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1. Funding
Opportunities
- European Commission Environment
Directorate General - Financial Instrument for the Environment
LIFE
Application deadline: June 18, 2007
- Training the Trainers - Developing Youth
Capacity to Promote Intercultural Dialogue, August 24 - 31, 2007,
Oradea, Romania
Aplication
deadline: June 24, 2007
- Policy Association for an Open Society -
Tender for Innovative Joint projects, or further
Development/Replication in Other Countries of Innovative
Projects
Application deadline: Ju! ne 29, 2007
- Women’s Human Rights Training Institute
2007/2009, Bulgaria
Application
deadline: June 30, 2007
- CERGE-EI - Regional Research Competition
in Social Sciences
Application
deadline: July 1, 2007
- BEST Board of European Students of
Technology - BEST Courses for Students of
Technology
Application deadline: July 1, 2007
- UNDP Romania - GEF Small Grants
Programme
Applic ation
deadline: July 2, 2007
- European Commission DG Education and
Culture - MEDIA 2007/2013 - Training
Application
deadline: July 2, 2007
- The European Public Sector Award
(EPSA)
Application deadline: July 15, 2007
- Council of Europe/European Commission -
Partnership Programme on European Youth Worker
Training
Application deadline: July 15, 2007
- European Commission DG Education an! d
Culture - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
2008
Application deadline: July 31, 2007
- Global Development Network - 2007 Most
Innovative Development Project Competition
Application
deadline: August 20, 2007
- The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia -
Fellowships programme 2007/2008
Application
deadline: August 30, 2007
2.
Announcements and Upcoming Events
- AIESEC Azerbaijan and Ministry of
Youth and Sport of the Republic of Azerbaijan - 5th Black Sea
Youth Congress, June 30 - July 3, 2007, Baku,
Azerbaijan
Application deadline: June 15,
2007
- Slovene Anthropological Society -
’Life in the Times of Conflict’ Conference, September 27—30, 2007,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Application deadline: June
15, 2007
- International Forum Bosnia - ‘Unity
and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Public Life’ Conference,
August 12 – 14, 2007, Mostar, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Application deadline: June 15,
2007
- University of Split -
‘Global Integration of Graduate Programmes’ Conference, Split,
Croatia
Application deadline: June 15, 2007 (for
submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper drafts
(2000-5000 words)
- Collected Volume on Women's Lives,
Gender Relations and State Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
under State Socialism
Application deadline: June
15, 2007
- The Institute for Social and European
Studies - XIIth Annual International Savaria Summer University
‘Meetamorphosis of Europe. Enlargement and Beyond’, June 25 - July
6, 2007, Koszeg, Hungary
Application deadline:
June 18, 2007 (for applicants who DO NOT nee! d a visa to come to
Hungary)
- Gender Alliance for
Development - Gender & Social Change in Albania`s
Transition
Application deadline: June 20,
2007
- Sarajevo Talent Campus, August 20 -
25, 2007
Application deadline: June 21,
2007
- Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences -
Call for papers
Application deadline: June 30,
2007
- emcLab - EUROPE in your
eyes
Application deadline: June 30, 2007
- IN-DIFFERENCE festival, November
2007, Belgrade, Serbia
A! pplication deadline:
July 1, 2007
- ’Telos, Ethos, Demos and the Future
of the European Integration Process’ Summer School, August 20 –
26, 2007, Vama Veche, Romania
Application
deadline: July 14, 2007
- No Mediation: Re-imagining democracy
through art
Application deadline: July 20,
2007
- Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology – ‘Social Figurations of Violence and War Beyond the
State’ Workshop, February 21 – 22, 2008, Halle/Saale, Germany
Application deadline: July 31, 2007
- ! University of Prishtina - Journal
of Human Righ! ts and P olicy - Call for
papers
Application deadline: July 31,
2007
- eYouWiNS - The European Youth Week in
Novi Sad, August 19 – 26, 2007, Novi Sad,
Serbia
3. Useful
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European
Commission Environment Directorate General - Financial Instrument
for the Environment LIFE Application
deadline: June 18, 2007
The
Commission aims to promote non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
which are primarily active in the field of environmental protection
under the Financial Instrument for the Environment - LIFE +. This
should strengthen the participation of NGOs in the dialogue process
in environmental policy-making and in its
implementation.
Support may be provided to NGO's which are
involved in contributing to the development and implementation of
Community environmental policy and legislation in different regions
in Europe.
Support is targeted in particular to the priority
areas of the LIFE + programme: - Limiting climate change -
Nature and bio-diversity - protecting a unique resource - Hhealth
and environment - Ensuring the sustainable management of natural
resources and waste horizontal or cross-cutting issues. In
addition to these areas, environmental education, enlargement and
third countries remain of interest.
NGOs wishing to apply
need to: - Be independent, non-profit-making, and active at
European level in at least three European countries - Be legally
established in either the 27 EU Member States.
The
Commissions' support to the EU Member States will not exceed 70% of
the total eligible costs.
More information Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/funding/pdf/ngo_call_2007.pdf
E-mail: ngo@ec.europa.eu
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Training the
Trainers - Developing Youth Capacity to Promote Intercultural
Dialogue, August 24 - 31, 2007, Oradea, Romania Aplication deadline: June 24,
2007
The Train
The Trainer program aims to develop participants skills in training
development and delivery in order to generate optimum learning
outcomes and improved performance.
The training course is
based on Accelerated Learning methodology. Accelerated Learning is
based on the latest research on brain and learning. It is open and
flexible. It gets learners totally involved. It appeals to all
learning styles. It energizes and rehumanizes the learning process.
It seeks to make learning enjoyable. And it is solidity committed to
results, results, results.
What you will learn: Module 1:
Learning Theories: Brain friendly learning, Participant Learning
styles Module 2: Accelerated Learning: Accelerated Learning,
Phases of the learning cycle - A.C.T. -model, Developing educational
activities for each of the phases Module 3: Training Design
(Plan): The basic of Training Design, Planning a training,
Instructional Objectives, Developing learning materials Module 4:
Skills and Tools for Trainers: Strategies for presenting content,
Feedback, Debriefing Module 5: Intercultural
competences
Participation conditions ACT Association
will: * Cover 100% cost of accommodation and meals * Reimburse
100% of travel costs * Reimburse 100% of visa costs. There is
no participation fee.
More information Website:
www.act.org.ro http://train-the-trainer.ro/ttt-program E-mail:
act@act.org.ro
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Policy
Association for an Open Society - Tender for Innovative Joint
projects, or further Development/Replication in Other Countries of
Innovative Projects Application deadline:
June 29, 2007
This call is
open to PASOS members and other independent policy centres in
Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia that meet the
requirements of PASOS membership, but any proposal should include
the participation of policy centres from at least two countries
(including the main applicant). PASOS invites applications from
policy centres, including but not exclusive to PASOS members, to
submit innovative joint projects in one of the following
areas: (a) Governance & Democracy (b) European Union
Accession & European Neighbourhood Policy (c) Social Policy
& Education (d) Economic Policy &
Development.
Criteria: Innovative policy proposals in one of
the above areas will be developed, or further developed, and
advocacy conducted, to promote policy reforms or to disseminate the
policy ideas to other countries. Where appropriate, co-ordination
with the PASOS Secretariat on joint PASOS branding will be
stipulated as a requirement in the case of accompanying events or
publications, thus strengthening the joint advocacy potential of the
individual policy centres and further strengthening the PASOS brand
name. The project outcomes will be promoted on both the individual
policy centres’ websites and also the PASOS website.
Total
amount available under this call for proposals: EUR 25,000 (possibly
rising to a total of EUR 51,500 in June/July 2007, pending other
funding decisions. This development will be announced as soon as
further information is available).
More information Website:
http://www.pasos.org/www-pasosmembers-org/contacts/job-vacancies-courses-and-tenders/tender-for-innovative-joint-projects-or-further-development-replication-in-other-countries-of-innovative-projects E-mail:
jefflovitt@pasos.org (Jeff Lovitt, Executive Director)
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Women’s Human
Rights Training Institute 2007/2009, Bulgaria Application deadline: June 30,
2007
The
Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (BGRF), the Center for
Reproductive Rights (CRR) and the Network of East-West Women (NEWW)
and are pleased to announce a call for applications for the second
Women’s Human Rights Training Institute (WHRTI), 2007-2009. The
first WHRTI was held in 2004 - 2006.
