MIB School of Management - MBA in International Business (full time)

The Scholarships will go toward tuition fees to attend the XXI edition
of the MBA in International Business programme (September 2010 -
September 2011).

The Scholarships will cover up to 100% of the tuition fees (equivalent
to 24.000,00 EUR 20% V.A.T. included). The amount of the scholarships
will be discounted from the overall tuition fees. In case of course
abandonment or exclusion for any reason, no amount of the scholarship
will be paid or reimbursed.

Candidates must meet the following requirements:

* Academic degree (or equivalent qualification) in any discipline.
* Good working knowledge of English (TOEFL certificate is recommended).
* Minimum 3 years of work experience.
* Less than 35 years of age as of September 2010.

MIB School of Management will award scholarships to the best
candidates on the basis of educational qualifications, professional
skills and motivation shown during the entrance interview.

To be considered for a scholarship, the application form for the
programme must be completed on-line at www.mib.edu

In order to finalize the application, the following documents must be received:

* Degree certificate
* Two letters of recommendation
* A certificate demonstrating adequate knowledge of English such
as TOEFL (verification of skills may be made directly by the School)
* A deductive reasoning test score such as GMAT (alternatively,
verification will be made directly by the School).

The documentation must be sent to the School by June 30, 2010 to the
following address: Attn. Ms. Barbara Sepic, MIB School of Management

Largo Caduti di Nasiriya 1, 34142 Trieste - Italy

2010-11 Beijing Government Scholarships

Beijing Municipal Government has established the "Beijing Government Scholarship" for Beijing University of Chemical Technology to encourage and provide funding assistance for the outstanding foreign students to pursue degree study or further education in BUCT and use it to reward those highly meritorious students who are currently studying at the University. Details of the Beijing Government Scholarship 2010 – 2011 are as the following:

I. Types of awards, value of awards and use of awards

Types of Awards Value of Awards The use of awards

Undergraduates 1 year tuition fee Remission of tuition fees of 2010-2011

Master students 1 year tuition fee Remission of tuition fees of 2010-2011

Doctoral students 1 year tuition fee Remission of tuition fees of 2010-2011

Advanced students Half year tuition fee Remission of half year tuition fees of 2010-2011

Application Deadline: May 30, 2010

Please note: Those students who have already been granted "Chinese Government Scholarship" will NOT be considered for this scholarship.

II. Eligibility

1. Applicants shall be the citizens of the foreign countries with which China has established diplomatic relations; they shall be in good physical health and agree to obey the relevant laws of the PRC and the rules of the BUCT, with proven academic excellence.

2. Students applying for undergraduate degree programs at the BUCT shall hold high school certificates or above ; applicants for post-graduate degree courses shall hold university degrees or above; those who read for the PhD degrees shall hold master's degrees or above ;

3. Those who apply for advanced education of their specialties shall have the education background equivalent at least to bachelor degree or shall be the university students at the second year or above ;

4. Those who apply to undertake research at the BUCT as a visiting scholar shall hold master or above degrees, or possess the professional title of associate professor or above.

III. Application

1 Complete the Application Form for Beijing Government Scholarship. Forms are available at the International Exchange and Cooperation Department of the BUCT or you can download the form from the BUCT website and print it out.

2. Certificate of highest degree (must be notarized by notary in applicant's home country)

3. Transcript (must be notarized by notary in applicant's home country)

4. Two reference letters from teachers (applicant for master's and PhD degrees must provide reference letters from professors)

5. Resume and study plan (All the above material must be provided in Chinese or English)

6. HSK Certificate, Chinese proficiency test band 4 above (for applicants wish to study undergraduate or master courses taught in Chinese)

7. Photocopies of valid passport

Note: All application material provided by applicants will not be returned to them whether they are successful or not.

IV. Application time

The closing date for application shall be May 30, 2010, and the International Exchange and Cooperation Department of the BUCT shall have received all application material by the above time.

V. Qualification and notification:

The BUCT will assess the application submitted by applicants and will announce the list of scholarship award winners before June 30, 2010.

VI. How to contact the International Exchange and Cooperation Department of the BUCT

Address: the International Exchange and Cooperation Department of the BeijingUniversity of Chemical Technology, 15 Beisanhuan Dong Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Email: zhaojy-at-mail-dot-buct-dot-edu-dot-cn

Contact Person:JuliaZHAO

Website: Http://www.buct.edu.cn

Telephone: 0086-10-64434754, 64451480

Fax: 0086-10-64423610

2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness

2nd Roma Pavilion
Call the Witness

open call for submission/collaboration
birobeograd.info/callthewitness

The curatorial team of The 2nd Roma Pavilion – Call the Witness
announces its open call for artists, researchers and media archive.

