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Chers collègues,

L'ISCC (Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS) et l'INIST
(Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS)
réalisent une enquête pour évaluer l'implication personnelle des
chercheurs et des autres acteurs de la recherche scientifique en
terme de communication et de relation avec la société.

Vous êtes acteur de la recherche et, à ce titre, nous souhaiterions
vous soumettre un questionnaire en ligne qui ne vous prendra pas plus
de deux minutes.

Nous vous informerons des résultats de cette enquête en vous envoyant
un lien vers la synthèse qui sera publiée sur les sites des deux
instituts après traitement de vos réponses.

Vous pouvez accéder au questionnaire (disponible jusqu'au 16 mai 2008)
en cliquant sur le lien suivant ou en le copiant dans votre navigateur :

Vous pouvez accéder au questionnaire (disponible jusqu'au 16 mai 2008)
en cliquant sur le lien suivant ou en le copiant dans votre navigateur :
http://vip.sphinxonline.net/inist/chercheurcom2008/questionnaire...

N'hésitez pas à diffuser largement cette enquête autour de vous.

Vous remerciant par avance de votre participation,

Vous remerciant par avance de votre participation,
Bien cordialement

Marc Guichard

Marc Guichard
Directeur adjoint de l'INIST-CNRS
Chargé de mission ISCC

If you're interesting in th future of education you will love Dave Eggers and his tutoring center!

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSF1gPBKrA&feature=user

"Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own volunteer-driven, wildly creative writing labs. But you don't need to go that far, he reminds us -- it's as simple as asking a teacher "How can I help?" He asks that we share our own volunteering stories at his new website, Once Upon a School."
http://onceuponaschool.org/

in this short movie, Rashid Sumaila analyses the alarming global issue of fisheries subsidies and its dreadful consequences for high and deep sea forms of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bfmyw-3yys

Rashid is an Associate Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC.

more about him on his web page:

"Our planet's fisheries have reached their ecological limits. As benefits from fisheries decrease, pressure grows to develop other sources of revenue, not necessarily compatible with ecosystem health.

Policy and planning for ecosystem-based management must then be informed by knowledge of the interplay of human, biotic and environmental factors that affect ecosystem structure and function. Key requirements are sufficient time-depth to capture biodiversity, abundance and trophic structure prior to depletion, identification of the full range of benefits that healthy ecosystems provide to present and future generations and integration of the fine-scale knowledge of the maritime community with large-scale national and international fisheries management."

http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/mission.php

"Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future. Turok asks the TED community to help him expand the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences by opening 15 new centers across Africa in five years. By adding resources for entrepreneurship to this proven model, he says, we can create a network for progress across the continent -- and perhaps discover an African Einstein."

If you had some time have a look http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/232
if you are short of time start form 13th minute!

Thanks Francois for the info!

Gaell

The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 14 - 16, 2008. Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. Please forward, post, and distribute this e-mail to your colleagues and listservs.

All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute. For more information call (213) 817 - 5308 or visit The Grant Institute at www.thegrantinstitute.com.

Please find the program description below:

The Grant Institute

Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop

will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia

April 14 - 16, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Grant Institute's Grants 101 course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.

FACTS Reports is a unique forum that will publish manuscripts and opinion pieces related to field-based activities within various topic areas: economics, health, education, agriculture, urban planning and environmental issues. FACTS will focus on activities in developing countries and impoverished areas of developed countries. During its first stage, FACTS will develop journals devoted to economic development and health.

Objectives
The goal of this journal is to collect and disseminate knowledge and best practices on field activities. Many professionals work in developing countries to address issues related to economics, health, agriculture, education, environment and development in general. Frequently, these activities do not have an evaluation component or when an evaluation does occur, no forum exists to communicate results to a broader audience. Consequently, knowledge is capitalized poorly resulting in the perpetuation of bad practices and lack of recognition and visibility for good practices. The aim of FACTS Reports is to fill this gap.
FACTS Reports will include peer review with a requirement that peers work in the field themselves. This process will ensure critical input from world experts, allow for cooperation and competition among authors, and promote a high level of science.