The goal of the
Institute is to strengthen the ability of lawyers from Central and
Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and the Caucasus to litigate cases
concerning women’s human rights, particularly, violence against
women, sexual and reproductive health and rights and employment
discrimination, at the national, regional and international levels
through the development of feminist legal analysis and litigation
skills, cross-border cooperation, and networking.
The WHRTI
is a two-year, four-part series of workshops bringing together the
same group of fifteen participants over the course of the training.
Through both technical workshop sessions on the European Court of
Human Rights, European Court of Justice, and United Nations treaty
body mechanisms, as well as substantive training sessions on
violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and rights,
and employment discrimination, the Institute will build the needed
analysis, skills and networks among lawyers required to successfully
seek justice for women.
Successful applicants are required to
commit to participate in the entire two-year, four-workshop
Institute series. The organizers encourage lawyers from Central and
Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Caucasus, who are willing
to make this two-year commitment. Selected participants will be
required to actively participate in all four sessions, including
pre-session preparation and inter-session activities.
The
working language of the WHRTI is English.
The Institute is a
two-year series of four sessions beginning in the Fall 2007. Each
session will last approximately 4-5 days every six
months.
Applications will be accepted from lawyers from any
country in CEE, the Baltic States and the Caucasus. A total of 15
participants will be selected. Successful applicants will
have: 1. Law degree. 2. A commitment to feminist jurisprudence
and to using the law creatively to secure redress for women’s rights
violations. 3. A professional relationship with an institution or
NGO for at least one year prior to applying for participation in the
Institute, preferably with an NGO or institution that focuses on
women’s human rights and that has the capacity to litigate cases on
women’s rights issues or that has experience with litigation. 4.
Interest and/or some theoretical knowledge of international and
regional human rights law. 5. Fluency in spoken and written
English, and advanced English language comprehension of legal
texts.
Participant travel, accommodation and per diem costs
for participation in each Institute workshop session will be
covered.
The applicants are required to complete the WHRTI
application form and submit all requested supporting documents
listed in the application form. The form and all supporting
documents must be submitted in one email and must be in English.
Please include ‘Application to WHRTI (2007-2009) in the subject
line.
More information Email:
application_institute@bgrf.org (Teodora Tsanovska and Genoveva
Tisheva)
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CERGE-EI -
Regional Research Competition in Social Sciences Application deadline: July 1,
2007
CERGE-EI,
with financial support provided by the Global Development Network
announces a research competition in all fields of the social
sciences. Proposals are invited from economists, demographers,
political scientists, sociologists, and other social scientists.
Projects with a significant commercial aspect or that propose
funding the distribution of previous results (such as book
preparation) rather than original research are explicitly excluded.
The sponsors have identified several priority areas of
research. While funding for research in other areas will be
provided, projects in these areas will receive priority: I.
Enterprise Development and Behavior including Corporate Governance
and Restructuring II. Labor Markets including Retirement, Social
Assistance and Health Economics III. Globalization including
Regional and International Economic Policy Coordination IV. The
Reform Process including Public Finance, Fiscal Burden, and
Taxation V. Education including Educational Policy, Reform,
Funding and Outcomes.
Maximum funding will be US $20,000
although it is expected that the vast majority of grants awarded
will be for substantially smaller amounts. Grants in excess of US
$15,000 will be granted only in exceptional cases. The median grant
awarded to start in January 2007 was approximately US $9,000. Grants
must begin no later than 31 December 2007 and end no later than 31
December 2008, although a six-month no-cost extension request may be
made during the year.
Applicants must be residents of any of
the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia (including areas
under the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo), Slovakia
and Slovenia. Applicants must be resident for the substantial
majority of each year in the country from which they are applying
although they may be of any nationality or citizenship. Graduate
students now outside of the region are encouraged to collaborate
with current residents but will not be considered residents unless
they provide credible evidence of an intention to return to Central
Europe after completion of their degrees (an example of such
evidence would be a binding labor contract with an employer granting
leave for study).
Applications may be submitted by
individuals or teams of researchers. In the latter case, at least
50% of the researchers must be residents of eligible countries. No
grant funds may be used to pay compensation to non-residents. Grant
funds may, however, be used to pay travel and other direct costs
required to enable participation by non-residents if such
participation serves a clear scientific purpose. No applicant can
submit or be a part of more than one proposal. Formal application
must be made by an institution with which the applicant is
affiliated and that will administer funds if awarded. No funds may
be paid directly to individuals. Examples of eligible institutions
include universities, research institutes or non-profit
organizations. Administrating institutions may charge no more than
10% of the total grant as overhead.
In the interest of
diversity, no grants will be made to persons who have served as a
principal researcher in a GDN Regional Research Competition-funded
grant in the past three years.
Funds will be released
one-third upon award of the grant, one-third upon receipt of a
progress report at the mid-point of the grant and one-third upon
receipt of final deliverables from the grant. Where this schedule
would result in a serious hindrance to the proposed research, the
applicant may petition for funds to be released on a different
schedule after award of the grant. Final deliverables must include
at least one formal research paper that has been submitted to an
international peer-reviewed journal. Proof of submission will be
required.
All successful applicants must agree to come to
Prague to present a seminar on the completed work at CERGE-EI’s
expense if requested. In addition we anticipate smaller workshops
involving recipients in the various thematic areas held either at
CERGE-EI or other regional institutes in order to facilitate
development of links across researchers.
More information Website:
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/gdn/regional_research_competition/call_for_proposals.asp E-mail:
research.competition@cerge-ei.cz
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BEST Board of
European Students of Technology - BEST Courses for Students of
Technology Application deadline: July 1, 2007
BEST, Board
of European Students of Technology, is a non profit student
organisation. It is run by students, working for students. BEST
organises different activities where students from member
universities get the opportunity to increase their international
experience, establish contacts, improve their English and have fun.
Each BEST Course is attended by 20-30 students of engineering.
Local BEST groups arrange short (1-2 weeks long) courses
during winter, spring and summer, where engineering students get the
chance to learn more about a specific topic in their field of
interest. BEST also organises seminars on educational issues,
engineering competitions and leisure events. In a learning event
participants attend lectures given by the university's teaching
staff or by experts from companies. They visit companies, industrial
plants or research centres and sometimes take part in case studies.
Topics of the learning events cover mainly different
technology fields, economics, marketing and management.
The
organising local BEST group takes care of accommodation and
subsistence during the entire event, transportation to lectures and
all activities related to the contents of the event, teaching and
material costs and social activities. Depending on the situation of
the local BEST group, there might be a participation fee: the
maximum fee is 4 Euro per day (but no more than 45 EUR in total) for
students from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the
Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Students from Germany, Greece,
Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain pay 2/3 of the fee. Students
from Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland and Slovakia pay 1/3 of the fee. Students from Bulgaria,
Macedonia FYR, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Turkey, Ukraine and
Russia pay no fee.
Who can apply: Students of technology
from universities with a Local BEST Group and students from
universities belonging to partner organisations.
How to
apply: Go to the BEST application system. Enter your email
address and your password, or register first if you don't have an
account yet. Enter the application to the BEST application system.
The organising local BEST group receives the applications, and make
a selection on regional aspects, the motivation letter and on
educational background of applicant. The organisers also aim at
having equal number of male and female participants.
More information Website:
http://www.best.eu.org/courses/courses.jsp
http://bas.best.eu.org/eventList.jsp E-mail:
info@BEST.eu.org
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UNDP Romania
- GEF Small Grants Programme Application
deadline: July 2, 2007
Launched in
1992, the Small Grants Programme (SGP) of the Global Environmental
Facility (GEF) started in Romania in 2004. Currently offered in more
than 100 countries, this programme complements the regular and
medium-sized GEF project funding. GEF SGP supports activities to
secure global environmental benefits in the areas of biodiversity
conservation, climate change, international waters, sustainable land
management and persistent organic pollutants through community-based
approaches that also generate local benefits.
