When: 14^th – 18^th of July, 2014

Where: Crete, Greece

Registration Deadline: 30^th of June, 2014

Since 1999, the European Agent Systems Summer School aims to provide a valuable forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in its field for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level. EASSS has been organized annually in different European locations since the beginning. This year’s school will feature additional courses covering topics related to social intelligence. It will be co-organised by the European Network for Social Intelligence and also serves as their official Summer School.

URL: http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/easss2014

When: 30^th of June – 13^th of July, 2014

Where: Izmir, Turkey

Application Deadline: June 6^th, 2014

The Department of Cinema and Digital Media, Izmir University of Economics (Turkey) and the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Lesvos (Greece) offer an intensive, hands-on Documentary Summer School in Izmir and Mytilene this summer. The workshop will be held one week in Izmir and one week in Mytilene, Lesvos island. The participants will team up in small multinational teams in order to devise, create, script, film and edit their documentaries in Turkey and Greece under the supervision of experienced instructors and professionals of the two Universities.

URL: https://audiovisual2014.pns.aegean.gr/el/

It has been proven that rain does not stop a TODOS Summer BBQ! Thank you to all of those that showed up yesterday. We hope you enjoyed the weather, food and company as much as we did.

Best,

the TODOS board

We are happy to announce that a new version of the PhD Candidate guide is now in press. The .pdf version of the guide can be found on our web-pages.

URL: https://site.uit.no/todos/?page_id=256

Welcome! The IX Valencia Summer School in Business and Economics is a high-level training programme organized by the Faculty of Economics (University of Valencia) and sponsored by Fundación La Caixa and the Academy of International Business – Western Europe (AIB). The main aim of the summer school is to make valid and rigorous contributions to the selected areas of study. It will encourage interaction between participants and speakers from diverse backgrounds, while allowing for enjoyment of the city of Valencia. This current year the Summer School offers two highly-specialised courses in economics and business, taught by professionals who are leading figures in their field.

Course: Research Methodology: An introduction to modeling with structural Equations

When: 2^nd – 4^th of June, 2014

Course: Dynamic Panel Data Models

When: 23^rd – 25^th of June 2014

Course: Management, Globalization, Innovation and Technology

When: 2^nd – 4^th of July, 2014

URL: http://www.uv.es/economia/summer-school/

RECENS is a research center led by Károly Takács, promoting high quality research in social network analysis. RECENS is part of Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is located in Budapest, Hungary in the beautiful Buda castle.
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher who will participate in our research project “Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations”. The project proposal is available at our website: recens.tk.mta.hu
Candidates should have received a Ph.D. already or should be able to demonstrate that their Ph.D. will be submitted for defense in 2014.

More information: http://tk.mta.hu/research-fellow

The SiN AGM was held in Oslo on the 7^th of May. Ekaterina Korshunova and Lindis Merete Bjoland represented TODOS. The new governing board of SiN was elected and consists of 8 members from the different member organizations. The minutes from the meeting will be available soon.

President:           Morten Stornes, DION (NTNU)

Vice-president: Izaskun Muruzábal-Lecumberri, UiSDC (UiS)

Treasurer:           Magdalenda Bruch, FODOS (NMBU)

Member:             Anders Farholm, NIHSPO (NIH)

Member:            Erlend Dancke Sandorf, TODOS (UiT)

Member:             Jesper James Alvær, Kunststipendiatforum

Member:             Marthe Emelie M. Buan, DION (NTNU)

+ one member from UiO Doc.

URL: http://stipendiat.no/wordpress/

Forrige uke ble tilstandsrapporten for høyere utdanning lagt frem av kunnskapsdepartementet. Rapporten kan du finne i sin helhet på regjeringens nettsider.

URL: http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/kd/dok/rapporter_planer/rapporter/2014/tilstandsrapport-uh-2014.html?id=758598

Når: 3. September – 2014

Hvor: Universitetet i Stavanger

Påmelding: 1. August – 2014

I anledning innvielsen av forskerskolen PROFRES, ønsker vi å rette søkelyset mot den profesjonsrettede og praksisnære forskningen innenfor helse, velferd og utdanning.

Hele programmet og mer om forskerskolen kan dere finne på nettsidene.

URL: http://www.uis.no/forskning-og-ph-d-studier/forskerskolen-profres/kick-off-og-symposium-2-4-september-2014-article82309-12507.html

Søknadsfrist: 6. Juni – 2014

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg lyser ut inntil 3 stipender som støtte til 1 måneds faglig opphold – og reisestøtte – i St. Petersburg.

Stipendutlysningen er åpen for alle fagfelt, og skal være et bidrag til å dekke ekstra reise- og oppholdskostnader i forbindelse med oppholdet i St. Petersburg.

Det norske universitetssenter i St. Petersburg stiller til rådighet arbeidsplass med e-posttilgang, sine faglige nettverk til universiteter og forskningsinstitusjoner i St. Petersburg, og informerer om muligheter for tilgang til samlinger og biblioteker, m.m.

Oppholdet må gjennomføres innen utløpet av høstsemesteret 2014.

Det gis kr. 2.500 i reisestøtte og kr. 12.500,- til dekning av kost, losji og andre utgifter. Eventuell støtte utbetales til den enhet som står for lønnsutbetalingen, som så må sørge for utbetaling av trekkfritt stipend.

Mer informasjon: http://en.uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=377059