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 […]

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]

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, […]

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/ […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 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 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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

The fellowships are part of the research project, “The Meaning of Death in Society Today,â€? which was launched together with the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and is supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. The objective is to support research that contributes to the present understanding of death and dying, […]

We would like to invite you to attend the JCI Serbia National Conference that will be held in Hotel Mona, in Zlatibor, beautifull mountain in the heart of Serbia. The «Leadership Journey» event will take place from 17th untill 19th of November 2006 and will include trainings, Roundtable Discussion and Business Networking Event. Junior Chamber […]

University and government economists, business experts and researchers are invited to submit abstracts of their papers. Papers are called in the following topic tracks: • Theory and practice of economic integration • Global trade liberalization vs. regional economic integration • Competitiveness and challenges of the enlarged EU • Business and government perspectives of EU enlargements […]

Tourism Cares’ Worldwide Grant Program distributes charitable grants to worthy tourism-related non-profit organizations worldwide for capital improvements or programs as outlined below. The 2006 Worldwide Grant Program goals for grantmaking call for a balanced distribution to U.S. and non-U.S. recipients. Based on merit and availability of funds, grants up to $100,000 will be considered.

Biblioteca Metropolitana din Bucuresti (BMB) si-a redeschis saptamana aceasta sediul central, dupa aproape patru ani de lucrari de consolidare si modernizare, si isi lanseaza pagina de Internet, pe care sunt disponibile pagini din bibliografia scolara si intregul catalog de titluri al bibliotecii Sediul central "Mihail Sadoveanu" – o cladire datand din 1907, situata in apropierea […]

Post: ASISTENT MARKETINGDescrierea firmei: Roton este una din cele mai importante casa de discuri din Romania. Compania a fost infiintata in 1994 si este recunoscuta atat pe plan national cat si international pentru profesionalismul investit in industria muzicala. Astazi, Roton are un catalog impresionant de adevarate valori muzicale diferentiindu- se prin atentia deosebita acordata fiecarui artist […]