The four
geographic areas of the country targeted by GEF SGP are: 1.
Maramures, Bistrita Nasaud, Suceava, Neamt, Harghita, Mures, Cluj,
Salaj, Bihor and Satu Mare counties 2. Galati, Braila, Tulcea and
Constanta counties 3. Caras Severin, Mehedinti and Hunedoara
counties 4. The Low Danube Green Corridor.
Project
proponents are strongly encouraged to address at least two GEF focal
areas in their proposals (i.e. biodiversity conservation and climate
change; international waters and biodiversity conservation;
sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation/ climate
change etc.). Emphasis will be put on addressing the climate change
focal area.
The maximum amount for a grant is USD 50,000,
with a minimum of 40% co-financing (recommended 50%), out of which
approximately 50% in cash and 50% in kind.
More information Website:
http://www.undp.ro/environment/sgp.php E-mail:
mihaela.dupleac@undp.org (GEF SGP National Coordinator)
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European
Commission DG Education and Culture - MEDIA 2007/2013 - Training
Application deadline: July 2,
2007
This is a
training programme for professionals in the European audio-visual
programme industry. It intends to help people in the audio-visual
industry to adapt to the European and international dimension of the
market by promoting continuous vocational training and the use of
new technologies.
The operational objectives of the MEDIA
Training are: 1. Strengthen the skills of European audiovisual
professionals in order to improve the quality and potential of
European audiovisual works. The programme will support action in the
following areas: - Training in new audiovisual technologies -
develop the professionals' capacity to use digital technologies, in
particular in their work fields. - Training in economic,
financial and commercial management - to develop the professionals'
ability to grasp and integrate the European dimension into their
work by improving expertise. - Training in script-writing
techniques - to enable experienced scriptwriters to improve their
capacities to develop techniques based on traditional and
interactive methods of writing. 2. Improve the European dimension
of audiovisual training activities: encourage exchanges and
cooperation, in supporting the networking between existing training
institutions and partners of the professional sector and the
training activities for trainers.
Priority for this call:
Exchanges and cooperation between Higher education institutions,
training organisations and partners in the professional sector. This
should contribute to the networking and mobility of students and
trainers in Europe. The cooperation of the European training
professionals will take the form of pan-European consortia. Each
consortium will put in place an associated work plan. This work plan
shall focus on audiovisual skills needs that are not sufficiently
met within Europe.
The maximum Community funding is 50% of
project costs.
Eligible Target Groups: - Students from
film schools or from any other Higher education institutions where
skills / competences applying to the audiovisual sector are taught
(for instance: business schools in case of future producers) -
Trainers from film schools or from any other Higher education
institutions where skills / competences applying to the audiovisual
sector are taught.
The programme is open to film and
television schools, universities, specialist vocational training
establishments, private companies from the industry and
organisations/professional associations specialising in the
audiovisual sector. Applications from individuals are not accepted.
Eligible applicant consortium: applicants must take the form of
pan-European consortia, which must be composed of at least 3
organisations, including minimum 2 Higher education institutions,
and coming from at least 3 countries participating in the MEDIA
Programme. Countries eligible to apply: 27 EU Member States, EEA
and EFTA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and
Switzerland.
More information Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/training/forms/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/training/guide/docs/guide2007.pdf
E-mail: infso-media@ec.europa.eu
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The European
Public Sector Award (EPSA) Application
deadline: July 15, 2007
Bertelsmann
Stiftung, Speyer University (DHV) and the European Group of Public
administration (Brussels) have announced a European award for public
administration.
The objective of the European Public Sector
Award - EPSA for short - is to motivate public authorities all over
Europe to exchange best practice with one another and jointly
advance the modernisation process. The EPSA unites the best and most
innovative operators in the public sector, thereby creating a
new-style learning platform. The EPSA is open to all fields of
public administration which managed to achieve extraordinary results
thanks to systematic improvements.
In 2007, the EPSA will
focus on three highly topical themes: Collaborative Governance,
Targeting with Scarce Resources, Coping with Demographic
Change.
More information Website:
http://www.eps-award.eu/home.0.html?&L=2
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Council of
Europe/European Commission - Partnership Programme on European Youth
Worker Training Application deadline: July
15, 2007
The
Partnership Programme between the European Commission and the
Council of Europe is a training programme promoting common values
such as human rights, pluralist democracy, active citizenship and
European co-operation. Both institutions are active in the field of
youth worker training in different ways and using different tools.
The courses are run in co-operation with the SALTO TR RC and they
will be implemented by the network of National Agencies of the Youth
In Action Programme.
The training courses on European
Citizenship aim to support the professional development of youth
workers and youth leaders by extending their critical understanding
of European Citizenship, exploring and experiencing its potential
and by enabling them to recognise and integrate European Citizenship
in their youth work.
The course is intended to address
individuals working with young people in a professional capacity on
a paid or voluntary basis (e.g. youth workers, youth leaders,
community and social workers, teachers), who: - Have experience
in directly developing and managing a project with and for young
people - Have organised or co-organised at least one youth
project with a European dimension - Are committed and motivated
to work directly with young people on issues related to European
Citizenship - Are supported by their organisation in their
current and future work - Have a general knowledge and
understanding of youth and youth work realities in their
contexts - Are motivated to undergo training and able to attend
the course for its full duration - Are able to work in English
- Are resident in a Member State of the Council of Europe or in
another country signatory to the European Cultural Convention.
Conditions: Participation in these Training Courses will
be free of charge for the selected participants (travel, visa and
accommodation costs will be covered by the Partnership and/or the
National Agencies, according to your country of origin).
How
to apply: If you are a national from one of the so-called
Neighbouring Partner Countries in Eastern Europe and Caucasus
(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine)
and in South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia),
please apply through the online application form:
http://www.extraweb.coe.int/team40/citizenship/default.aspx. If
you are national from one of the so-called Programme countries (i.e.
where there is a National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme),
please follow the procedure described on SALTO webpage:
http://www.salto-youth.net/EuropeanCitizenship/.
More information Website:
http://www.salto-youth.net/EuropeanCitizenship/ E-mail:
TrainingAndCooperation@salto-youth.net
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European
Commission DG Education and Culture - European Year of Intercultural
Dialogue 2008 Application deadline: July 31,
2007
The aim of
the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue is to present a wide
variety of enriching concrete projects that will be implemented in
the framework of EU programmes and other Community actions. The Year
of Intercultural Dialogue will encourage the mobilisation of civil
society and actors at the European, national and local levels.
Culture, education, youth, sport and citizenship are the main
implementation fields.
Overall objectives: - Promoting
intercultural dialogue as a process in which all those living in the
EU can improve their ability to deal with a more open, but also more
complex, cultural environment - Highlighting intercultural
dialogue as an opportunity to contribute to and benefit from a
diverse and dynamic society, not only in Europe but also in the
world - Raising the awareness of all those living in the EU, in
particular young people, of the importance of developing an active
European citizenship which is open to the world - Highlighting
the contribution of different cultures and expressions of cultural
diversity to the heritage and ways of life of the Member
States.
Specific objectives: - Seek to raise the
awareness of all those living in the EU, in particular young people,
of the importance of engaging in intercultural dialogue in their
daily life - Work to identify, share and give a visible European
recognition to best practices in promoting intercultural dialogue
throughout the EU, specially among young people and children -
Fostering the role of education as an important medium for teaching
about diversity, increasing the understanding of other cultures and
developing skills and best social practices, and highlighting the
central role of the media in promoting the principle of equality and
mutual understanding - Raise the profile, increase the coherence
of and promote all Community programmes and actions contributing to
intercultural dialogue and ensure their continuity - Contribute
to exploring new approaches to intercultural dialogue involving
cooperation between a wide range of stakeholders from different
sectors.
There are two calls for proposals: an open call
which will support up to 10 trans-national European projects and a
restricted call of an additional 27 projects, one from each Member
State.
