The Emile Boutmy Scholarship 2010-2011, France

December 23, 2009

Sciences Po created the Emile Boutmy scholarship after the founder of
Sciences Po (1871) in order to attract the very best international
students from outside of the European Union. The Emile Boutmy
Scholarship is awarded to top students whose profiles match the
admissions priorities of Sciences Po and individual course
requirements.
Eligibility requirements

Students from outside of the European Union who have been offered a
place to study at undergraduate or Masters level are eligible.

This scholarship is awarded to students with excellent academic
credentials and whose profile matches that of their chosen course.
Students' financial situations are also taken into account when
assessing their applications.
Undergraduate programme: Amount and length of the scholarship

The Emile Boutmy programme can take several different forms for
students on the undergraduate programme. The length of the scholarship
is always dependent on scholarship recipients' academic results; they
must be ranked within the top half of students within their year
group.

1. A full tuition grant of 8900€ per year for the first two years of
the undergraduate programme, in addition to a grant to cover part of
the cost of living of €5000 per year.

Five exceptional Scholarships will be awarded for the 2010 intake.

Scholarship recipients will forfeit their right to the living costs
grant if their academic results are not with the top 50% of students
within their year group at the end of the first year *.

1. A grant of €8000 per year to cover tuition fees (equivalent to an
exemption of 85% of eligible fees) for the three years of the
undergraduate programme.

If the academic results of scholarship recipients are not within the
upper half of students within their year group at the end of the
second semester of the first year, they will receive a warning
notifying them that they must improve their results by the end of the
first semester of the second year. If by this time, the students'
results have not improved and they are not in the upper half of
students, they will forfeit their right to the scholarship as from the
second semester of the second year.*

If scholarship recipients academic results' place them within the top
10% of students in their year group at the end of their first year of
students**, they will be eligible for a grant to cover living costs of
€5000 for their second year of students; this will be in addition to
the grant covering tuition fees.

2. A grant of €4000 per year to cover tuition fees (equivalent to an
exemption of 45% of fees) for the three years of the undergraduate
programme.

If the scholarship recipients' academic results are not within the
upper half of their year group at the end of the second semester of
the first year, they will receive a warning notifying them that they
must improve their results by the end of the first semester of the
second year. If the student's results have not impr

oved by then and do not place him/her in the upper half of students,
they will forfeit their right to the scholarship as from the second
semester of the second year.*

If the scholarship recipient is within the top 10% of his year group
at the end of the first year**, he/she is eligible for a tuition fees
grant of €6000 per year (equivalent to an exemption of approximately
70% of tuition fees) as well as for a grant of €5000 to cover living
costs for the second year of study. This comes in addition to the
tuition fees grant. Only students having requested this grant will be
considered.

During the year abroad (third year of the undergraduate programme):

Scholarship recipients who are among the top 50% of students in their
year group at the end of their second year will retain their tuition
fee grant during their year abroad.

For those students awarded a grant to cover living costs in their
second year, a grant to cover the costs of the stay abroad will be
provided if deemed necessary and if the destination justifies.

* For example, in 2007-2009, the average mark required was 13.5/20.

** For example, in 2007-2008, the average mark required was 15/20.
Masters level: Amount and length of the scholarship

The Emile Boutmy programme can take several different forms for
students at Masters level. The length of the scholarship is always
dependent on scholarship recipients' academic results; they must be
ranked within the upper half of the students within their year group.

1. A grant of 10000€ per year to cover tuition fees (equivalent to an
exemption of 80% of eligible fees) for the two years of the Masters,
in addition to a grant to cover part of the cost of living of €6000
per year.

Scholarship recipients will forfeit their right to the living costs
grant if their academic results are not with the top 50% of students
within their year group at the end of the first year *.

2. A grant of €10000 per year to cover tuition fees (equivalent to an
exemption of 80% of fees) for the two years of the Masters.

Scholarship recipients will forfeit their right to the grant if their
academic results are not with the top 50% of students within their
year group at the end of the first year *.

