2nd
edition of the Trophies to responsible Tourism… returns
The objective of the Competition is to support and highlight responsible
tourism, that is, a type of tourism that participates in the development
of towns and host territories from north to south, contributing
to the challenges of the 21st century: fight against climate change,
protection of biodiversity and fragile environments and fight against
the attacks to human rights. Responsible tourism includes ecotourism,
shared tourism, equitable tourism, sustainable tourism. Thus, the
objective of the awards consists of federating the agents of the
profession around values of responsible tourism (see Article 5),
presenting and promoting this type of tourism to professionals of
the sector, mass media and the general public.
Voyages-sncf.com. Competition. Publicated:
28-03-2008
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BA and Masters degrees via the university Agency of the Francophonie
(AUF)
The university Agency of the Francophonie (AUF) proposes for the
fifth consecutive year a number of open and distance degrees and
offers grants for distance learning to the best candidates selected
by the universities, according to the criteria set forth by its
scientific board. Of special priority are the female candidatures,
with the same scientific quality. Thanks to the grants, a significant
part of the fees and registratios is thus assumed.
Thot Cursus. News of distance learning.
Publicated: 27-03-2008
Annual
Prize of the Bruno Zevi Foundation for an historical-critical essay
on architecture
The prize consists of publication in the Quaderni of the Bruno Zevi
Foundation and a stay of 30 days at the Bruno Zevi Foundation in
Rome for study purposes. With a view to developing and disseminating
the teaching of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical
inquiry, the Bruno Zevi Foundation is holding an international competition
to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original
analysis of an architectural work or theme or an architect of the
past or present. Submitting languages are Italian, English and French.
Deadline: 30 April 2008.
Bruno Zevi Foundation. Prize. Publicated:
17-03-2008
Internship
Opportunities
The Asian Academy secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok launched the Asian
Academy Internship Programme in January 2005 for advanced students
in the member institutions. During a 6-month period, interns will
learn about heritage management issues through exposure to UNESCO,
ICCROM, and member activities...
UNESCO Bangkok. For Students. Internships.
Publicated: 11-03-2008
Opportunities
for Research Studies
Generous research scholarships are available, consisting of full
tuition fees and monthly stipends in a degree programme leading
to Master of Arts (Architecture), Master of Arts (Industrial Design)
or PhD at the National University of Singapore. Areas of research
work will be: urban studies, history and theory of architecture,
design technology, and industrial design. Interested students and
scholars are welcomed to send inquiries to akilimem@nus.edu.sg.
UNESCO Bangkok. For Students. Schoolaships.
Publicated: 11-03-2008
2008
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation
– Call for Entries
Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific
Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The awards programme,
in its ninth year, recognizes the achievement of individuals and
organizations within the private sector, and public-private initiatives,
in successfully restoring structures of heritage value in the Asia-Pacific
region. The deadline for receipt of materials is 31 March 2008.
In addition to the established awards, entries are also accepted
for the Jury Commendation for Innovation to recognize newly-built
structures which demonstrate outstanding standards for contemporary
architectural design that are well-integrated into historic contexts.
Projects involving buildings more than fifty years old and which
were completed within the last ten years are eligible for consideration.
Houses, commercial, cultural, religious, industrial or institutional
buildings, gardens and bridges, for example, are all eligible for
consideration. Public-private partnership projects such as historic
towns, urban quarters and rural settlements where the essential
elements are more than 50 years old are all eligible...
UNESCO Bangkok. 2008 Heritage Awards. Publicated:
11-03-2008
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Sir
Richard Branson and Al Gore Announce The Virgin Earth Challenge
A $25 million Global Science and Technology Prize
To encourage a viable technology which will result in the net removal
of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases each year for at
least ten years without countervailing harmful effects. Today, Sir
Richard Branson and Al Gore announced the setting up of a new Global
science and technology prize – The Virgin Earth Challenge
– in the belief that history has shown that prizes of this
nature encourage technological advancements for the good of mankind.
