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Faculty
Position Contest. Academy Excellence, Second Term, 2007
Universidad Nacional de Colombia is calling candidates who wish
to take part in a Faculty Position Contest - Academic Excellence,
Second Term, 2007, to provide for 228 Faculty positions as Exclusive
Dedication and Chair Teachers comprising all areas of knowledge,
at its Bogota, the Caribbean, Medellin, Manizales, Orinoquia and
Palmira branches. Coordinated by the General Vice-Chancellery, The
Academic Excellence Competition, Second Term, 2007, has the main
purpose of strengthening academic preparation, research, and diversifying
and enhancing community relations through the incorporation of faculty
members who have attained exceptional achievement levels, and who
are willing to comply with the demands of an outstanding teaching
career.
Ciudad Universitaria - Bogotá D.C.-
. Position COntests. Colombia. Publicated: 20-12-2007
Marks
& Spencer to Receive 2008 World Environment Center Gold Medal
for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development
The World Environment Center’s (WEC) Twenty-Fourth Annual
Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable
Development has been awarded to Marks & Spencer for linking
sustainability extensively with its supply chain, operations, and
customers.
World Environment Center (WEC). News. USA.
Publicated: 20-12-2007
Situation
Vacant: Senior/Principal Maritime Heritage Officer - Heritage Branch
The high level objectives to be met by the incumbent of this position
are to enhance the operation of the Maritime Heritage Team through
contributing to the formulation, implementation and management of
programs, projects and policies and provide leadership and advice
which result in the effective administration of the South Australian
and Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Acts.
Departament for Environment and Heritage.
Job Vacancies. USA. Publicated: 14-12-2007
Erasmus
Mundus Programme Scholarships: Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis
of Monuments and Historical Constructions
Europe is a world leader in the generation of knowledge, methodology
and technology applicable to the conservation and restoration of
the architectural heritage. The large investment made during the
last years lead to significant advances in experimental and numerical
techniques applied to the conservation of architectural heritage
structures. The objective of the MSc is to offer an advanced education
programme on the engineering of conservation of structures, with
a focus on architectural heritage. The Master combines the diversity
of expertise at leading European universities in the field, offering
education oriented to a multidisciplinary understanding of structural
conservation through the involvement of experts from complementary
fields (engineers, architects, materials scientists and others).
Students face top level structural analysis knowledge in a research
oriented environment, with close cooperation with the industry and
a focus on problem solving.
European Union. Education. Programmes.
Erasmus Mundus. Publicated: 12-12-2007
Call
for nominations for the first annual US/ICOMOS Ann Webter Smith
Award
The work and achievements of Ann Webster Smith as a champion in
building a global culture of protection for the cultural heritage
of the entire world were prolific and varied. For three decades
Ms Smith was at the very core of the dreamers and doers who nurtured
ICOMOS to its maturity, personifying a spirit of cooperation and
teamwork. In recognition of her legacy, US/ICOMOS is pleased to
announce this call for nominations for the first annual US/ICOMOS
Ann Webster Smith Award, to honor an American individual, group
of persons or institution, in the public or private sector, for
extraordinary and sustained achievement in perpetuating Ann Webster
Smith’s quest to make the United States a respected and trustworthy
pillar to support the conservation of the cultural heritage in all
parts of the world.
US/ICOMOS Ann Webster Smith Award. USA.
Publicated: 11-12-2007
New
Research hopes to shed light on Easter Island - Aviva/Earthwatch
Award for Climate Change Research
The archaeologist, who has worked with over 400 Earthwatch volunteers,
suspects that prolonged climate change was a primary factor to blame
for the abrupt cultural reorganization, change in religion, and
overall demise of the island’s great civilisation nearly 300
years ago. “It is my hypothesis that deforestation, intensive
agriculture and aggressive resource extraction occurred within a
climatically uncertain environment that was becoming increasingly
arid,” says Dr. Stevenson.
Earthwatch Institute. Newsroom. News form
the field. United Kingdom. Publicated: 6-12-2007
Vacancy
announcement - Ramsar Convention Secretariat- Senior Regional Advisor
for Asia/Oceania. Deadline:7 January 2008
Following our recent announcement [21/11/07] concerning the post
of Senior Regional Advisor for the Asia/Oceania region, the Ramsar
Convention is re-launching this recruitment. Applications are invited
from all interested and suitably qualified persons. The deadline
for applications is 7 January 2008.
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. What's New.