3. A grant of €5000 to cover tuition fees (equivalent to an exemption
of 40% of fees) for the two years of the Masters.

Scholarship recipients will forfeit their right to the grant if their
academic results are not with the top 50% of students within their
year group at the end of the first year *.

* For example, in 2007-2008 the required average mark was 13.5/20.

To apply for the Emily Boutmy scholarship, please fill out the
relevant pages in the general application form. For the academic year
2010-2011, undergraduate applicants for the Emily Boutmy schlolarship
must submit their application by May 4, 2010 at the very latest.
Graduate applicants must submit their application by March 15, 2010.
Applications received after these dates will not be processed.

http://admissions.sciences-po.fr/en/financial-support-emileboutmy

Live2011.com Grand Prix

DEADLEINE:
30 June 2010

Turku, the European Capital of Culture in 2011, has initiated one of the largest media art & new media competitions in the world

Turku 2011 invites artists and new media professionals to enter the competition in eight different categories, with a combined total value of prizes worth more than 140,000 euro. The founder of Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has committed himself to be the official patron of the digital Capital of Culture and the Live2011.com Grand Prix.

The competition categories cover a broad spectrum within the fields of media and new media, including for example, social media applications, free audiovisual expression, interactive works and on-line games. The category with the largest total prize sum (Culture 2.0 – A Social Media Application, 40,000 euro) is looking to award innovative, creative web community applications.

Turku is the 2011 European Capital of Culture. Live2011.com adds to the attainment of the year’s programme and creates new outlets for experimentation, participation and creation. At the same time, it serves as a platform to further increase the visibility and internationality of digital content producers.

http://www.live2011.com/

Postdoctoral Research Position in Mathematical Modelling of Growth in Physical and Biological Systems, University of Oxford, UK

Postdoctoral Research Position in Mathematical Modelling of Growth in
Physical and Biological Systems, University of Oxford, UK

3 year Postdoctoral Research Position in Mathematical modelling of
growth in physical and biological systems

Vacancy Reference: BK/09/033
Grade: 7
Salary Range: Starting Salary £28,839-£30,594
Appointment Term: 3 years

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral research position, funded by
the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global
Research Partnership (GRP), to work with Professor Alain Goriely at
the newly established Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied
Mathematics (OCCAM). This position is available from 1 March 2010.

OCCAM has been established with substantial funding from the KAUST
GRP. The Centre, which is part of the Mathematical Institute, is
allied to a global network of mathematicians. Aiming to meet the
ever-increasing global demand for quantitative understanding of
complex scientific phenomena, OCCAM has been built on the strength of
four pre-existing groups of applied and computational mathematicians
working in Oxford: the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, the Centre for Mathematical Biology, the Numerical
Analysis Group and the Computational Biology Group. It has a symbiotic
relationship with other scientific communities which have a need for
problem-solving mathematics both within the University of Oxford and
beyond. Over the first five years the Centre will employ 40 new staff
and students.

Growth processes are found in many physical and biological systems
such as planetary accretion, morphogenesis, and tumour progression.
The project will involve developing mathematical tools for the
analysis of growth processes within the framework of continuum
mechanics. In particular, the project will focus on accretive growth
(the deposition and accretion of new materials on existing surfaces).
Accretive growth has applications to physical, biological, and
industrial problems, such as planet genesis from dust clouds,
secondary growth in trees, glacier and snow buildup, horn and seashell
expansion, bone growth, wound healing, coil winding, and surface
hardening.

The main goal is to formulate a general theory of accretive growth
based on nonlinear elasticity and thermodynamics, and differential
geometry. The modelling of specific systems will involve the
derivation of coupled nonlinear continuum equations, and the solution
of these equations using analytical and numerical techniques.

Applicants should have a PhD (awarded or submitted at the time of
taking up the position) in mathematics or related discipline, together
with expertise in applied mathematics and continuum mechanics.
Experience with modelling of experimental systems and knowledge of
differential geometry is desirable.