1. Open Call Support will be given to a limited
number of emblematic actions on a European scale aimed at promoting
intercultural dialogue, involving directly or otherwise reaching as
many people as possible, and highlighting achievements and
experiences on the theme of the European Year of Intercultural
Dialogue 2008. The aim is to raise awareness of the objectives of
the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 and to underline
the meaning and importance of intercultural dialogue, illustrating
various areas, methods and dimensions of intercultural dialogue in
the EU in a manner which is visible and attractive, particularly
(but not exclusively) to young people. Budget: each grant will
amount to between minimum EUR 200 000 and maximum EUR 400 000, and
the Commission contribution will not exceed 80 % of total eligible
cost. Eligible establishments/bodies/types of beneficiary: - A
public or private body having experience in the field of
intercultural dialogue and whose registered office is located in one
of the 27 EU Member States - Such bodies have to carry out their
activities at European level, alone or in the form of various
coordinated associations, and their structure and activities shall
have a potential influence at EU level
2. Restricted
call The restricted call aims to co-finance actions on a national
scale with a strong European dimension, directly involving or
otherwise reaching as many people as possible, with particular
attention being given to actions relating to civic education and
learning to appreciate other people and their differences. This
grant, which may cover up to 50% of total costs, will be awarded to
27 projects (one per Member State). Eligibility for this Call is
restricted to the national coordinating bodies responsible for the
coordination of the Year 2008 in each Member State.
More information Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/dialogue/open_07_2007_en.html
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/dialogue/restricted_08_2007_en.html
E-mail: isabel-maria.almeida@ec.europa.eu
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Global
Development Network - 2007 Most Innovative Development Project
Competition Application deadline: August 20,
2007
The Global
Development Network is now accepting submissions for the Eighth
Annual Global Development Awards and Medals Competition 2007.
Carrying prizes in cash and travel worth nearly $240,000, this is
the largest international competition on development research. Since
2000, nearly 3,700 scholars representing over 100 countries have
participated in this competition and nearly $2 million has been
distributed in prizes and conference expenses to finalists and
winners. This competition is unique in that it is open only to
researchers from developing and transition countries. The Awards and
Medals Competition is a competitive funding mechanism established by
mutual cooperation between GDN and the Government of Japan.
Finalists are invited at GDN’s expense to present proposals at the
Ninth Annual Global Development Conference, Brisbane, January 2008.
The five themes selected for this year’s competition are:
* Fragile States: Addressing Vulnerability * Household
Exposure to Risk: Effects on Poverty * The Rule of Law: Providing
Security for Development * Women’s Rights, Security and
Development: Challenges and Opportunities * Natural Resources:
Risks and Implications for Sustaining
Development.
Submissions will be accepted in three
categories: 1. Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on
Development FOR: outstanding research proposals that provide new
dimensions to development research on any of the five selected
themes 2. Medals for Research on Development FOR: excellent
completed research papers on any of the five selected themes 3.
Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project FOR:
on-going development projects which present proposals for expanding
projects with the maximum potential for impacting local
communities.
More information Website:
http://www.gdnet.org/2007awards
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The Centre
for Advanced Study Sofia - Fellowships programme 2007/2008 Application deadline: August 30,
2007
The Centre
for Advanced Study Sofia (Bulgaria) announces a Call for
Applications for fellowships under the international research
project ‘Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist
Societies (Case Studies in Law, Higher Education and Science)’,
supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern
Europe and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany.
The
2007/2008 fellowship programme is open to doctoral and post-doctoral
researchers from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia working in the area of the social
sciences and humanities.
Four researchers working in the area
of the social sciences and humanities will be enrolled as Fellows
for a period of 9 months.
The programme envisages several
workshops and individual research. Non-Bulgarian Fellows are
expected to attend the 3 working sessions during their fellowship
period. They may spend research periods of varying length in Sofia
(negotiable in each individual case).
The selected Fellows
will receive a stipend of 700 Euro (for Bulgarian Fellows) and of
915 Euro (for foreign Fellows) per month which sum includes an
allowance for accommodation, research trips and research expenses.
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia provides the academic,
organisational and administrative support of the research. All
technical and library facilities of the Centre will be made
available to the Fellows.
Eligibility · Scholars working
in the social sciences or the humanities from Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, holders
of a doctoral degree or at the final stage of fulfilling the
equirements for such a degree · Although the present Call is
limited to scholars whose project proposals relate to the field of
law, the individual topics may also interlace with the other two
fields envisaged by the project (eg. examining science/education
from the point of view of legal aspects, etc.) · Applicants may
not be older than 45 years at the start of the
fellowship.
The Fellows will work in an international
research team, where all discussions, workshops and other events
will be in English, as should be the final research paper to be
submitted for publication. Only applicants fluent in English (oral
and written) will be considered and a certificate or another proof
of language proficiency is highly recommended.
The
application package must be submitted by e-mail to the contact
person indicated below and must include: 1. Research proposal (no
more than 1500 - 1800 words) including: · a short description of
the planned research · methodology · contribution to the
overall research aims of the Shaken Order project · general
framework of interpretation · selected bibliography (10-15 works)
on the topic. 2. CV and list of publications 3. Optional: a
relevant text (chapter of a dissertation, publication, etc.) of up
to 25 pages 4. Two recommendation letters from distinguished
scholars (scanned/ faxed/ posted/ sent via e-mail by the
reviewers).
Criteria governing the selection: innovative
insights, relevance of the project proposal to the frame of the
collective project, interdisciplinary approach, comparative
approach, relation to other projects in the prospective team
structure, important publications on the topic, previous
participation in research teamwork.
More information Website:
http://www.cas.bg/?cy=1&lang=1&a0i=1107&a0m=readEvent&a0p_id=1161590711 E-mail:
cas@cas.bg kolarska@cas.bg
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AIESEC
Azerbaijan and Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of
Azerbaijan - 5th Black Sea Youth Congress, June 30 - July 3, 2007,
Baku, Azerbaijan Application deadline: June
15, 2007
The theme of
the Congress is ‘Developing Socially Responsible Leaders’. The main
objective of the event is to bring most active and talented young
people from Black Sea Economic Cooperation region and build a better
partnership between 12 member and 13 observer countries.
These countries are: Member: Republic of Albania,
Republic of Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bulgaria,
Georgia, Hellenic Republic, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian
Federation, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Turkey,
Ukraine Observer: Republic of Austria, Republic of Belarus,
Republic of Croatia, Czech Republic, Arab Republic of Egypt,
Republic of France, Federal Republic of Germany, State of Israel,
Republic of Italy, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, Republic of
Tunisia, United States of America.
All costs including food
and accomodation, city tours and transportation within Azerbaijan
will be covered by organizers. There is NO participation and
delegate fee.
More information Website:
http://www.aiesec.net/web/azerbaijan/home/ E-mail:
mariavaulina@mail.ru (Ms. Maria
Vaulina) Bakhtiyar.Hajiyev@aiesec.net
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Slovene
Anthropological Society - ’Life in the Times of Conflict’
Conference, September 27—30, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia Application deadline: June 15,
2007
Conflicts
are one of the few constants in our everyday lives which can be
observed in all areas of human existence - in social and biological
ones and in the relations between them. Because of their prevalence
people stop noticing these conflicts and accept them as normal,
logical or even natural. This conference will provide a forum for
scholarly discussion of conflicts in contemporary time-from
generational conflicts, arising from the ageing of population in the
most developed countries, conflicts between the rural and urban, of
growing conflicts based on cultural, ethnic, religious and national
grounds, which are being triggered by the fear of globalisation and
loss of traditional group identities, conflicts between human
biology and society, which arise from the technological development
that changes the patterns of everyday life and provoke the change in
human physical development, paralyses human phy! sical activity and
causes the so called civilization illnesses, such as hart-diseases
and cancer, to conflicts between science and society, characterised
by the rapid growth of scientific knowledge and by the diminishing
value of science in contemporary society, where the power of
scientific argumentations is being substituted by often ignorant
political decisions.
We welcome and encourage the
participation of students, faculty, educators, and community members
in these important conversations. Proposals should address the theme
of the conference from any disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, or
trans-disciplinary perspective. We invite scholarly work from a
variety of traditional academic disciplines and approaches.
Proposals from graduate students and professionals/practitioners are
encouraged. Proposals for individual papers, panels, symposiums,
film/documentary screenings, posters and other creative endeavours
that address the conference theme are solicited.
