The Post doc functions within the field of land development planning. Within this field, the research programme has four topics. The post doc will do research on at least one of those themes. ·Land market regimes and land development instruments: this topic is about how the rules governing the land market are set, evaluated and […]

A joint French-Romanian grant for PhD studies in the area of high performance computing Topic: parallel QR factorization and its application to least squares problems A grant for PhD student is available in the area of high performance scientific computing. The grant is funded by the Research and Teaching French Ministry in the context of […]

Wear and surface characterisation with confocal white light measurement especially in the production process of automotive parts – PhD fellowship within the MC-RTN “WEMESURFâ€? funded by the European Commission through its 6th Framework Program. The aim of this research network is characterisation of wear mechanisms and surface functionalities with regard to life time prediction and […]

Studentii si tinerii cercetatori au ocazia de a efectua stagii de studiu si cercetare in Germania, prin intermediul Serviciului German de Schimburi Academice (DAAD). Solicitantii trebuie sa se numere printre cei mai buni studenti, respectiv absolventi, iar cercetatorii sa dovedeasca rezultate exceptionale in specializarile lor. Termenul-limita de depunere a dosarelor pentru studii de masterat in […]

The Romanian Association for Political Marketing – ARMP and the Institute for Political Research – University of Bucharest are organizing, in April 2007, The International Conference of Political Marketing, 4th Edition. This project also includes a series of pre-events between October 2006 and March 2007. The Conference that will be organized in Romania in 2007 […]

‘SocAnth’ aims to produce professionally qualified anthropological researchers. In anthropology central modes of research involve data collection during long-term ethnographic fieldwork and participation in seminars. There are also ancillary methods of data collection (archive, media, survey). All the training in ‘SocAnth’ is designed to provide the techniques necessary for these various forms data acquisition and […]

This project combines the strengths of a number of different Institutions and research traditions within European Anthropology in order to contribute to and enable a process of institutionalizing Anthropological research and teaching in central and east Europe. It will do so by providing, alongside doctoral training for two cohorts of PhD Doctoral Fellows (DFs), forty […]

Surface engineering techniques for improved tribological performance of machine parts – PhD fellowship within the MC-RTN “WEMESURFâ€? funded by the European Commission through its 6th Framework Program. The aim of this research network is characterisation of wear mechanisms and surface functionalities with regard to life time prediction and quality criteria – from micro to the […]

The session purposes to discuss the evolution and future prospects of network industries (electricity industry, gas industry, telecoms, etc) in transition countries. Using the knowledge from microeconomics and regulation economics it will concentrate on the following topics: market opening and competition, regulatory framework, ownership structure, effects of accession and the theoretical discussion will be illustrated […]

Over the last years, the ‘region’ has become an issue in southeastern Europe in a political, economic and a socio-cultural sense. The reasons for the growing relevance of regional policy and regional planning and for the increase in regional self-awareness and identity are manifold. SEE nation states have been and still are highly centralized, the […]

This session will focus on changes in perspectives and methodological approaches in writing and teaching history of Eastern Europe since the collapse of Communism. It includes a conference discussing the following topics in separate panels: National narratives; History of Empires; Stalinism; Intellectual History; Patterns of Modernization; History of Media and Communications; History of Science and […]

The CRC workshop, organized in cooperation with the CEU Medieval Studies department and Religious Studies program, intends to deal with the recently very important trends of international historical research towards the visual culture of the past. It will focus on the use and meanings of images and the various symbolic aspects of visual representation. Special […]

This CRC workshop is an application of the Varieties of Capitalism approach to the diversity of emerging capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe . The theme is readily connected to seminars in comparative politics and comparative political economy. It also invites faculty to debate the much discussed and sizable literature on varieties of capitalism in […]

The session co-organised with the Nationalism department proposes to explore the emergence of modern nationalism, with particular focus on the manifold challenges that faced the Jews of Eastern, Central and Western Europe as competing national ideologies demanded their allegiance or rejected them as totally unassimilable. It will examine relevant topics from the late 18th-century integration […]

Ideas of sustainable development (SD) are now incorporated in many spheres of life, being in the center of economic and political debates. EU already is basing its policy on the concepts of SD. At the same time within the existing educational systems in Eastern Europe SD should be studied within some established traditional academic discipline, […]

The ARMP is launching in the 2006 autumn the annual Political Marketing Conferences, an event dedicated to the Romanian public. The Conference are addressed mainly to scholars of political marketing, but are very welcomed also contributions from practitioners in the field. The 2006 Conference format is built up on three days of Conference, each of […]

IREX is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 competition of the Short-Term Travel Grants (STG) Program. The STG Program provides fellowships for up to eight weeks to US postdoctoral scholars and other graduate degree holders for independent or collaborative research projects in Europe and Eurasia. Countries Eligible for Research are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and […]

The Young Faces Conference seeks to bring together young scholars, NGO activists, journalists and government officials from South East Europe and give them an opportunity to engage with prominent international experts in a broad debate concerning contemporary issues of global and regional security. Website: http://dcaf. dev.isn.ch/ news/index. cfm?nav1= 2 Full call for papers: http://dcaf. dev.isn.ch/ […]

To facilitate the participation and stay in Prato of scholars with particular specialization in the subject of the 39th Week of Study, 20 scholarships will be made available and assigned by the Committee to Italian and foreign scholars on the basis of the titles exhibited by the applicants. Residents of the provinces of Prato, Florence, […]

University of Pittsburgh, REES and GOSECA Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference „Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia Defining Ourselves and Being Defined: Globalization, Regionalism and Multiculturalism” February 23-25, 2007 Please submit abstracts by 1 December 2006. Website: http://www.pitt. edu/AFShome/ s/o/sorc/ public/html/ goseca/ [sursa romstudyabroad]