Further particulars may be obtained from the Administrative Assistant
at The Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB, email
vacancies[ at ]maths.ox.ac.uk and at this website. Applications should
include a Curriculum Vitae, a covering letter explaining your
suitability for the position and how you meet the selection criteria,
and the names and contact details of two referees.

Applications must arrive by noon on 8 January 2010. Ensure that you
clearly quote the reference BK/09/033. Candidates should ask their
referees to send their references directly to the Administrative
Assistant, Mathematical Institute so that they arrive before the
closing date. It is the responsibility of candidates to ensure that
their references arrive by the closing date. Interviews for this
position will be held late January.

Committed to equality and valuing diversity.

Closing Date: 08/01/2010
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/11148

Chinese Government Scholarships - Postgraduate Study Project

The "Chinese Government Scholarships - Postgraduate Study Project",
set up by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE), is intended to
provide support for building universities to an international high
level, and to promote Chinese higher education. Enrolment is managed
directly by China's key universities. The MOE has entrusted the China
Scholarship Council (CSC) with maintaining the enrolment records and
handling the routine management.

Categories of applicants and duration of scholarship

Categories of Applicant

Duration of Study and Scholarship

Master's Degree Students

2-3 academic years

Doctoral Degree Students

3-4 academic years

Note: Courses start in September 2010. In principle, the duration of
the scholarship as specified at the time of admission can NOT be
extended. However, if scholarship students take a one-year Chinese
language course first, their scholarship will be extended for one
year.

Scholarship details

1. Full scholarship:

- Exemption from registration fees, tuition fees, laboratory experi
ment fees, any internship fees, and costs of basic course materials
and accommodation on campus;

- Living allowance;

- One-off settlement subsidy provided following registration;

- Out-patient medical services charges together with membership of the
national Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit Plan
forInternational Students in China.

admissions@xmu.edu.cn
http://http://www.scholarships-links.com/viewdetail/882/Applications-for-Chinese-Government-Scholarships-2010.html

European Prize for Urban Public Space

WHY PUBLIC SPACE?
Given the reductionism and oversimplification of some of the
large-scale urban projects implemented in Europe in recent years, and
the risks of homogenisation and impoverishment of the urban landscape,
we believe that promoting public space and making known its political
and plural character and the diversity of functions it can embrace, is
an ideal way of stimulating urban projects that aim to reinvent and
enhance the structural role that this space has always played in
European cities.

The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition
that aims to highlight the importance of public space as a catalyst of
urban life, and to recognise and foster investment by public
administrations in its creation, conservation and improvement, while
also understanding the state of public space as a clear indicator of
the civic and collective health of our cities.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Cité de
l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), The Architecture Foundation
(London), the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Rotterdam), the
Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna) and the Museum of Finnish
Architecture (Helsinki) have announced the SIxth European Prize for
Urban Public Space, which is to be awarded on 11 June 2010 in
Barcelona. The first European Prize for Urban Public Space was offered
in 2000 and since then it has been awarded on a two-yearly basis with
the aim of recognising and promoting activities for the recovery and
improvement of public space in European cities. The sixth award of the
Prize is now announced in keeping with the aim of highlighting and
making known projects that have been completed in Europe between 2008
and 2009.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
In order to enter for the European Prize for Urban Public Space, the
works must be presented for the award by the institutions that are
responsible for the intervention, or by its authors. The Prize covers
the geographic region of the Council of Europe (http:www.coe.int/).If
it is desired to present interventions related with the creation of
new urban spaces, it must be borne in mind that, apart from general
considerations about the effect as a whole, the results achieved
within these public spaces and their impact on community life will be
the ones that are specifically evaluated.
Since some urban interventions involve long periods of work before
their completion, projects that have not been fully completed in 2008
or 2009 may also present for the Prize if enough phases have been
finished so as to enable assessment of the urban repercussions of the
intervention as a whole. In order to present for the Prize, the
required documentation as specified in these rules must be submitted
before the established deadline.

