMER UNIVERSITY, 2006 - SECOND EDITION - Preparing Small and Medium Enterprises for a knowledge based economy

The Academy of Economic Studies presents the Second Edition of Bucharest Summer University, that will take place between August 20th and September 3rd 2006, in Bucharest, Romania. We live in a knowledge based economy, in an ever changing environment, and small and medium enterprises play a major role in present and future economies. Thus, the purpose of this years edition is to improve students knowledge and abilities concerning small and medium enterprises. The courses of the Buc...

UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY

UNWE is a modern higher educational institution, which conducts education in different forms and at different levels towards awarding the educational qualification degrees `Specialist`, `Bachelor`, `Master` and the educational and scientific degree `Doctor` in compliance with the traditions and values of Bulgarian higher education, the international practice and contemporary trends in education of leading universities. Concurrently UNWE works on extensive scientific research projects in the ...

BUCHAREST SUMMER UNIVERSITY, 2006 - SECOND EDITION - "Preparing Small and Medium Enterprises for a knowledge based economy"

The Academy of Economic Studies presents the Second Edition of Bucharest Summer University, that will take place between August 20th and September 3rd 2006, in Bucharest, Romania. We live in a knowledge based economy, in an ever changing environment, and small and medium enterprises play a major role in present and future economies. Thus, the purpose of this years edition is to improve students knowledge and abilities concerning small and medium enterprises. The courses of the Buch...

Master Thesis on The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms in Developing Countries

The Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) jointly seek a candidate for a Master Thesis on The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms in Developing Countries – The Case of Peru.   Background and Research Questions Water supply and sanitation are essential conditions for human development. However, particularly developing countries face severe problems in supplying people with a sufficient a...

The Thriving Green Economy

By Jesse Fink - Stanford UniversityLicence: Course Description: Lectures: Lecture 1 - Technology as Medium, Not Content Priceline co-founder Jesse Fink explains to entrepreneur Steve Blank how his early company was a technology-enhanced solution to a business model - and not a real technology play - that succeeded in providing for both business and consumer. Fink brings these same solutions to his current inv...

PhD position in a project on human capital and the world economy

Job description As a PhD student you will participate in the project Agency, Gender, and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000. This project explores how ‘agency’, conceptualized as the potential for individual decision-making at the levels of households, economic activity and political participation, contributed to global economic development and vice versa.   This question, which is at the core of current theorizing in economic history, requires innovative u...

Gender, State and Welfare in a Global Economy

One of the most pressing questions facing comparative social scientists concerns the role of the welfare state in mediating social inequalities in a global economy. While some scholars argue that the welfare state will whither in the face of shrinking state budgets and neoliberal austerity measures, others argue for the continued relevance and durability of welfare state institutions in democratic societies.   Despite these debates, most scholars agree that social welfare institutions fa...

Summer school 'The Political Economy of ICT, Social networking' 2010, Denmark

The PhD summer school on the political economy information and communication technologies focuses on social networking in 2010. Internet-based communities have existed for more than 20 years, but during the past few years, social networking has become widespread. Worldwide, people connect via the web and extend their social communities beyond what could ever have been realized without the web. Till now, users of web-based social networking and communities have mainly used traditional comp...

DEZBATERI: UNIVERSITY MEETS ECONOMY

Sub denumirea de CAREER CENTER: UNIVERSITY MEETS ECONOMY, va avea loc, in data de 30 si 31 octombrie 2008, primul forum de comunicare, cooperare si integrare a mediului economic cu cel academic organizat de Facultatea de Litere si Arte a Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu. Pentru prezentarea evenimentului, va invitam la o conferinta de presa, vineri, 24 octombrie 2008, la ora 10, in sala 39 "Lucian Blaga" de la etajul 1 al cladirii Universitatii "Lucian Blaga"...

SEMINAR: CAREER CENTER: UNIVERSITY MEETS ECONOMY

Sub denumirea de CAREER CENTER: UNIVERSITY MEETS ECONOMY, va avea loc, in data de 30 si 31 octombrie 2008, primul forum de comunicare, cooperare si integrare a mediului economic cu cel academic organizat de Facultatea de Litere si Arte a Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu. Pentru prezentarea evenimentului, va invitam la o conferinta de presa, vineri, 24 octombrie 2008, la ora 10, in sala 39 "Lucian Blaga" de la etajul 1 al cladirii Universitatii "Lucian Blaga"...