Proposals
for panels, symposia and alternative formats should not exceed 1000
words. Proposals for individual papers should not exceed 200 words.
Proposals will be judged on quality of scholarship, relevance to the
conference theme, and likely interest to audience. A program
committee will evaluate proposals in a blind review process. The
proposals should consist of a narrative description of the
presentation and should describe its relationship to the conference
theme. The descriptions should not contain the names of the
presenters. Names of the presenters, chair, and participants should
be sent on a separate sheet, and should include contact information
and institutional affiliation, if applicable.
Presenters of
Individual papers will have approximately 20 minutes to present
their work.
A proposal for a symposium should provide
information on the general theme, and describe each presentation,
including a title for each. Symposiums will have a time limit of 90
minutes including time for a discussant, if applicable. Time should
be allocated for audience participation.
Panel presentations
are more flexible in that panellists could discuss a topic as a
group rather than giving individual papers. Panel proposal should
describe the session and its significance. Panels will be scheduled
for 90 minutes, and must include time for audience
participation.
Proposals for alternative presentations such
as films, documentaries, performances, posters or other creative
endeavours will be accepted and judged on the basis of their
relationship to the theme, and the quality of the proposal.
Alternative presentations will have 90 minute time blocks and should
also allow for audience participation.
More information Website:
http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/index_eng.html
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International
Forum Bosnia - ‘Unity and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Public
Life’ Conference, August 12 – 14, 2007, Mostar, Bosnia and
Herzegovina Application deadline: June 15,
2007
The
conference aim is to set in motion changes in knowledge, views and
approaches in the interpretation and application of modern and
traditional understandings of the relationship between religion and
public life. The entire conference is conceived as a long-term
exercise in building on developing international networks for this
type of exchange of knowledge, views and approaches. The organizers
believe that this will contribute to an interpretation of religion
as an active factor of peace and act as a barrier to its abuse by
ethno-national, ethno-religious and by other ideologies, tensions
and conflicts.
The conference will be centred on three
roundtables: Unity and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Civil
Society; The ‘Roma Question’ in Europe; Religion and Public Life.
The three panels are all linked into one comprehensive conference
structure whose goal is to develop new understandings of the
intersection of religion and public life.
The conference
programme will include researchers from all over the world, as well
as participants in various enterprises focused on understanding and
strengthening trust among different collective identities in
contemporary societies. Participants in the International Conference
are thus expected to take away from the experience both new analytic
skills as well as practical insights into their own situation in
their home countries and possible modes of implementing change. The
combination of serious academic study, with attention to the
practical dimensions of the problems studied within a new
international network of like minded and concerned participants and
organizers presents the possibility of developing skill sets of a
unique nature in this realm. Participants of the Second
International Conference Unity and Plurality in Europe will be
selected by means of a public call. Participation fee is 200 EUR. It
includes accommodation, food, materials and informal activities.
More information Website:
http://www.ifbosna.org.ba/bosanski/saopcenja/saopcenja/stolac2007/index.html E-mail:
ifbosna@bih.net.ba
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University of
Split - ‘Global Integration of Graduate Programmes’ Conference,
Split, Croatia Application deadline: June 15,
2007 (for submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper
drafts (2000-5000 words)
Educational
experts from Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Spain,
France, Germany, Greece, UK and other countries will attend. It will
discuss general issues involved in designing and running graduate
programmes with institutions from different countries including
accreditation and quality assurance.
A key aspect of the
European Higher Education Area that will become operational in 2010
is convergence. It has therefore been decided to centre the
conference around convergence issues. In particular, we will examine
four levels - the European level (which includes the Tempus
Programme), the National level ( focussing on the link between the
Ministries and their Institutions), the University level and the
Project Level i.e. the Graduate Programmes
themselves.
Conference Themes All issues involved in
successful implementation of international partnerships are
important to this conference. It has been decided to look at these
from four levels: The European Level, The Ministry of Education, The
University Level, The Programme Level.
The standard
conference fee will be Ł250 but there is a 50% discount for
participants from TEMPUS-CARDS, TEMPUS-MEDA, and TEMPUS-TACIS
countries.
The abstract should give an overview of your main
thesis, methods by which you plan to support your ideas and if
appropriate a description of the case study you will present.
More information Website:
http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~gigp2003/gigp2007/index.htm E-mail:
mohamed.loutfi@sunderland.ac.uk
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Collected
Volume on Women's Lives, Gender Relations and State Policy in
Central and Eastern Europe under State Socialism Application deadline: June 15,
2007
Scholars
working on gender and socialism in Central and Eastern Europe are
invited to submit a 500-word abstract of an essay for a collected
volume examining post-89 approaches to the study, research and
analysis of women's lives and issues of gender under state
socialism.
The wealth of human and archival sources that have
become available since the collapse of communism, combined with the
increased use of cultural, social, gender, and oral history in
studies of socialism, have provided crucial insight into gender in
socialist societies - both as it was discursively represented and
lived on an everyday level. This in turn has facilitated a more
nuanced and complex understanding of women under socialism that
challenges the bleak and homogenized portraits of women that were
produced - in both feminist and non-feminist scholarship-prior to
and immediately after 1989.
The new scholarship presented in
this collected volume will draw on oral and written, statistical and
archival sources that have become available to researchers since the
dismantling of the Soviet Bloc. Scholars are invited to address
thematic issues that have been especially fruitful and insightful
for understanding gender roles and relations under socialism as well
as broader methodological, theoretical, and historical issues
surrounding gender as an analytical category in investigations of
socialism.
We welcome submissions on a diversity of topics,
which might include but are not limited to the following: the role
of socialist women's organizations and the socialist media in
reformulating gender roles and relations and in politicizing women's
lives; changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality
under socialism; women's roles as workers, mothers, and consumers;
gender and resistance; feminist discourse in the era of state
socialism; the interplay between official discourses and subjective
experiences in shaping gender roles and identities under socialism;
revisiting feminist debates regarding the ‘evidence of experience’
with regard to gender and socialist Eastern Europe; everyday life as
a site of resistance, negotiation, or complicity; the politics of
gender and memory in the study of socialist and post-socialist
societies.
Additionally, we ask contributors to discuss their
methodologies in the context of their departures from pre-1989
scholarship. We also invite scholars from Eastern Europe to address
the institutional barriers to conducting and disseminating gender
research in their respective countries. Moreover, we are interested
in studies of the process and products of major transnational
research projects begun in the 1990s, such as the transnational
Women's Memories Project coordinated by the Prague Gender Studies
Center.
More information E-mail:
jmassino@bowdoin.edu (Jill Massino Shana Penn, Program of Gender
Studies Center for Jewish Studies)
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The Institute
for Social and European Studies - XIIth Annual International Savaria
Summer University ‘Meetamorphosis of Europe. Enlargement and
Beyond’, June 25 - July 6, 2007, Koszeg, Hungary Application deadline: June 18, 2007 (for applicants
who DO NOT need a visa to come to Hungary)
The Savaria
International Summer University provides a transnational-European
public space where students, academics, writers, activists,
diplomats and politicians from numerous countries and regions can
come together and freely discuss, debate and deliberate issues of
common concern from divided societies to networked societies, from
the consumer civilization to a new European
civilization.
This year’s title is ‘Europe’s New
Neighborhoods: Enlargement and Beyond’. We plan to devote special
attention to the promises and challenges of reinvigorated regional
cooperation in Europe, especially in the Visegrad-4, the Balkans and
Turkey. These discussions will of course be placed in a global
context of living and working together in an increasingly diverse
and divided European and global space. At the same time, because it
is the 475th anniversary of the Siege of Koszeg by the Ottomons and
Ibrahim Pasha, special programs, both cultural and academic, will be
related to the important historic relations between Europe and the
Ottomans and the future and importance of EU-Turkey
relations.
