'ICISA 2010' will take place in Seoul, Korea on April 21st -23rd, 2010. 'Information Technology' has been changing beyond cyber space and even expanding into physical space. As a result, Information Technology has converged and new challenges are also generated in the process of convergence between industries and technologies. In such an environment where Information Technology and Convergence Technique is constantly changing and developing at a rapid rate, an important purpose of 'ICISA 2010' is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners involved with Information Science and Applications. 'ICISA 2010' will provide a forum where researchers can present recent research results, describe emerging technologies, and new research problems and directions. Through this conference, ideas and solutions will be shared and adopted to apply to their own researches, resulting in aggressive progress in Information Science and Applications. The conference seeks contributio ... read more

The Network of National Agencies for the Youth in Action Programme organises a Newcomer training course on Youth Exchanges. The BiTriMulti training supports voluntary as well as full-time youth workers dealing directly with young people in developing their first international Youth Exchange in the framework of the YOUTH IN ACTION programme. This edition will take place in Romania, from 17-21 December 2009.

Aims and objectives:
- To provide a first international experience.
- To train in Youth in Action project management.
- To provide information about the Youth in Action Programme and especially about Youth Exchanges.
- To develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitude to organise a Youth Exchange.
- To give the opportunity to meet possible partner groups and to make contacts to different countries.
Hosting costs will be covered. Please check with the National Agency of your country if travel costs can be reimbursed.
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To celebrate March 8, Isis Centre for Women and Development (based in Fes, Morocco and directed by Dr Fatima Sadiqi) is organizing an international conference (March 8-10, 2010) on marginalized women: single mothers, divorced women, widows, household breadwinners, in brief women without men in a globalized world seriously threatened by the impact of the financial crisis.

Source: WUNRN
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http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-in-Action/Events-around-the-world/Intl-Conference

Discussing these categories of women is still taboo in the overwhelming majority of the Arab-Islamic countries, sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of the global south. In addition to a couple of plenary sessions, the conference will feature workshops with grassroot activists, visits to three listening centers, life storie ... read more

Overall aim is to train youth workers, youth leaders on being able to multiply human rights in the youth field emphasis on cultural diversity with active participation of young people using non formal methodology and cross community cooperation.
Theme and the overall aim of the training course: To raise awareness and develop attitudes in connection with cultural diversity, to develop understanding and skills towards using non formal methods within human rights education in local, regional and international level. To focus on mainly respecting cultural diversity and cross community cooperation in all over Europe and more widen area. Cultural diversities are within lifestyles, traditions, histories, gender, education, minorities as traditional, sexual and new minorities, etc of young people. To build a human rights multiply network with youth leaders and youth workers who establish and implement human rights youth projects emphasis on cultural diversity in local and regional lev ... read more

The Gulf Research Center is pleased to announce the holding of the first Gulf Research Meeting to be held at Robinson College, University of Cambridge from July 7-10, 2010. The meeting is organized by the Gulf Research Center Foundation office at Cambridge and done with the support of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies of the University of Cambridge.
The overall purpose and objective of the Gulf Research Meeting is to create an academic environment to foster Gulf studies and provide broader academic exchange amongst scholars in the Gulf Region. For the
first meeting, a total of twelve workshops along topical themes pertinent to the Gulf region have been identified and an open Call for papers has now been issued. For more details on the individual workshops and the registration process, please refer to the Gulf Research Meeting Website under www.grcevent.net/cambridge. Travel allowances for the meeting are provided. There will also be an opening event for all ... read more

The 'Cities for Local Integration Policies for Migrants' (CLIP) Network will be holding a High Level Meeting on 30 November and 1 December 2009 in Brussels entitled "Intercultural approaches to community-building and cohesion in European cities - what can European integration policy learn from cities on how to manage migration and diversity in times of economic slump?”.

This meeting will examine new evidence regarding intercultural relations and related policies; with result of studies from CLIP, the Open Society Institute, the Network of European Foundations and the Fundamental Rights Agency. Read more

 

Country or region: Belgium

Cities of Migration is organising a webinar on 1 December 2009 which will focus on "Youth participation and migrant voice”. Young people make up a significant percentage of international migrants and an increasing proportion of today’s urban populations. Yet, a recent report laments that relatively little is known about the young migrant experience.

The webinar will examine projects from Oldham, Paris, London and Lisbon that look at the active participation of young people in community development and their views on identity and belonging. Read more

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The Council of Europe, in partnership with the European Commission and the Government of Quebec, is organising the conference "Interacting in diversity” - open to public authorities, social workers, migrants, researchers. It will take place in Strasbourg, France, on 7-8th December 2009.
The purpose is to analyse the social and operational frameworks, in particular the acquisition of the more suited to fostering interaction in a context of cultural diversity, especially the development of public services in our pluralist societies.
This conference will deal primarily with the following topics:
the advantages and limits of the concept of reasonable accommodation in relation to the European standards on non-discrimination;
the nature of constraints affecting and potential for the interaction of "accommodations" deployed in Europe by social workers and mediators;
the need to adapt institutional language.
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Youth workers, youth leaders, young researchers, journalists, young bloggers or young artists or occasional trainers involved with intercultural dialogue and/or youth policy aged between 18 and 30 (exceptions will be possible) are invited to participate in a seminar on youth policy in intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region, organised by the Council of Europe in cooperation with Anna Lindh Foundation.
Please note that the application form addressed to the Council of Europe should be submitted on-line at http://courses.opencontent.it

, by 25th November 2009. P.S. If you reside in a country beyond the Council of Europe member states and the states parties to the European Cultural Convention, with questions concerning applications to the Seminar, you are advised to contact the Anna Lindh Foundation.
Deadline: 2009/11/25
Country or region: France

The TERENA Networking Conference is the major

annual European event in research networking, bringing together around 500 participants from many different countries. The 2010 conferen

ce will take place from 31 May - 3 June 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania,

organised by TERENA and hosted by LITNET, the academic and research network in Lithuania. Extended abstracts of 600 – 1200 words (rather than full papers) are invited on all subjects relevant to the conference theme: 'Living the network life'.

Papers can be submitted via the drop box at: http://tnc2010.terena.org/participate/submit/ The deadline for submission is *30 November 2009* and authors should follow the guidelines for extended abstracts.

 The guidelines, topics and more detailed information about the Call for Papers are available on the TNC 2010 website at:

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