The Virgin Earth Challenge will award $25 million to the individual
or group who are able to demonstrate a commercially viable design
which will result in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric
greenhouse gases each year for at least ten years without countervailing
harmful effects. This removal must have long term effects and contribute
materially to the stability of the Earth’s climate. (...)
Virgin Earth Challenge 2007. Award. Publicated:
9-3-2008
Last
call for applications for UNESCO-Vocations Patrimoine Fellowships
for World Heritage site managers
Training World Heritage site managers is one of the most valuable
investments in heritage conservation, particularly as these sites
confront the challenges of increasing flows of tourism and diminishing
flows of international assistance for conservation and management.
This is why UNESCO's World Heritage Centre has joined forces - for
the third year running - in an innovative public-private partnership
to offer Fellowships through the UNESCO-Association Vocations Patrimoine
World Heritage Site Managers Programme. The fellowships are destined
for World Heritage site managers as well as people intending to
pursue a career in World Heritage site management. This programme
is the result of a partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage
Centre and the French non-governmental organization, Association
Vocations Patrimoine and its partners, the multinational groups
AXA and MAZARS, actively supported by the French Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It supports the World Heritage Committee's Capacity
Building objectives by facilitating access to advanced level interdisciplinary
training in World Heritage studies.
World Heritage Centre (WHC) News. Publicated:
7-3-2008
Cultural
Policy Research Award 2008: Call for Applications now open!
The European Cultural Foundation, the Riksbankens Jublileumsfond
and the European Network of Cultural Administration and Training
Centres (ENCATC) call for applications for the 5th Cultural Policy
Research Award 2008. The winner of the CPR Award 2008, worth Euro
10,000, will be publicly announced on the 16th of October at the
International ENCATC Annual Conference taking place in Lyon, France.
Designed to stimulate academic and applied cultural policy research
and to explore, through comparative cross-national research, issues
at stake in contemporary Europe, and possibly anticipate new cultural
policy orientations, the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) has
the ambition to contribute to the process of creating an "infrastructure",
a network of scholars who are competent in doing comparative research
projects in cultural policy.
ENCATC. Awards. Publicated: 10-3-2008
Job
offer for an archeo-zoologist in the Pôle d'Archéologie
Interdépartemental Rhénan in Sélestat (Alsace,
France)
Main function: to take care of the archeo-zoological study of
the contexts and infrastructure of an archaeological operation.
Information: to take care of the update of evolution skills
of the archeo-zoological analysis related to all the archaeological
periods. Responsibility: person in charge of the operations
personnel in charge. Technical: to take care of the completion
and management of archeo-zoological data. To take care of the establishment
of reference collections. To participate in the launching of archaeological
operations of the interdepartmental establishment of archaeology.
To participate in the activities of the PAIR.
Pôle d’Archéologie Interdépartemental
Rhénan (PAIR). Publicated: 6-3-2008
VACANCY-Head
Conservator-Maryland Department of Planning, Division of Historical
& Cultural Programs
The Maryland Historical Trust is seeking an experienced Head Conservator
of archaeological materials at the Jefferson Patterson Park and
Museum, a State Museum of Archaeology located in Calvert County,
Maryland. The Head Conservator will lead the Conservation Program
at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab),
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (JPPM), under the supervision
of the MAC Lab Director. Primary duties include the supervision
of conservators, technicians, and volunteers; examination, documentation,
and treatment of objects and collections; analytical testing and
material identification; preparing cost estimates; packaging or
mounting artifacts for transport, storage or display; and submitting
full reports of all activities, or delegate such duties to other
staff...
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. Vacancy.