The XIIth SISU will address the following topics:
Possibilities and Challenges for a better V-4 Cooperation: The
Future of V-4 Cooperation; Re-Inventing Central Europe: New Ways to
Build Identity; The Role of the V-4 Role in Democratization of
Former CIS Societies; European Citizenship From the Balkans to the
Baltics: Amber Road Reconstruction; Understanding New
Interdependence: Challenges of Reconciliation; The Future of
EU-Turkey Relations: The EU’s Neighborhood Policy; New European
Civilization; Concrete Forms of Cooperation in South East and East
Central Europe: Cultural Aspects of a New Neigborhood Policy; Islam
and Christianity: Is Diversity Managable?; 475 Years Later: The
Ibrahim-Jurisich Syndrome.
Besides presentations and
seminars, students will work in groups to create recommendations and
proposals which will be published by ISES. ISES will issue ECTS
credits for completing the Summer University upon fulfillment of the
requirements of a presentation and paper and payment of per credit
fee. A certificate will be awarded only to those who participate in
the full course of the program.
Participation Fee is Euro 400
which includes room and board. A limited number of scholarships are
availible. Please contact our administration.
Your
application should consist of: - Completed application form -
CV (education, work experience, languages, scholarships and
awards).
More information Website: www.ises.hu
www.european-studies.hu E-mail:
maatkoszeg@gmail.com 2007SISU@gmail.com
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Gender
Alliance for Development - Gender & Social Change in Albania's
Transition Application deadline: June 20,
2007
The Gender
Alliance for Development, in cooperation with Cordaid (Netherlands),
invites submissions for an edited collection on Gender and Social
Change in Albania's Transition. The collection intends to address
the current gap in academic literature in this area by providing a
detailed depiction of changing gender relations since the early
1990s.
The invitation is open to researchers working on
gender issues in Albania.
Topics may include (but are not
restricted to) the following areas: The impact of social movements /
civil society on gender relations, Gender and citizenship, Gender,
politics and public policy, Gender and education, International
organisations and gender mainstreaming, Gender and contemporary
media, Neo-traditionalism, Changing family structures, norms and
values / Domestic violence, Gender and migration, Gender and EU
integration, SEE regional/European comparative studies,
Sexualities.
Interested contributors are asked to send a
500-word abstract and a current CV. Abstracts may be submitted in
English or Albanian. The final publication will be in both
languages. Contributors will be notified of selected abstracts by
mid-July. Selected authors will receive a small honorarium for their
contribution.
More information E-mail: info@gadc-al.org
(Dr Eglantina Gjermeni, Executive Director)
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Sarajevo
Talent Campus, August 20 - 25, 2007 Application deadline: June 21,
2007
Sarajevo
Film Festival is proud to announce that the First Sarajevo Talent
Campus, a new educational programme dedicated to young filmmakers
from South-eastern Europe, as part of the 13th Sarajevo Film
Festival. SFF is organizing this project in cooperation with the
Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlin International Film Festival.
Young filmmakers and students from all around the Region can
apply via an online application form. Sarajevo Talent Campus will
provide free accommodation and a share of travel expenses will be
reimbursed to all selected participants.
More information Website:
www.sff.ba E-mail: talent-campus@sff.ba
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Caucasus
Journal of Social Sciences - Call for papers Application deadline: June 30,
2007
The Caucasus
Journal of Social Sciences is a new peer reviewed interdisciplinary
journal devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and continuing inquiry
into the ways in which human communities form and work together.
Papers deal with all aspects of social systems, from interpersonal
to international. The goal is to create a top quality journal that
reflects both a high degree of university scholarship and a concern
for the human person in community.
We accept articles based
on congruence with the purpose of the Journal, importance of the
contribution to existing literature, conceptual and written clarity,
and sound methods. Manuscripts submitted to the Caucasus Journal of
Social Sciences may not be published elsewhere except with written
consent of the Journal. We accept only original papers (not
published or accepted for publication elsewhere). If human subjects
are used, include a statement to indicate institutional Internal
Review Board (IRB) approval of the research.
Instructions for
Authors · Articles are 3,000 to 5,000 words, double-spaced with
one-inch margins. · Send an electronic copy (IBM format MS Word)
with a cover letter to via e-mail to the editor. · You may send a
disk in IBM format MS Word as a substitute for the e-mail. ·
Include all citations in the text. List them alphabetically at the
end of the article in the References section. · Use APA
Publication Manual guidelines. (For assistance, see
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/) · Include
contact information for each author (affiliation, address,
telephone, and e-mail address) and a short biographical sketch. ·
Include a brief abstract, no longer than 60 words. · Use English
or Georgian with an abstract in each language and in Russian. ·
Use 12-point Times New Roman for English versions; 12-pointAcadNusx
for Georgian; and 12-point rus_courier for Russian. · We welcome
camera-ready graphics and photographs, PowerPoint files, and .jpg
files.
More information E-mail:
Kenpgoff@gmail.com, kgoff@guss.edu.ge (Ken Goff, Dean of the School
of Languages, Georgian University of Social Sciences)
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emcLab -
EUROPE in your eyes Application deadline:
June 30, 2007
The
announcement is aimed at all European artists or residents of any
European country which are developing artistic and/or experimental
on new technology. Those works produced by teams composed of artists
from different countries will be favourably considered. The slogan
for this official announcement is: EUROPE in your
eyes.
emclab is a european digital plataform to the
experimentation and the development of art projects on new
technologies.
General regulations: - Works/projects must
have been produced after January 1st, 2005. - The number of
works/projects is not limited. - Projects may be presented in any
language. The translate must be included in Spanish or English, in
case of being selected. - The organization may use parts of the
works for media broadcasting, within the promotional framework of
e=mc25. - Following the process of selection, all participants
will be notified in writing of the result, and the required
presentation formats of their work. - Authors will be responsible
for copyright of their works. - Works/projects selected will be
exhibited in e=mc25. - A catalogue will be produced in Spanish
and English, including all the works /projects. - Artists with
works selected shall agree to assign a copy to e=mc25, which may be
used in the subsequent exhibitions. - The organization is not
responsible for the content of works in order to preserve
freedom. - Submission of a works/projects implies the acceptance
of these regulations. -The cities conecction to be at spring
2008.
More information Website:
www.emc25.org/platform.htm E-mail: emclab@emc25.org
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IN-DIFFERENCE
festival, November 2007, Belgrade, Serbia Application deadline: July 1,
2007
This year's
edition of IN-DIFFERENCE festival is dedicated to various
interpretations of the body in all artistic medias (performances,
installations, video, photography, music, etc.). Also includes
demonstrations of body modifications or photo documents of body
modifications (piercing, suspensions, branding, scarping,
bodybuilding, etc.).
The festival covers accommodation and
production of the works, a travel expanse has to be covered by the
chosen applicant. Participation on the festival is free. All
interested to participate please send a proposal of your work(s),
short statement (only English) and CV (CV is not obligatory) by
e-mail.
More information E-mail:
vipartgallery@yahoo.com
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’Telos,
Ethos, Demos and the Future of the European Integration Process’
Summer School, August 20 – 26, 2007, Vama Veche, Romania Application deadline: July 14,
2007
The
Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies is a
forum of intellectual discussions and research, as well as a
platform of training and upgrading for undergraduates and young
professionals from both western and eastern countries. One of the
Institute's constant themes of research and debate has been the
European integration viewed as a particularly dynamic and
challenging process. The topic has been explored for the last 13
years under the form of summer schools organized by the Institute in
cooperation with the Black Sea University Foundation, and, later on,
with the European Cultural Centre, Bucharest, at Mangalia and Vama
Veche, in Romania.
The 2007 seminar will focus on the
desirability and feasibility of a common telos, demos and ethos for
the upcoming European Union. Telos: Should the finality of the
European integration process be determined expressis verbis ? If so,
what should be the ultimate aim: a full-fledged political community
or above all an economic union? Might the search for a common telos
prove divisive and thus counterproductive? Ethos: Is the EU bound
to be a community of values? Does it make sense to put forward a
catalogue of common values going beyond those that have been agreed
upon in the constitutional text? Demos: How important is the
emergence of a European people for the success of the European
endeavour? How to bring about a common European awareness and
we-feeling? How to involve European citizens and nations more
directly and more strongly into the European political process?