This project, which will be presented in Venice in 2011, is
conceptualised and curated by the interdisciplinary collaborative
curatorial team: Suzana Milevska, Vladan Jeremic, Rena Raedle and
Enisa Eminovska.

The 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is an interdisciplinary
collaboration that aims at fostering, producing and presenting
contemporary and new media art by Roma artists from different regions
and cultures. At the core of the project lies the concept of the
contemporary artist as an instantaneous witness of his/her time who is
not a passive viewer but rather acts as an active participant in
solidarity with the events and people that provoked his/her art work.
Such a phenomenon, wherein art becomes a potential agent of social
makeover, acquires a completely new prospect in this period of
digitalisation and globalisation, and may greatly affect Roma
communities.

We issue a "Call for Witnesses" to bring to light testimonies and
statements from artists and researchers that will address the
different situations of Roma communities throughout the world. The
question: who has control over the means of representation and has the
power to promote the dominant cultural and moral values concerning
Roma communities provoked us to put emphasis on new media art as an
available means for self-presentation and self-reflection.

We invite artists and researchers to submit proposals that address
these issues in a way that will allow further collaborative
development, both of content and media-wise. The selected contributors
will be invited to present and discuss their proposals at a working
meeting to take place in Belgrade (April 2010) where we will discuss
the possibilities of eventual further productions of individual works
or collaborative projects. The conditions for production will be
agreed for the most promising concepts to be realised in 2010 and
presented at the 2nd Roma Pavilion in Venice (2011).

The project 2nd Roma Pavilion - Call the Witness is organised by the
Roma Media Base – A Skopje based organisation for archiving, producing
and presenting contemporary and new media art by Roma artists and
communities, and the Biro for Culture and Communication from Belgrade.
The project is supported by the Open Society Institute and other
organisations and sponsors.

The First Roma Pavilion took place in 2007 as a collateral exhibition
at the 52nd Venice Biennale and was initiated by the Open Society
Institute.

HOW TO APPLY?

1. Call for artists/researchers
Deadline: 15 March 2010

The applications should consist of:
- comprehensive narrative CV (up to 500 words), - motivational letter
and draft (up to 500 words) that will draw on your interests and the
main issues addressed in this project
- your e-mail/phone contacts

Optional:
- visual materials (screenshots, links to videos, pdfs, links to
websites, etc) from existing works or works in progress and proposals
for new research, photographs, video, animation, performance, comic
strips, sound art and other new media projects.

Who can apply: all Roma artists and other emerging Roma professionals
(art researchers, theorists, curators, activists, etc.), working
individually or in groups in the fields of contemporary art and
culture from any country and region.

2. Call the Witness Media Archive
Deadline: 1 May 2010

We invite Roma cultural centers, archives, festivals and other
organisations and producers to submit existing new media productions
(photo archives, video research projects, etc.) to the Call the
Witness Media Archive that will be presented at the 2nd Roma Pavilion
in Venice.

At this stage please submit only a description of the media
production(s) or the content of your archive, the address of your
organisation and samples (texts, images jpgs, links to video excerpts,
existing online archives, etc.)

Please submit your material (max. 5MB) to the address below.

Rok prijave: 15/03/10 - artists, 01/05/10 - archives

Kontakt:
Roma Media Base
Ruzveltova 46 A I-5
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
tel: +38975299882
fax: +38975299882
callthewitness@gmail.com
birobeograd.info

Friends of the Earth International 5th Annual Photo Competitionjel

Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest grassroots
environmental network, uniting 77 diverse national member groups and
some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With more than 2
million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on
today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the
current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote
solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and
socially just societies.

The best shots will be featured in materials produced by these
organizations and social movements, including a 2011 calendar and an
international photo exhibition.

Categories:

* Acting in solidarity
* Movements for change

Prizes:

1. 400 euros for each first place photo
2. 200 euros for each second place photo
3. 100 euros for each third place photo

The judges will choose a total of 12 winning photographs (6 from each
category), as well as three "popular choice" photo per category that
will be selected by our member groups and allies. The winning photos
will be announced in mid-April 2010.

You may submit up to 3 photos per category (for a total of 6 photos).

You can e-mail your photos to photos@foei.org or send them on cd. The
size should be at least 1819 x 2598 pixels [154 x 220mm horizontal] at
300 dpi resolution, supplied in jpeg format, with a maximum file size
of 10 MB.

