U4 Newsletter November 2017

Rik Van de Walle and Mieke Van Herreweghe new Rector and Vice-rector of Ghent University 

On 26 September Rik Van de Walle and Mieke Van Herreweghe were formally appointed Rector and Vice-rector at Ghent University after obtaining amply the necessary majority of the votes. 

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Ghent wins EAIE award for innovation in Internationalization

In the year in which both the 200-year anniversary of the university and the thirtieth birthday of the Erasmus programme is being celebrated, Ghent University is very pleased to be able to call itself the most innovative university of Europe in internationalization..

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Göttingen, 8 November 2017

70 Years International Office

The University of Göttingen celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Göttingen International Office with a series of events with contributions of former students, international partners, and Göttingen scholars.

Göttingen, 9 November 2017

Workshop 'Internationalisation of the Curricula'

On occasion of it s 70th anniversary Göttingen International Office organizes an international workshop for the exchange of best practices on the internationalisation of the curricula across the disciplines, with a particular focus on the role of international classrooms. 

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Groningen, 9-10 November 2017

Winter School 'Multilingualism'

On occasion of the 10th edition of the Conference on Multilingualism (COM2017) Groningen organizes a 5-day international Winter School targeted at graduate and PhD students on bi- and multilingualism. 

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Göttingen Call for Applications: U4 PhD Student, Researcher and Staff Mobilities in 2018

To support joint education, joint research and joint exchange between the four partner universities, the University of Göttingen will fund PhD students, researchers, and staff mobilities as well as events within the U4 network.

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Göttingen Short Term Programs 2018

The University of Göttingen is proud to announce a newly established program offering academic short-term courses for international students during semester breaks.

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Uppsala, 1 September 2017

Uppsala opens Segerstedt Building

On the 1st of September Uppsala opened the new central university hub. The building will house the university management and roughly 600 employees, gathering the whole university administration.

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Groningen, 20-22 September 2017

Career Staff Training

The third module in the staff training cycle ‘Professionalization of Career Services in a Global Context’ was hosted by the university of Groningen on the central topic: 'Future trends – What’s new in our field'.

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Groningen, 20-21 September 2017

Peer Review 'Campus Innovation'

Thie focus of the Vth session of the Peer Review was 'Innovation and building your Campus Eco-structure'. All partners exchanged their campus visions for bridging the gap between knowledge institutes and enterprises.   

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Brussels, 14-15 September 2017

Workshop Environmental Law

The 1st U4 Environmental Law Network Workshop on 'Governing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Decision-Making - Towards Equal Opportunities in Environmental Governance' was able to gather over 50 participants.

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Ghent, 11-13 September 2017

U4 'Biomass' Summer School 

The 1st edition of the U4 Summer School 'Sustainable Use and Re-use of Biomass' brought about 25 PhD and Master students together with diverse backgrounds. The programme focused on production, technological processes and the legal, economic and political aspects of the use of Biomass. 

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Ghent, 28 August - 2 September 2017

Summer School 'Ageing Brain'

The 6th edition of the U4 Summer School 'Ageing Brain' for senior Master students and junior PhD students was hosted by the Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Neurophysiology, -biology and – psychology (LCEN3) of Ghent University.

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Groningen, 20-25 August 2017

Summer School 'Family Ethics'

16 international PhD students and Postdocs took part in the summer course 'What about the Family? An interdisciplinary course on Ethical Issues in Health and Social Care' to focus on family ethics research questions under the lead of several U4 lecturers.

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Groningen, 20-24 August 2017

Summer School 'Antimicrobial Resistance' 

The 'AMR' Summer School offered a combination of theory and clinical and lab practicals, with the aim of creating the awareness  among the students of the need of interdisciplinarity in the fight against antibiotics resistance. 

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Groningen, 14-18 August 2017

Summer School 'Religion, Conflict and Peace'

The Summer School offered an intensive five day program for U4 PhD students and advanced Master students with lectures from U4 experts, approaching the central topic from different disciplinary and thematic angles. 

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Attica (GR), 23 July - 2 August 2017

U4 Research Stay in Thorikos

In the framework of the research cooperation between the Archaeological Institutes of Ghent and of Göttingen two Göttingen PhD students participated in the archaeological survey of Thorikos in Attica.

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Göttingen, 16-21 July 2017

HASCO Summer School

This year's Hadron Collider Physics Summer School (HASCO 2017) marked the 6th edition and gathered 60 undergraduate students from 15 different countries to learn about hadron collider physics. 

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Göttingen, 3 July 2017

Meeting 'Welcome Centre Campus & Region'

On 3 July Prof. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne and the team of the Göttingen Project 'Welcome Centre Campus & Region' met with Mr. Michiel Kasteleijn (Managing director of the 'International Welcome Centre North' (IWCN) in Groningen).

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Joint PhD Student - Uppsala and Göttingen

Petar Bokan has started a double degree Ph.D. program in Physics at Uppsala University and the University of Goettingen in 2016. He is jointly supervised by Prof. Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University) and Prof. Stan Lai (University of Göttingen). 

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