Switzerland. Publicated: 4-12-2007
LIFE
project film wins prize at film festival
A 26-minute film showing the work of a LIFE project, “conservation
of the aquatic warbler in Brittany” (LIFE04 NAT/FR/000086),
was awarded a prize at the 2007 International Ornithological Film
Festival. The project followed the post-breeding migration patterns
of this small endangered bird, before introducing management measures
to protect the most important stop-over sites. It aimed to increase
the area of favourable habitat for migrating aquatic warblers in
the Atlantic coastal marshes of France.
LIFE Project. News. Publicated: 4-12-2007
Rufford
Small Grant For Nature Conservation
The Rufford Small Grants Foundation offers grants up to £
5,000 to individuals for grassroots nature conservation projects.
It has also recently launched a new Innovation Grant aimed at giving
up to £ 50,000 for a creative and innovative project. For
further information, visit the Foundation’s Web site.
Rufford Small Grants Foundation. About
the Grants. Publicated: 4-12-2007
CAUCASUS
REGION: ArmeniaNow.com claims top prizes in Caucasus Contest
Reporters for ArmeniaNow.com shared the top two prizes and one honorable
mention in the first contest for reporting on biodiversity in the
Caucasus region. Marianna Grigoryan and Arpi Harutyunyan tied for
first prize in the contest, which included entries from Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and the North Caucasus region of Russia. Both
write for the ArmeniaNow.com, a news weekly published on the Internet.
Third Prize went to Tea Topuria of the Georgian newspaper Rezonansi.
The winners received award certificates and cash prizes at the Tbilisi
Marriott Hotel.
Biodiversity reporting award. Press Release.
Publicated: 4-12-2007
CAUCASUS
REGION: ArmeniaNow.com claims top prizes in Caucasus Contest
Reporters for ArmeniaNow.com shared the top two prizes and one honorable
mention in the first contest for reporting on biodiversity in the
Caucasus region. Marianna Grigoryan and Arpi Harutyunyan tied for
first prize in the contest, which included entries from Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and the North Caucasus region of Russia. Both
write for the ArmeniaNow.com, a news weekly published on the Internet.
Third Prize went to Tea Topuria of the Georgian newspaper Rezonansi.
The winners received award certificates and cash prizes at the Tbilisi
Marriott Hotel.
Biodiversity reporting award. Press Release.
Publicated: 4-12-2007
Mayor's
African and Asian heritage project wins major European award
The London Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage
has been named winner of the Cooperation category for a EUROCITIES
award at a ceremony in Gdansk. Members of the Mayor’s European
office collected the award in recognition of their work with London’s
museums and historical archives and Black and Asian community groups.
The Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage is a
groundbreaking mayoral initiative launched in 2003, to investigate
how London’s museums and archives could more inclusively reflect
and represent London’s diverse hidden histories and cultural
heritage.
Greater London Authority. Media Centre.
United Kingdom. Publicated: 27-11-2007
Masterplan
for the Rehabilitation of the Walled City of Nicosia amongst the
Nine Laureates of the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture
On 4 September 2007, at a ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
His Highness the Aga Khan announced the nine recipients of the 2007
Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Founded in 1977 to identify and
encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs
and aspirations of Muslim societies, in the fields of contemporary
design, social housing, community improvement and development, historic
preservation, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape
design and improvement of the environment, the Award has a triennial
prize fund of US$ 500,000, making it the world’s largest architectural
award.
Aga Khan Development Network. Press Release.
Switzerland. Publicated: 26-11-2007
WWF
competition nets sustainable fishing solutions
A team of inventors from the US state of Rhode Island has won the
fourth annual WWF International Smart Gear Competition for an invention
that could save fish and other marine life from dying or being discarded
each year. This year’s winning solution, the "Eliminator”,
is an innovative device that captures haddock while reducing the
accidental netting, or bycatch, of other marine species. The invention
takes advantage of the haddock’s natural tendency to swim
upwards, not downwards, which is the norm for other fish.
WWF. News & Facts. News. Switzerland.
Publicated: 26-11-2007
Swiss
Network for International Studies Launches Call for Proposals
The Swiss Network for International Studies was created in late
2007 by the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies (IHEID) in collaboration with the Centre
for Comparative and International Studies of ETH Zurich and the
University of Zurich, the World Trade Institute in Bern, the Swiss
Tropical Institute in Basel, and the University of St.Gallen. The
Réseau assumes the mission, the rights and the responsibilities
of the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN).
RUIG-GIAN. News. Switzerland. Publicated:
20-12-2007
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