Readership
FACTS reports will provide a platform of communication and exchange among field-based professionals. It will improve communication, evaluation of methods, capitalisation of knowledge, and recognition of best practices. In a second stage, FACTS will promote other activities such as training courses, symposia, and educational awards.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics for FACTS Reports related to economy, development and health include, but are not limited to:
• Development finance
• Education, employment policies
• Social policies
• Trade capacity building, actions related to globalization
• Rural development
• Evaluation methods
• Health care delivery
• Pharmaceutical pricing and drug distribution
• Public health delivery
• Access to health care
• Equity in health care distribution
• Novel health care and public health delivery technologies and methodologies
• Effective practice
• Health promotion
• Health education
• Health systems and health care supply
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in health projects

Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors and other
relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Guidelines for authors www.institut.veolia.org/en/facts-initiative.aspx

Editors and Notes
Contributions should be sent in MS Word format attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:
Nadia CAÏD
Development Director
Institut Veolia Environment
15, rue des Sablons
75116 Paris
Tel: +33 1 53 43 22 70
E-mail: nadia.caid@institut.veolia.org
With a copy to: FACTS Editorial Office
E-mail: facts.initiative@institut.veolia.org

The mission of Translations for Progress is to facilitate communication
within the global grass roots community and to create opportunities for
language students and professionals to get involved in social issues.

Volunteer translators and NGOs from all over the world can become Translation
for Progress members. The Translation for Progress is currently available in
six official languages (Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Russian and
Spanish), and more language version will be added in the future.

They have currently over 600 registered volunteer-translator members
and over 300 NGO members. It is a gathering of really interesting
and talented people and organizations. Just browse their databases
to check them out!

For more information about TfP, see:
http://www.ways.org/en/reading_room/translations_progress

If you want to participate as a translator:
http://www.translationsforprogress.org/howtohelp.php

If you want TfP to translate material for you:
http://www.translationsforprogress.org/howtousetp.php.

Try it yourself!

When you enter ways as a keyword, ways.org is ranked number one
and PYRN, hosted by WAYS, is 9th!

Given the common usage of the word "ways" in english, that's quite an achievement.
We are on a good track.

The African Virtual University has relaunched recently its website www.avu.org
The African Virtual University (AVU) is a Pan African Intergovernmental Organization whose aim is to significantly increase access to quality higher education and training through the innovative use of information communication technologies.

As an African organization, the AVU has a mandate to increase access for tertiary education and trainning using Open Distance and eLearning (ODeL) methodologies.

The AVU headquarters is situated in Nairobi, Kenya and a regional office is based in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa.

www.avu.org

In the summer of 2008 XLAB organizes the International Science Camps in
the sixth year of uninterrupted succession. In 2008 XLAB organizes two International Science Camps.

first Camp from June 16th to July 8th,

second Camp from July 28th to August 19th

They are geared to interested high school students, undergraduate college and university students, aged about 17 to 20 years. Courses are offered in biology, chemistry, physics and computer science and supervised by scientists of the University of Göttingen and affiliated research organizations.
The students work in small groups of two or three. All experiments are hands-on experiments. Demonstrations are rarely used and limited only to highly sophisticated experiments, to the use of NMR, X-Ray or other large research instruments. During the XLAB International Science Camps English is the language used among students, teachers and scientists.

At the weekends and in the evenings a cultural and social program is arranged. Social contacts among students of different cultural background are as important as experimental work and scientific learning. All social activities are accompanied by experienced teachers.
The science camp last for 3 ½ weeks, including an excursion to Berlin
during the last three days. The costs for the camp 2008 are 1.750 € which is all-inclusive except for the travel expenses to Göttingen and from Berlin. Financial support
is possible. Application for a scholarship should be submitted before March 15th.

More information about the camps can be found on the XLAB website:
http://www.xlab-goettingen.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=1...