SCHEDULE
15 November 2009
Opening of period for presenting projects

29 January 2010
End of period for presenting projects

25 and 26 March 2010
Meeting of the International Jury of the Prize

11 June 2010
Award of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010

Public Space
http://www.publicspace.org/en/prize/rules/2010

Cross Connection Ballet International Choreography Competition, Copenhagen, Apr 2 (deadline: Feb 20)

Cross Connection Ballet 3rd International Choreography Competition.
The goal for the Competition 2010 is to offer a venue for new work to
be shown allowing aspiring choreographers an opportunity to exercise
their craft and gain exposure for their work.

Cross Connection Ballet Company is proud to announce our 3rd
International Choreography Competition, to take place Friday April
2nd, 2010 at the Stærekassen Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Cross Connection Ballet is an ensemble of dancers based in Copenhagen.
Our mission is twofold, to promote dance by performing for a broad
audience, while fostering emerging choreographers and new work. Our
ensemble is comprised of dancers from a collection of prestigious
companies including Batsheva Dance Company, Company Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui, Dansk Danseteater, L'Opéra Naional de Paris, the Royal
Danish Ballet, and Skånes Dansteater, as well as freelance artists.

The goal for the Competition 2010 is to offer a venue for new work to
be shown allowing aspiring choreographers an opportunity to exercise
their craft and gain exposure for their work.

You will find more information about Cross Connection Ballet, and an
application form to the Choreography Competition 2010 as well as more
about the ensemble at the website: www.crossconnectionballet.com

Application deadline (Postal Stamp) is Saturday February 20th, 2010

Call for applications - Artist-in-residence programme in Budapest

Research into the unknown – improvisational laboratory / 2010, is a residency programme in improvisation in dance and other artforms, and its relation to awareness and perception of performer and audience.

It is organized by Michaela Hargitay/A (curator) and Zsóka Nej/Workshop Foundation/H (coordinator), artistic coach: Eszter Gál/H

Call for applications:

Artist-in-residence program in Budapest, Hungary
19th Febr – 20th April, 2010

Michaela Hargitay (A), Eszter Gál (H) and Zsóka Nej/Workshop Foundation (H) invite you to apply for a residency in the frame of Research into the Unknown, a program that aims at encouraging artists to research on improvisation as an artistic tool, as a means of creation in contemporary dance.

One Hungarian and one foreign choreographer/creative dancer participate in the residency programme each semester and they choose partners, artists from other artforms, with whom they venture into the Unknown in an experimental fashion with the help of improvisation.

The programme is made up of three consecutive steps, in each step the production period is followed by a presentation. The first demonstration offers a possibility to present a rough work-out of the artistic concept in a studio, with the integration of the audience as an active part of the performance. The second step is a work-in-progress show in a (theatre) studio with minimal lights and technical help, with audience feedback-round at the end. The closing evening of the residency programme at the end of the third step is a theatre performance where participating pairs present the results of their research work.

What's offered?

· rehearsal space
· financial support
· accommodation
· travel costs (one trip to Budapest and back)

Who can apply?

Performing artists who
· are experienced and curious to research into the subject of improvisation in dance
· wish to collaborate with Hungarian colleagues from a different art field
· have participated or currently are participating in any DÉPARTS program* or were/are students of P.A.R.T.S.

How to apply?

Please send the listed materials via e-mail: workhsop@c3.hu
or by post: Workshop Foundation, 1094 Budapest, Liliom utca 41,
· enclosed completed application form (we send the application form by email)
· detailed CV,
· concept description (including from which artform you would like to choose your partner),
· portrait of yourself,
· other photos and
· video of your work (DVD, CD-ROM, VHS, it is also sufficient to provide a link if your video is available on a web page)

Application deadline: 8th January 2010.
Decision: 18th January 2010.
Programme period: 19th Febr. – 20th April 2010.

Participation for a shorter term is not possible!

Further information: Workshop Foundation, +361/456 2045, +361/456 2052, workshop@c3.hu, www.wsf.hu