* Copyright: By entering the contest, you give permission to
publish the submitted photo(s) in our calendar, photo exhibit and
other materials. Published photos will be credited with your name,
e-mail address and/or website.
* Eligibility: Open to everyone, and we particularly encourage
women, young people, and people living in the developing world to
enter.
* Entry fee: Free
* Entry deadline: 1 April 2010

PhD Fellowships in Economics, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is an innovative business
school located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, continental Europe's
financial hub and a region with a high quality of life. Since its
establishment in 1991, Frankfurt School has developed a strong track
record in research and teaching in the areas of Finance and
Management. With substantial financial support by the Dr Werner
Jackstädt Foundation, Frankfurt School established the East-West
Centre for Business Studies and Cultural Science which aims at
becoming an important hub for area studies Germany.

The ECBC is a member of the Competence Network 'Institutions and
Institutional Change in Post-Socialist Countries: Between Historicity
and Global Convergence,'which is supported by the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research. In the context of this initiative, we are
offering a scholarship for a Ph.D. research position at the Centre.

The position is available from spring 2010 for an initial duration of
3 years. We are looking for an excellent graduate of economics, the
humanities or the social science with interest in interdisciplinary
empirical research, with a good background in quantitative methods, an
excellent command of English and a good proficiency in Russian. The
research is expected to focus on the comparative study of fiscal
structure and regional economic development in Russia and China, with
a special emphasis on historical and cultural factors.

Our Ph.D. programme offers rigorous training in theoretical and
empirical economics and finance. Research students form an integral
part of the institution and are closely integrated in research
conducted at the ECBC. The Ph.D student will work under the
supervision of Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (Academic Director
of the ECBC) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman, together boffering a
strong back-up in institutional economics, Chinese and Russian area
studies, and econometrics.

Frankfurt School offers the infrastructure of one of Europe's top
business schools, the opportunity to participate in high-quality
applied research as well as excellent contacts to the financial
community. Further information on Frankfurt School is available at
www.frankfurt-school.de

If you are interested, please submit your application – curriculum
vitae, a statement of research interests, academic transcripts
(courses taken and grades), contact information for 2 academic
references, sample research paper or master thesis – electronically or
by mail until March 15th, indicating the earliest date at which you
could take up the position, to:

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management,
Claudia Kuckelmann,
Administration Office,
Sonnemannstrasse 9-11,
60314 Frankfurt / Germany;

c.kuckelmann[ at ]frankfurt-school.de;
Tel.: +49 69 154008-208

Interested candidates are also invited to contact Prof. Dr. Carsten
Herrmann-Pillath (c.hermannpillath[ at ]frankfurt-school.de) for
detailed information about the position.

Closing date: March 15th, 2010

Anci Creative Award 2010

Anci Creative Award returns after two successful editions. This
international competition is promoted by the National Association of
Italian Footwear Manufacturers, the reference point for worldwide
footwear manufacturers. Anci once again turns to creative artists,
invited to create artwork conceived with the aid of digital
technology. Footwear, a 3D fashion accessory by definition, is a
technological sculpture, which hides the secrets that make it come
true. So let us give a green light to Artists and their open vision
and interpretation of this object, who will refer to this little but
big universe. Works can be illustrations, traditional sculptures, or
CG3D. The jury will select 20 works that will be printed and inserted
in a breathtaking 3-D stereoscopic video. They will be showed to
visitors and international press during next Micam ShoEvent (Milano,
March 2nd to 5th, 2010). During the event the winner will be announced
and awarded with a prize money.

http://www.ancicreativeaward.net/en_index.php

Call for applications for foreigners for Hungarian state scholarships

Call for applications for foreigners for Hungarian state scholarships

Through the Hungarian Scholarship Board Office, the Hungarian Minister
of Education and Culture offers scholarships for foreign students and
professors of higher education institutions as well as research
fellows who intend to gain further professional experience in
Hungarian institutions of higher education or research. Scholarships
can be applied for under two systems:

BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

The Office of the Hungarian Scholarship Board (hereinafter HSB)
welcomes applications by citizens of countries (and territories) that
have a valid/effective educational co-operation programme with
Hungary, or a bilateral agreement signed by the Hungarian Government
or the Ministry of Education and Culture of Hungary and the relevant
ministry of the given country (or territory). Assessment and
shortlisting of applications is conducted by the relevant home country
(or territory) scholarship authority or Ministry of Education, as well
as dissemination of all information regarding the application
procedure and deadlines. The list of countries (or territories) and
contact information on the partner scholarship offices can be found on
our webpage (http://www.scholarship.hu/static/angol/partners/).