SCHOLARSHIPS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, SIENA, ITALY

For the academic year 2007-2008, a maximum of 20 students will be admitted to the program. Admissions will be decided after a comparative evaluation ofcandidates, as specified in the Bando di Concorso (published on the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana n. 15 - 4 Serie speciale concorsi ed esami, 20-2-2007); what follows is a summary of all information relevant for application. Applicants must hold an Italian "laurea magistrale" or "laurea specialistica" , or a 4 y...

Post - Doctoral Fellowship

Requirements - An excellent PhD degree (concluded not more than 5 years ago) in one of the IRTG’s participating fields of study (History, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Political Sciences, Economy, Literary and Cultural Sciences) - A thematically relevant research project  - Very good Spanish/Portuguese and English language skills It is expected that the successful applicants will reside in the Berlin/Potsdam area and will adapt themselves to participation in a structure...

Master's Program in International Relations and European Studies

Central European University is pleased to announce its call for applications for its Master’s Program in International Relations and European Studies. The department integrates international relations research with regional expertise in the European Union andthe wider European neighborhood. It combines international relations theory, international political economy and security studies with multidisciplinary approaches to EU integration and expansion.  ...

Engleza - domenii economice

UNIT ONE CONCEPTS IN ECONOMICS OBJECTIVES: After studying this chapter, you should be able to: - understand the concepts of supply and demand and competition - comprehend how supply and demand determine price in competitive markets - know what a small business is and name the fields in which small business are concentrated - describe the people who start small businesses, how some succeed, and why many fail - understand the contribution of small businesses to economy MODULE I LEA...

Alternative tourisms

1. ALTERNATIVE TOURISMS I. Comment on the following poem. Do you sympathize with the author or do you tend to contradict him? When the tourists flew in the Finance Minister said, “It will boost the economy,  the dollars will flow in”. The Minister of Interior said, “It will provide full and varied employment for all the indigenes”.  ...

W. SyCip Best and Brightest Scholarship

Asian Institute of Management’s W. SyCip Best and Brightest full scholarship program offers the top undergraduate students with high GMAT / AIMAT scores, and solid work background MBA or MM full tuition scholarship, economy air fare from and to the students’ home country, lodging at the AIM dormitory, and a monthly stipend.   Mr. Washington SyCip, one of the founders of the Institute is funding this program. In order to be eligible for the scholarship, all admission requirem...

Call for applications: PhD Programs 2012 at IMT Lucca

Competitions for admission are open in the following Ph.D. Programs at IMT:   Computer Science and Engineering The doctoral program aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge about the foundations of informatics and information engineering, and about their application to a variety of systems in many different domains. The program introduces new perspectives in formulating and solving technical challenges that are currently a target of very active research are...

PhD Scholarships within the field of Danish-European-Chinese social science research

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for two vacant PhD scholarships within the field of Danish/European-Chinese social science research. The PhD must conduct research which is embedded in already existing research projects at CBS related to the Sino-Danish University Center-initiative . The scholarships will be available from 1 August 2011.   The PhD scholarship can be situated at any department or center at CBS which has research on Danish-Chinese issues related to SDC and...

PhD position User - Centric Reasoning for Well - working

The Information Systems (IS) group within the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at the University of Twente has a vacancy for a PhD student.      The challenge Supporting people in deploying a healthier life style as well as facilitating their ability to work more flexibly is considered important. Well-being applications at work and at home are expected to help people to continue contributing to society, the marketplace and the econo...

Electronic and Mobile Commerce (Master)

University: Åbo Akademi University (Department of Information Technologies) Partners: Turku Centre for Computer Science, Nordic Master School in Innovative ICT   The...

Adult Learning and Global Change

Programme Description Across the whole world education is in focus in order to become more competitive in the global economy. governments are urging citizens to train or educate themselves for competition in the...

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Programme Description BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics can give you an insight into questions like: Why do political ideas, from Plato´s Republic to Rawl´s Law of Peoples, matter so much? Why is...