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U4 News | May 2016 |
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Dear U4 colleague,
Enclosed you will find the May 2016 U4 Newsletter with news on events, calls and activities within the U4 network or at one of the network partners. If you have trouble viewing this email, read the online version.
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New Cluster Chair for Social Sciences, Economics and Law
The U4 Network welcomes its new Cluster Chair for Social Sciences, Economics and Law, PD Dr. Sabine Grenz. Currently she is Acting Professor at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute of the University of Göttingen
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Berlin, 18 April 2016
U4 at the 'Going Forward' DAAD Conference
As one of the most prominent DAAD projects of the funding period 2013-2016 the U4 took the lead of the parallel session on one of the key issues of the conference: the implementation and governance of strategic partnerships.
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Uppsala, 16-17 June 2016
IVth U4 Peer Review
The central theme of the next peer review is Governance, with a focus on aspects of political governance and institutional autonomy, governance within the university and on funding mechanisms.
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Göttingen, 9-11 March 2016
Closure 2nd cycle Academic Leadership
The final session of second cycle of the Academic Leadership Programme for university leaders took place in Göttingen on the central theme: 'Managing Change and Preparing for the Future'.
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Groningen, 18-21 May 2016
Students Meeting in Groningen
From 18 till 21 May about 15 students from all U4 partners attended the 5th U4 Student Network meeting. The focus of the U4 Student Network is on sharing knowledge regarding several forms of student participation at the respective partner institutions.
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U4 Guest Lecturer Programme 'Multilingualism'
Following workshops on "Creating multilingual spaces" (Göttingen) and "Multilingualism across the lifespan" (Ghent) and various bilateral visits of scholars within the network, this year saw the opening of a joint lecture series on Multilingualism at the Department of Intercultural German Studies at the University of Göttingen.
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Göttingen, 17-18 March 2016
Workshop 'Ageing Lung'
In the framework of the U4 Ageing Lung network participants from all U4 universities came together in Göttingen to discuss about and elaborate on current research topics and interests in obstructive lung disease in order to further extend the cooperation.
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Istanbul, 8-12 March 2016
Winter School Antiquity VII
This year's U4 Winter School Antiquity took place in Istanbul and was organized by the colleagues from Uppsala University, at the Swedish, Dutch and German research institutes in Istanbul. The central theme of the winter school was ‘Transitions, Transmissions, and Transformations'.
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Göttingen, 2-3 November 2016
Conference: Internationalization of the Curricula
This conference focuses on the internationalization of the curricula – the integration of an international and intercultural dimension as well as a global perspective into the content of the curriculum and the learning and teaching processes.
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Groningen, 2-16 July 2016
EIT Ageing Brain Summer School
The 2016 edition of the Ageing Brain Summer School is funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health. The Summer School focuses on the early hallmarks and diagnosis of normal and abnormal brain ageing, the development of novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and novel strategies for clinical treatment.
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Groningen, 18-26 August 2016
Groningen Energy Summer School
The 2016 Groningen Energy Summer School for PhD students takes an interdisciplinary approach to the societal and technological dimensions of energy transition. The event will offer a unique opportunity to PhD students to become aware of different aspects of energy transition, to develop novel insights, and to create synergy in approaches to energy transition.
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Ghent, 24-26 August 2016
Summer Course 'Systems Engineering in Medical Assist Devices'
This course is an update for any post-graduate level in engineering, (bio)medicine and computational and interfacing systems regarding the topic of Medical Devices and Systems.
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Göttingen, 03-04 February 2016
Workshop 'Research Data Life Cycle'
On 3-4 February 2016 the University of Göttingen hosted a series of workshops about research data management and institutional repositories. Research data take on greater significance in today's scholarly communication, which is in part attributable to the growing fraction and amounts of digital data, new digital tools, and the requirements on replicability of scientific results.
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Uppsala - Göttingen, 10 June 2016
'Ph.D. Position at Uppsala University and the University of Göttingen (double Ph.D. degree)
There is an opening for a Ph.D. student position belonging to the ATLAS groups of Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University) and Stan Lai (University of Göttingen) with an anticipated start date of 01 September 2016.
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Save the date
May 23-24, Ghent: Workshop 'International Mediterranean Survey'
May 26-27, Ghent: Workshop 'Emotional, attentional and motivational infl. on visual perception'
June 16-17, Uppsala: Workshop 'Therapeutic Interaction'
June 16-18, Steningevik: Peer Review Session IV 'Governance'
June 23-25, Göttingen: Symposium 'Reverberations of Revolution'
July 2-16, Groningen: EIT Ageing Brain Summer School
July 17-22, Göttingen: Summer School 'HASCO'
July 17-23, Groningen: Summer School 'The Knowledge of the Curator'
August 15-20, Göttingen: Summer School 'Gender Studies'
August 18-26, Groningen: Vth Groningen Energy Summer School
August 24-26, Ghent: Summer Course 'The role of systems engineering in medical devices'
September 15-16, Göttingen: Cluster Meeting 'Science and Technology'
September 15-16, Ghent: Peer Review Session 'Sustainability'
September 22-23, Göttingen: Career Staff Training
November 2-3, Göttingen: International Conference 'Internationalization of the Curricula'
November 13-14, Groningen: Rectors' Meeting IX
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