Who should attend? Students, young researchers and
professionals interested in the topic, representatives of higher
educat-ion, of specialized institutions, of political parties, of
NGO's, of the mass-media.
The working language is
English.
Course fee: 365 Euro/1,170 RON. The cost of 365 Euro
includes participation fee, accommodation in double rooms with own
bathroom and all meals. A limited number of scholarships is
available for undergraduates.
All candidates are kindly
requested to send the filled in Application Form together with
Curriculum Vitae, Letter of Intention, Two Letters of
Recommendation, Two page Essay (on a topic of the
seminar).
More information E-mail: cti@clicknet. ro
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No Mediation:
Re-imagining democracy through art Application deadline: July 20,
2007
Online
journal Re-public www.re-public.gr/en invites contributions for its
upcoming special issue entitled ‘NO MEDIATION: Re-imagining
democracy through art’. While the political institutions of
contemporary Western democracies are currently facing a crisis of
representation, art is increasingly associated with the explosion of
novel democratic mediums, forms and processes. From YouTube to
Flickr, from graffiti to street art, new media are opening up the
field of art to processes of democratization of the means of
creative expression allowing more and more people indeed,
potentially everyone- to become an artist. The exhaustively
discussed relationship between art and power seems to have finally
missed the conjunction ‘and’: art is in itself becoming a space of
democratic experimentation in multiple ways. Art works are focusing
on new micropolitical and biopolitical themes, they are! inventing
new forms of creativity, and are constructing new social networks.
The special issue aims to address this potentially new relationship
between art and democracy.
Papers should revolve around the
following questions: · Do the new media mark the ultimate
democratization or the ultimate commercialization of art? · Are
micropolitical and biopolitical art works already engaged into
processes of re-imagining democracy? In which directions? · Is
art becoming the space of the political per se, where new democratic
forms are negotiated and dispersed through new
technologies?
Essays should be approximately 1.500 words
long.
We also invite other types of contributions:
photographs, video art, cartoons, music, short stories, poems, which
will either be published in the journal or displayed in a separate
public exhibition scheduled for October 2007 in Athens,
Greece.
More information Website:
http://www.re-public.gr/en E-mail:
phatzopoulos@re-public.gr
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Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology – ‘Social Figurations of Violence
and War Beyond the State’ Workshop, February 21 – 22, 2008,
Halle/Saale, Germany Application deadline:
July 31, 2007
Weak states,
state failure and state decay are catchwords utilised to describe
transformations of the global and local political order based on the
state. Most of these publications draw on a rather 'absolutist view'
of the state, imagining it as the sole founder and main guarantor of
law and order and hence the main source of social rules, norms and
values guiding the everyday life of its people. Putting into
question such state-centric approaches, empirical studies have
meanwhile revealed that alternative forms of social regulation and
governance may be prevalent under the cover of formal state control,
either because the state has not managed or because it has not
intended to extend its power into all (peripheral) areas and/or
social fields within its demarcated territory.
Such social
and territorial realms, in which violence is widespread and mainly
(though not necessarily exclusively) shaped and regulated by
non-state actors, and in which alternative sources of profit, power
and legitimacy have been established, are at the centre of this
workshop. Areas and societal niches of interest include: *
Remote/peripheral areas which are spatially and socially distinct
from the administrative state centers * Urban niches or 'ghettos'
shaped by (juvenile) delinquency and gang violence * Areas of
long lasting banditry * Zones of violent conflicts and war.
We invite contributions which scrutinise social actions and
processes taking place within such realms and/or during violent
conflicts and wars and which examine how a variety of social actors
- violent and non-violent, individual and collective, state and
non-state - are engaged in these social settings, how they interact,
which goals and world-views they follow, and how their interactions
(often unintentionally) shape the emergence of structures, social
rules and institutions which, in turn, regulate and transform the
daily practices within these settings.
The workshop's
overarching aim is to contribute to a deeper understanding of social
processes and institutions shaping violent orders beyond the state.
For that purpose we would like to bring together scholars from
different disciplines and with a variety of ideas, experiences and
expertise in this field of study.
The following interrelated
fields are envisaged for comparisons and in-depth analyses of
violent formations:
(1) Actors in violent settings: In order
to further develop and differentiate typologies of violent
formations, the workshop aims at bringing together in-depth studies
on 1) violent organisations such as gangs, mafia-type organisations,
insurgencies or warlord groups, and 2) non-violent organisations in
violent settings, such as business-groups, non-governmental
organisations, self-help groups, traditional or religious
authorities, intellectuals etc. It is not always easy to distinguish
violent from non-violent actors, since people/groups not directly
engaged in violence may nonetheless indirectly contribute to its
maintenance. Therefore, we would like to invite micro-studies that,
on the one hand, address the internal structures and organisational
principles, economic foundations and social anchorage of such
groups, their strategies to increase local and external support and
to find accomplices and recruits, and which, on the other hand,
focus on the questions how violent a! nd non-violent organisations
interact with each other at local, national and/or international
levels, and how these interactions influence dynamics of violence
and governance.
(2) Violence and legitimacy - power and
identity: Like all social actions, violence is embedded in a world
of meaning. Violent groups use ideological schism, myths, memories,
narratives and symbols to gain supporters as well as internal and
external legitimacy, and, on the other hand, to define enemies and
potential victims. These ideological and symbolic domains provide
mechanisms for both inclusion and exclusion, for claiming, according
and denying membership and all forms of entitlement. Daily practices
and legitimising discourses are, however, not free from
inconsistencies and may even contradict each other. Especially the
necessity to attract and satisfy external donors and, at the same
time, maintain internal support may lead to conflicting narratives
and actions. Central questions are, therefore, how violent groups or
different strata within violent settings cope with conflicting
requirements, and how narratives and mythologies reflect such social
realities, guide soc! ial actions and/or shape violent dynamics.
While current research has addressed the utilitarian, rational sense
of violence, the workshop aims at focussing on the under-researched
emotional and symbolic aspects of legitimising violence and violent
organisations. Heroism, glory, honour/dishonour or shame are
emotional drives in many violent settings. Furthermore, as such
'symbolic means of orientation' are also utilised to distinguish
insiders from outsiders, friends from foes, (potential) supporters
from (potential) enemies, and to determine what it requires and
means to be an in- or outsider respectively, they are also deeply
connected with the process of group membership, status and identity
formation.
(3) Violence, subjectivity and the body: In order
to lay open the historically and culturally shaped meanings of
violence, we need to shift perspectives from what is being done to
how things are done. This demands an ethnographic view, a
description and analyses of practices, features and modalities of
violent acts themselves. One field of such a close elaboration of
violent practices is the body. Sociological and historical studies
have elaborated on the connection between forms of violence, the
body and the creation of the modern subject. While they have
outlined that the political economy of the body reflects the
microphysics of power in that power relations are inscribed in the
body through drill, excruciation and the like, anthropologic studies
have contributed further studies on how the body is utilised to
define the own self, to demonstrate identity and to mark status, and
on how body emblems and markers serve as a medium of communication
with 'close' outsiders.
(4) Transformations of violent
orders: Social figurations of violence and war are dynamic phenomena
which may include processes of de-institutionalisation as well as
institutionalisation. While studies have concentrated on how formal
governance 'deteriorates' into social orders beyond the state, we
would like to direct the attention to local dynamics in violent
settings that favor the (re-)emergence of governance and
state-structures and to examine how local, national and
international actors interact and influence local reconstruction.
Some violent actors are not able to maintain their power positions
while others are quite successful in transforming into non-violent
organisations, acting as main political actor of the emergent
peaceful political and social order. A closer look at the
interactions between violent and non-violent actors in violent
settings may reveal the underlying dynamics responsible.
We
would like to encourage scholars and researchers from different
disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political science,
geography and history to send in their proposals. Case studies of
current as well as historical cases are both most welcome.
Contributions should address a specific context and explore one of
the fields outlined above. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages.
Travel and accommodation costs of paper-givers will be covered.
More information E-mail:
bakonyi@eth.mpg.de (Jutta Bakonyi)
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University of
Prishtina - Journal of Human Rights and Policy - Call for
papers Application deadline: July 31,
2007
The
University of Prishtina Journal of Human Rights and Policy, invites
scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students to submit
articles, essays, and book reviews for possible publication for its
winter 2007 edition.