Although the Hungarian Scholarship Board accepts applications from
these countries (or territories) submitted directly to its Office,
please note that the applications evaluated and forwarded by the home
country (or territory) authorities always take precedence.

COUNTRIES WHOSE CITIZENS MAY APPLY ONLY ON THE BASIS OF BILATERAL AGREEMENTS:

Afghanistan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Palestine, Ukraine, Yemen and Vietnam.

SCHOLARSHIP POOL

In 2005 the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Hungary
established a "scholarship pool", a scholarship system of various
types of scholarships, allowing for applications from the following
countries/territories:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Jordan, Korean Republic, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia,
Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Russia, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom.
Citizens of Austria can also apply for Hungarian scholarships through
the Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn (www.omaa.elte.hu).

SCHOLARSHIP TYPES

Applicants can apply for all scholarship types in the "scholarship
pool" system. The scholarships offered in the bilateral agreements
announced by the foreign partners are also categorized according to
these scholarship types. In some cases the co-operation
programme/bilateral agreement does not contain all the scholarships
listed under the pool programme, hence they may not figure among the
scholarships announced by the partner office. For citizens of
countries that have a bilateral agreement and a partner scholarship
office it is recommended to submit their applications directly to HSB,
in the pool system, in case the bilateral agreement does not allow for
a specific type of scholarship listed in the pool programme.

Applicants are exempt who gained admission to a tuition-free program
at an institution of higher education (state-financed university,
full-time program), where the working language is different from
Hungarian.

The following scholarships are available in the Academic Year 2010/2011:

A - semester / partial studies (3-10 months)
Can be applied for by: undergraduate (BA/BSc) and graduate (MA/MSc)
students, especially those majoring in Hungarian Language and
Literature, as well as graduating students working on their theses,
and students enrolled in "single track" university programmes (such as
General Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, Veterinary Studies,
Architecture and Jurisprudence). Before application, students are
required to have completed minimum two semesters at their home
institutions. For Type A scholarship, an applicant may submit an
application only on one occasion during his/her BA studies, and on
another occasion during his/her MA studies.

B - postgraduate studies, research (3-21 days or 1-10 months)
Can be applied for by: applicants holding a Master's degree or an
equivalent university degree, including PhD students who intend to do
research for their dissertation, yet wish to stay in Hungary for less
than 12 months. (However, PhD students cannot acquire credits at their
host universities.)

C/1 - full PhD programme (36 months)
Only students proficient in Hungarian can apply, the scholarship is
conditional upon successful entrance exam / admission to the
respective doctoral school.

C/2 - partial PhD studies (12 months)
Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD programme at an accredited
institution of higher education in his/her home country or in a
foreign country (but not in Hungary).

D - postdoctoral studies / research (1-10 months)
Applicants must have a PhD or an equivalent degree.

E - research stay (3-21 days or 1-10 months)
For associate or higher ranking professors or for researchers holding
minimum a PhD or an equivalent degree.

F - summer courses in the summer of 2009 (1-4 weeks)
Courses must be chosen only from the list of Summer Courses 2010
published on the HSB website.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

These scholarships allow for study or research in any field of arts
and sciences during the granted period at an accredited Hungarian
higher education or research institution to be determined in advance.
Semester, partial, postgraduate studies and doctoral programmes must
be carried out in state-financed institutions where no tuition fee is
required. For Type A scholarship, an applicant may submit an
application only on one occasion during his/her BA studies, and on
another occasion during his/her MA studies.
Type A (semester /partial studies) and type C1/C2 (full PhD and
partial PhD studies) scholarships may not be extended. Type B
(postgraduate studies), D (postdoctoral studies, research), and E
(research stay) scholarships may be extended exceptionally, only under
special circumstances, on one occasion. The scholarships are valid
only for studies and research purposes in Hungary. HSB scholarships
can only be used for conducting studies or research in Hungary, which
means that scholarship-holders must stay in Hungary during the whole
period of their studies or research.

The scholarships are awarded for the summer of 2010, or the academic
year of 2010-2011, and these latter ones must be finished by 30 June
2011 at the latest.

CASES OF NON-ELIGIBILITY

1. Foreign citizens with a residence permit or in the course of
applying for a residence permit in Hungary cannot apply.
2. Men and women, who have an employment contract or employment
relationship as defined by the law in Hungary cannot apply.
3. Students applying for part-time or correspondence study
programmes cannot apply.
4. Students applying for non state-financed universities cannot apply.
5. Students admitted to tuition fee-paying institutions of higher
education cannot apply.