Текущие гранты, стипендии, учеба за границей, тренинги и конференции

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Start Date: 1 February, 2007 Deadline: 30 September, 2007
Tech Age Girls is back for a third year to give Uzbekistan’s most promising young women leaders the chance to develop their IT skills and take leading roles in their communities. Apply by March 1 to be part of an exciting project that gives special opportunities to a select group of young women, and helps them become Uzbekistan’s leaders of the 21st century.
Tech Age Girls started in Uzbekistan in 2005. Through Tech Age Girls 2005 and 2006 projects:
- more than 250 personal Web pages were created;
- semifinalists created more than 60 resources about women leaders;
- 10 websites of government organizations were created ;
- over 1,000 women received computer and Internet training for educational and professional development, including 10
women with disabilities;
- 150 women created websites and blogs;
- more than 30 blogs were created.
The project was recognized by the Development Gateway (http://www.developmentgateway.org/award) in 2006 for its
contribution to helping women through technology.
Girls between the ages of 12 and 16 on July 31, 2007.
The use of technology is expanding in Uzbekistan, yet young women still face limited access due to social barriers. As a result of limited access, young women in Uzbekistan are not fully equipped with competitive IT skills in school, as they enter the workplace, or participating in society. To address this issue, Tech Age Girls selects promising young women and builds on past successes, while offering opportunities for girls to participate in a leadership and IT training program. Tech Age Girls provides the promise of developing community leaders, as participants contribute to local communities while developing vital skills.
The “Tech Age Girls 2005-2006” projects did much to encourage female initiative to lead technology and social projects in the regions of Uzbekistan and lifted girls’ statuses in their communities. It is imperative to build on this success and continue to offer such opportunities to girls with the promise to develop into school community leaders. Tech Age Girls 2007 will expand the group of leading young women trained in advanced IT skills and develop their ability to become exemplary leaders in their communities. Actuality of the project increases in the year of “Social Protection” in 2007 in Uzbekistan.
Подробности на этом сайте http://www.connect.uz/project.php?PH...8a986af&id=124
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Вот все текущие конкурсы с этого сайта
http://www.connect.uz/proj.php?PHPSE...d0016688a986af
Mondialogo School Contest 2007/2008
XY school celebrates “Mondialogo Day” as part of the launch of the largest worldwide school contest. Xy city - Along with schools in 38 countries around the world, students of the xy school will celebrate a “Mondialogo Day” as part of the ...
Start Date: 30 May, 2007 Deadline: 31 May, 2008
2007 International Essay Contest for Young People-GOi Peace Foundation
We are pleased to inform you that the Goi Peace Foundation is inviting young people from around the world again this year to enter the Essay Contest. This year's theme is "The role of media and information and communication technologies in building ...
Start Date: 21 February, 2007 Deadline: 30 June, 2007
Tech Age Girls 2007
Tech Age Girls is back for a third year to give Uzbekistan’s most promising young women leaders the chance to develop their IT skills and take leading roles in their communities. Apply by March 1 to be part of an exciting project that gives special ...
Start Date: 1 February, 2007 Deadline: 30 September, 2007
ThinkQuest International 2007
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete ...
Start Date: 19 October, 2006 Deadline: 14 June, 2007

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0В соответствии с Соглашением от 22 марта 2007 года о сотрудничестве в области образования
Московский фонд подготовки кадров
Оказывает содействие гражданам Республики Узбекистан получить образование в московских вузах
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Объявляет о приеме документов в московские вузы на очные, вечерние, заочные отделения (по специальностям бакалавр, магистр и оформление переводов из вуза в вуз)
Прием будет осуществляться после собеседования.
Поступившим на вечерние, заочные отделения будут так же предоставлены общежитие, легализация,
они смогут работать и оплачивать обучение и проживание.
По всем вопросам обращаться к уполномоченному представителю.
Адрес: г.Самарканд, ул. Гагарина, д.56, тел:234-42-60
Ориентиры: аэрокассы на Багишамале, в здании бывшей химчистки

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КАК БЕДНОМУ АБИТУРИЕНТУ ПОПАСТЬ В САМЫЕ ЭЛИТНЫЕ ВУЗЫ АМЕРИКИ?

Единый госэкзамен - главное дело миллионов российских школьников. Завтра - очередное испытание. Интересно, что опыт такого тестирования за рубежом уже существует. Но, вот, например, в США такой экзамен не дает стопроцентной гарантии для поступления в престижный вуз. Что же становится решающим при поступлении американских абитуриентов?