The University of Prishtina Journal of
Human Rights and Policy is committed to publishing cutting-edge,
provocative, and thoughtful human rights and policy scholarship. Our
goal is to explore new directions and perspectives in the struggle
for a public order of human dignity.
Manuscripts should be
submitted with both text and footnotes typed and double-spaced.
Footnotes should comply with the Chicago Style of Citation. Please
consult The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. for details.
Additionally, The Chicago Manual of Style website at:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools.html provides a
comprehensive list of possible sources and their proper citation.
Please refer to the examples for the humanities notes style rather
than the examples for the author-date system. A separate
bibliography is not required.
In addition to the manuscript,
authors must include an accurate abstract of not more than 250
words, as well as a resume or CV. Authors must also ensure that
their submissions include an email address and phone number at which
they can be reached throughout the review period. We particularly
encourage the submission of articles and essays under 15,000 words
(including footnotes). These guidelines will be a factor in
consideration for publication. Please mention ‘Manuscript
Submission: [TITLE OF ARTICLE]’ in the subject
heading.
Manuscripts will be accepted with the understanding
that their content is unpublished previously. If any part of an
article or essay has already been published, or is to be published
elsewhere, the author must inform the Journal at the time of
submission. The Journal greatly appreciates all submissions and will
attempt to notify authors of acceptance or rejection as quickly as
possible.
The subject of the upcoming issue is: International
Intervention in the Balkans: Political, Economic, Legal and Military
Aspects. It aims to examine various dimensions of international
interventions and decision-making processes in the Balkans region,
including the role of international community, in particular
European Union, in the process of transforming the region into a
peaceful, more prosperous and self-sustainable place. A limited
number of articles not related to the said topic will also be
published.
More information E-mail:
qqerimi@yahoo.com (and a copy to: hrc@uni-pr.edu)
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eYouWiNS -
The European Youth Week in Novi Sad, August 19 – 26, 2007, Novi Sad,
Serbia
eYouWiNS -
The European Youth Week in Novi Sad is the first and the largest
student festival with a thematic focus in Serbia. eYouWiNS is
dedicated to youth and the students worldwide, and its mission is to
promote the spirit of cooperation and to link cultures, ideas and,
above all, people. We started in 2006 and in short time have gained
popularity among young people all over Europe.
The purpose of
eYouWiNS is to provide an opportunity for people to meet, talk and
discuss various issues and problems highlighting social and
political topics of international relevance. Our aim is to encourage
development of new ideas and friendships, and to enable learning
valuable lessons by giving a chance to all participants to develop
themselves and better understand their surrounding.
eYouWiNS
2007 is going one step ahead and this year invites 120 participants
to come to Novi Sad. The 2nd eYouWiNS invites young people around
the globe to come together and focus on discussion about correlation
between people, borders and education.
Participants fee for
eYouWiNS'07 is 35 EURO for all participants. It covers accommodation
and all meals during festival, field trips, workshop materials. In
participants fee is not included travel costs and personal expences.
Accepted participants will pay the participants fee on arrival, at
the registration.
More information Website:
www.eyouwins.com
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http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/
The Kontakt
program serves as a platform for the social and cultural commitment
of Erste Bank Group in the Central and Eastern European region.
Kontakt aims at actively supporting the social and cultural
transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe. We would
like to bring the people of this region together to work on common
ideas and perspectives.
In line with this objective, we take
our own initiatives and enter into partnerships. Our partners
include institutions, initiatives and artists that are involved in
cultural activities as well as in educational and social projects in
the Central and Eastern European area.
We would like to
introduce ‘Report’, a newsletter that seeks to provide you with
information on arts, sciences and social issues in Central and
Eastern Europe. The newsletter is published ten times a year and
brings up-to-date information on new projects and articles and the
latest events.
The newest ‘Report’ has a focus on ‘Women in
the East and in the West’. While reading you also might find it
astonishing how the relationship between women and men can serve as
a seismograph on the condition of a society, its identity. On
account of this, and against a background of increasing
globalisation and in context of a need for a new national and social
self-discovery, above all in Eastern Europe, current themes such as
equal rights between men and women, the rearing of children and the
family are being so emotionally and intensively debated.
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www.worldsecuritynetwork.com
The World
Security Network Foundation (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com) has
recently established an office in Athens-Greece, covering the South
Eastern Europe region. It will function as a networking platform for
interested parties in the fields of journalism, political analysis,
NGO members, academics and in general all regional individuals and
organizations engaged in multilateral peripheral
relations.
Currently 10 individuals across the region
participate; and they are able to network between them, exchange
information and data on regional affairs (Scholarships,
publications, conferences etc), as well as, present their work in
WSN Foundation and RIEAS Institute (www.rieas.gr), its collaborating
research centre in Greece.
Currently interested individuals
from Bulgaria, Slovenia,Croatia,Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Georgia,
Armenia and Ukraine are encouraged to communicate with the WSN
Office.
E-mail: ioannis@worldsecuritynetwork.com (Ioannis
Michaletos) ianos24@gmail.com
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http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/esc/seesox
South East
European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) is pleased to announce the
publication of two policy reports resulting from brainstorming
sessions at Oxford's European Studies Centre: 1. Political and
Economic Developments in the Balkans: Is There a Critical Mass for
Reform? (May 2007) 2. Cyprus After Accession: Getting past 'No'?
(May 2007)
South East European Studies at Oxford focuses on
the study of contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in
the region, including the post-communist Balkan countries, Greece,
Turkey and Cyprus, the region's relationship with the EU, as well as
the relations between the countries themselves. Through its
activities and research output, the programme seeks to foster
academic analysis on current events and to come up with
policy-relevant prescriptions. By bringing together academics,
policy makers and students, it aims to support the debate on
transition, reconstruction, development, conflict resolution and
European integration and to promote mutual knowledge and
understanding in areas of tension and conflict.
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http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com/
Peace and
Collaborative Development Networking
This is a free
professional networking site to encourage interaction between
individuals & organizations worldwide involved in development,
peace, conflict resolution and related fields. Members are
encouraged to dialogue and share resources.
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http://www.roma-kosovoinfo.com/index.php?lang=en
This website
is designed to provide information on the state of human rights for
the Roma people in Kosovo. You can find the latest news and
background information on the deportations of Kosovo-Roma from
European Union member states. In addition, we present inquiries and
analyses pertaining to the expulsion of Roma from the Kosovo in the
aftermath of the Kosovo War in 1999.
Currently, most articles
are available in German only. Texts in the ‘latest news’ section are
posted in English as well, and many reports by international human
rights organisations are published in English (see section
‘Downloads’).
E-mail: mail@roma-kosovoinfo.com
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http://www.culturelink.org/publics/joint/cultid08/index.html
The Creative
City: Crossing Visions and New Realities in the Region, Edited by
Nada Švob-Đokić, Culturelink Joint Publications Series
The
Creative City: Crossing Visions and New Realities in the Region is a
collection of papers from the postgraduate course on Cultural
Transitions in Southeastern Europe. The book gathers contributions
by 17 authors who analyze the position of cities and their cultural
role in the countries of Southeastern and Central Europe. This
analysis is presented through two major chapters. The first deals
with conceptual frameworks of the creative city debate, while the
second offers case studies from the region: Ljubljana, Budapest,
Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Tirana, Belgrade, Pančevo and Skopje. The
volume also contains four appendices that include a detailed report
on the postgraduate course, short biographies of the authors, the
programme of the course and the list of participants. The book can
be ordered through the order form on the website.
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Preying on
the State. The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 - Venelin I.
Ganev, Cornell University Press
Immediately
after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend
with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the
state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive
obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant
characteristic was no longer its overweening powerfulness, but
rather its utter decrepitude. Consequently, the role of the central
state in managing economies, providing social services, and
maintaining infrastructure came into question. Focusing on his
native Bulgaria, Venelin I. Ganev explores in fine-grained detail
the weakening of the central state in post-Soviet Eastern
Europe. http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4675
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http://www.balkanbook.com/
Balkan
Reading Room
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