Publicated: 6-3-2008
Call
for nominations for the Equator Prize 2008
This marks the fourth round of the internationally renowned Equator
Prize. Awarded biennially, the Equator Prize recognizes community-based
initiatives that demonstrate extraordinary achievement in reducing
poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
in the equatorial belt. Prize winners receive worldwide recognition
for their work as well as an opportunity to help shape national
and global policy and practice in the field. The Equator Prize will
be presented in October 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, at the IUCN World
Conservation Congress. All winners will have the opportunity to
showcase their work in the “Poble” Dialogue Space at
the Congress. The Equator Prize 2008 nomination process will be
open through May 31, 2008. Details on the criteria for the Prize,
information on the award process, and the online nomination system
can be accessed through the Equator Initiative website.
UNDP. Equator Initiative. Publicated: 6-3-2008
The
Gazzola Prize
The Gazzola Prize was established in 1979 in memory of Piero Gazzola,
one of the greatest defenders of the conservation and restoration
of historic monuments and sites, and a founder of ICOMOS. The prize
is awarded every three years at the General Assembly of ICOMOS to
an individual or a group of people who have worked together and
contributed with distinction to the aims and objectives of ICOMOS.
The beneficiary must be a member of ICOMOS and is chosen by the
Selection Committee itself elected by the Executive Committee of
ICOMOS. The Prize is a commemorative medal and diploma, and has
been previously awarded to: Mr. Jean Trouvelot (1981); Prof. Stanislas
Lorentz (1984); Prof. Masaru Sekino (1987); Mrs Gertrude Tripp (1990);
Sir Bernard Fielden (1993); Dr Ernest Allen Connally (1996), Dr.
Roland Silva (1999), Cevat Erder (2003) and Ann Webster Smith (2005)
ICOMOS. Prizes. Publicated: 3-3-2008
Grants
for young researchers - Fondation Le Corbusier
For the coming academic year 2008-2009, the Le Corbusier foundation
will attribute four grants to young researchers wishing to devote
their studies to Le Corbusier’s work. The research proposals
should concern primarily the aspects of his work that have not been
the subject of sufficient in-depth research, or, in the case of
areas already studied, propose an original approach (multi-disciplinary,
comparative, transverse, etc.). All of the aspects of Le Corbusier’s
work are acceptable as research subjects: building works, unrealized
architectural or urban projects, furniture, the plastic arts –
painting, drawing, tapestry, exhibitions, etc. – writings
(published or not); biographical research contributing to an understanding
of the man and his work may also be proposed...
Fondation Le Corbusier. Grants. Publicated:
3-3-2008
Earthwatch
and BBC Wildlife launch nature writing competition-Call for Submissions
- Deadline 30 April, 2008
Oxford. 20 February 2008. Do you have a creative talent waiting
to be unleashed? Earthwatch, the environmental charity, has joined
forces with BBC Wildlife magazine to launch the 2008 BBC Wildlife/Earthwatch
Nature Writer of the Year Award. If you think you’ve got what
it takes, why not enter this exciting competition? The prize is
a place on one of three Earthwatch expeditions, with flights included,
plus the publication of your article in BBC Wildlife magazine, and
on loveearth.com, BBC Worldwide’s natural history website,
which is a celebration of the world and the animals within it...
Earthwatch Institute. News and Events.
Newsroom. Publicated: 3-3-2008
Postdoc
- Researcher “Water Footprint” – University of
Twente, The Netherlands
The Water Engineering and Management Department carries out multi-disciplinary
research and provides education in the areas of water systems and
management. The aim is to increase our understanding of the natural
processes in water systems and the socio-economic processes that
affect these systems, and to develop tools that can effectively
be used to support the management of rivers, river basins, seas
and coastal zones. One of the priority areas of the research group
Water Management is research on water footprints of people, a newly
established field of knowledge that receives growing attention from
the global academic community, but also from governments, businesses
and NGO’s. The University of Twente collaborates with WWF
(formerly known as World Wildlife Fund) in further developing concepts
and analytical tools for assessing water footprints of products,
communities, nations and businesses.
UNESCO. Water portal. Bulletin nº
200. Vacances de poste. Publicated: 3-3-2008
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