Шумная толпа подростков, как у входа на концерт популярной группы, или на футбольный матч. Только время не подходящее - 7.30 утра, суббота. Выпускники старших классов пришли сдавать экзамен SAT, аналог российского ЕГ, без которого не примут ни в один университет.

Девушка: "У меня был репетитор. Я, в общем-то, просто занималась по учебникам департамента высшего образования, это очень помогло".

Юноша: "Мы готовились к тесту целый год по учебникам, которые предоставила со скидкой школа. Мне кажется, я хорошо подготовился и хорошо сдам".

Многие сразу сдают и общий экзамен - английский и математика, и специализированные по предметам, как требуют многие вузы, - это марафон ответов и вопросов на несколько часов.

Юноша: "Нужно огромное количество энергии, нужны силы и терпение, чтобы оставаться сосредоточенным на предмете все это время".

Администрация советует школьникам перед экзаменом плотно позавтракать и даже разрешает приносить с собой что-нибудь перекусить.

Каждый школьник перед тем, как сдавать экзамен, должен заплатить взнос 18 долларов и зарегистрироваться на сайте администрации высшего образования. В больших городах Тест SAT проводят обычно в школах, в маленьких - даже в церкви, или в библиотеке.

Мобильные телефоны, МР-3 плееры, компьютеры и учебники - все это придется сдать. В класс, где проходит тест, посторонние предметы не допускаются. Нужно принести лишь пару карандашей второго номера твердости.

Получив результаты теста, будущие студенты разошлют их вместе с коротким рассказом о себе по разным американским вузам. Никаких вступительных экзаменов нет. Но примут их учиться или нет, зависит не только от отличных оценок. На решение приемной комиссии влияет множество факторов, вплоть до активной жизненной позиции абитуриента.

Интересно, что деньги даже при поступлении в престижный университет не играют решающей роли. Основанный в 1636 году неподалеку от Бостона Гарвард за 370 лет превратился в настоящий город науки. Обучение здесь стоит 45 тысяч долларов в год. С талантливых, но не богатых студентов денег не берут.

В Гарварде много студентов из России. Они даже организовали клуб "Рожденные в СССР". Все эти ребята учатся бесплатно. Университет предоставил им общежитие и бесплатное питание.

Финансовый департамент в самом дорогом американском университете поставлен на службу приемной комиссии. Между престижными вузам в США борьба за хороших студентов.

Олег Биберган, студент 4-го курса Гарвардского университета: "Если комитет по принятию студентов решает, что этот человек им интересен, то финансовый комитет уже решит вопрос так, чтобы студент-таки выбрал Гарвард. Потому что из восьми колледжей, куда меня приняли, Гарвард дал самый лучший пакет финансовой помощи, несмотря на то, что он еще и самый престижный".

При желании Гарвард мог бы заполнить свои аудитории одними круглыми отличниками, но здесь другой подход к абитуриенту - нужны интересные личности.

Света Доценко из Воронежа с отличными результатами сдала и единый государственный и SAT. Но на приемную комиссию Гарварда произвело впечатление, что она 14 лет училась в музыкальной школе и выигрывала политические конкурсы на всероссийском уровне.

Светлана Доценко, студентка первого курса Гарвардского колледжа: "Если вы очень хорошо сдали SAT, то это не в коем случае не гарантирует, что вас сюда примут. Потому как сам по себе пакет документов огромен, и SAT, результаты этого экзамена являются только одной составляющей. В том числе они смотрят на ваши школьные оценки с восьмого класса за каждую четверть. Смотрят на аттестат, на рекомендации, на то, чем занимались помимо школы".

Учатся в Гарварде за большие деньги и саудовские принцы, и внуки президентов, впрочем, и тем и другим приходится сдавать тест SAT на высоком уровне. Самый богатый университет США - это далеко не собес, но здесь понимают, что на деньги богатых научный престиж не купишь. Нужны и бедные гении.

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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

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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/fund...call_2007..pdf
E-mail: ngo@ec.europa.eu







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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-pasosmember...ative-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_..._proposals.asp
E-mail: research.competition@cerge-ei.cz

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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_soci...s/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/information_soci.../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/c...p/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/dial...7_2007_en.html
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/dial...8_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
ч 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
ч 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.)
ч 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:
ч a short description of the planned research
ч methodology
ч contribution to the overall research aims of the Shaken Order project
ч general framework of interpretation
ч 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?=1&a0i=1107&..._id=1161590711
E-mail: cas@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/s...007/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 ?250 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/~gigp...2007/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.

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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