An evening public lecture ‘The nature of the city’ will be delivered by Prof Jesse Ausubel (Rockefeller University) on Monday 18 April. The lecture will consider the role of technology in decoupling human needs from the environment – vibrant cities, undergrounding infrastructure and using maglev/hyperloop type transportation systems.
Join our online webinar on urban safety, completely free of charge! Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, co-founder of SafetiPin is presenting how smartphone applications can help to make your city safer. Participants will have the opportunity to receive first-hand information about the SafetiPin project and discuss the challenges and solutions for urban crime and violence.
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
Franklin Rooseveltlaan 42
Brussels
The European Commission will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation funding scheme, following a new Work Programme for 2016-17 adopted in October 2015. Based on intensive consultations with the relevant EC officials and discussions about funding priorities the European Training Academy is very pleased to invite you to upcoming events.
HSE University, Ural Federal University, ITMO University
Saint Petersburg
Academics and professionals alike are increasingly focusing their attention on the role of universities in stimulating urban and regional development. Contemporary universities are driving the development of economic and innovation ecosystems and play a key role in the transition to a new technological order.
Europe is living through its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War. At the governmental level, responses to this crisis have created strains on the very ideas underpinning post-War solidarity. At the social level, responses have varied from welcoming to hostile.
Inclusion is a major theme within the PASCAL world and a series within the Learning City Networks (LCN) program. Over the past year, activities as part of this Inclusion series have been held in the cities of Townsville, Glasgow, Bristol, Melbourne and now Brisbane. The topics have ranged across local government development, smart campuses to supporting young people and improving mental health through community learning.
The University of Glasgow is very pleased that we will be launching Professor Josef Konvitz's new book, Cities and Crisis, published by Manchester University Press, on 25 February 2016 in Glasgow.
"We seek to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls" - this goal has been declared in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as one of the main goals (SDGS) that will define our global community over the next fifteen years.
The International Scientific Conference in Cultural Studies will be held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 16-19 March, 2016, hosted by Ural Federal University - named after the First President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin - and Yekaterinburg History Museum.
The next meeting of the Development Studies Association (DSA) Scotland is being planned for Friday 17th June 2016, and it is to be held in the University of Edinburgh for the first time in several years.
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