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2012-03-14
5th International Black Sea Symposium 2012
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
“The Black Sea region as an influential crossroad between East and West: A path towards extroversion”
Athens, Greece, 2 – 4 July 2012
In its fifth year, the International Black Sea Symposium (IBSS) project builds on the success and positive impact of its previous four editions and brings together the next generation of stakeholders with an interest in the Black Sea area. The 5th International Black Sea Symposium on “The Black Sea region as an influential crossroad between East and West: a path towards extroversion” will be held in Athens, Greece, from 2 July to 4 July 2012. The ICBSS will welcome young professionals and international experts, for an intensive course on Black Sea issues.
The event’s working language will be English.
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2012-03-28
Summer School 2012
"Climate Change: Global Challenges and Local Responses"
2 – 4 July 2012, Athens, Greece
The 2012 Summer School on "Climate Change: Global Challenges and Local Responses" is organized by EURA (European Urban Research Association) and hosted and financially supported by the ICBSS (International Centre for Black Sea Studies) a related body of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) which serves as its acknowledged think-tank.The 2012 Summer School aims at organizing specialized courses for Ph.D. students whose research topics are related to the fields of climate change, environmental governance and the different types of relevant policies. Apart from the scientific exchange among Ph.D. candidates and acknowledged teachers, the Summer School seeks to create linkages among the participants of different national and cultural backgrounds.
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2012-03-20
ICBSS-RIEAS
Συζήτηση Στρογγυλής Τραπέζης «Παράνομη Μετανάστευση & Εμπορία Ανθρώπων στα Βαλκάνια και την περιοχή της Μαύρης Θάλασσας»
Το Διεθνές Κέντρο Μελετών Ευξείνου Πόντου (ΔΙΚΕΜΕΠ), σε συνεργασία με το Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), διοργάνωσε με επιτυχία Συζήτηση Στρογγυλής Τραπέζης με τίτλο «Παράνομη Μετανάστευση & Εμπορία Ανθρώπων στα Βαλκάνια και την περιοχή της Μαύρης Θάλασσας», τη Δευτέρα 19 Μαρτίου, στην αίθουσα του Γραφείου του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου στην Αθήνα.
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2012-03-14
Scholarship and Taiwan Fellowship
Here you can find all the relevant documents about the Scholarship and Taiwan Fellowship.
The establishment of the Taiwan Academy originates from the Republic of China President Ma Ying-Jeou’s cultural policy. Taiwan is the major Chinese cultural center where Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen, literature, architecture, arts and crafts, and traditional customs are promoted and preserved more completely as compared to the many regions influenced by Chinese culture. So far, a number of the Taiwan Academy Resource Centers have been established to disseminate information and organize seminars, workshops, and other activities that promote philosophy, literature, and arts. By doing so, the Taiwan Academy hopes to enhance cultural exchanges between Taiwan and the international community.
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2012-01-16
ICBSS Events 2012
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The Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) Dr. Z. Dimadama, met on 22 March with Turkey’s new ambassador to Athens Mr. Kerim Uras. Press Release available for download.
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The ICBSS and the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) completed the Round Table Discussion on “Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking in the Balkans and the Black Sea area”, in Athens, 19 March 2012.
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Dr. Zefi Dimadama, Director General of International Centre for Black Sea Studies, (ICBSS) and Ms. Agnes Hwa-Yue Chen, Taipei Representative in Greece signed a Letter of Intent, in Athens, on 13 March 2012.
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ICBSS Director General, Dr. Zefi Dimadama participated as a guest speaker in the annual “Business Week” (BW) event “Learning Organization: A Key to Competitiveness?” organised by the School of Business Administration (SBA) of the DEREE College in Athens on March 12-15. Read the Press Release.
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Anna Andrikopoulou, Panagiotis Liargovas and Nikolaos Chlepas participated at the SEARCH progress meeting which was held in Vienna on March 5th and 6th, 2012. See the agenda of the meeting in the following link.
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Dr. Zefi Dimadama, Director General of International Centre for Black Sea Studies, (ICBSS) participated in the Meeting of the BSEC Troika in open format with the COEST Working Party, in Brussels on 7 February 2012. Read the Press Release
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Dr. Zefi Dimadama participated as speaker in the Worksop on Maritime Affairs, “Towards a Stategy for the Adriatic Ionian Macro – Region”, the first in a series of events organised in the framework of the preparation for a EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-Region which was held in Athens on14 February 2012.
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2012-03-07
Formal Visit to Tbilisi
Within the framework of further promoting regional cooperation, ICBSS Director General, Dr. Zefi Dimadama, paid a visit to Tbilisi, as a special guest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Dr. Dimadama was accompanied by ICBSS Alternate Director General, Ambassador David Kereselidze. The scope of the visit was to further promote bilateral cooperation in fields of common interest such as energy security, environmental protection and sustainable development with a view to establishing an extended network of collaboration within the BSEC Member States.
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2012-03-02
Affiliation Agreement ICBSS and EILST
Affiliation between the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) and European Institute of Law Science and Technology (EILST)
Dr. Zefi Dimadama, Director General of International Centre for Black Sea Studies, (ICBSS) and Dr. Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Director of the European Institute of Law, Science and Technology (EILST) signed an Affiliation Agreement, in Athens, on 24 February 2012, aiming at establishing and developing cooperation between the two organisations with a view to promoting and enhancing the dialogue in fields of common interest.
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2011-12-23
EURA Newsletter
European Urban Research Association (EURA)
An International Network of Urban Scholars
See more to download the EURA Newsletter Issue 29
The aims of EURA:
- To encourage international exchange and co-operation in relation to urban research
- To stimulate and encourage interdisciplinary and cross-border urban research
- To contribute to urban policy debates.
At a time when global forces are strengthening and localism struggles to reassert itself, there is a need to re-examine the place which cities take in the social and economic order and this is what the European Urban Research Association (EURA) aims to achieve. This web site provides information about the origins of EURA, its aims and objectives and its charter. It also gives information about past and present EURA events, including conferences and workshops.
The official EURA website: http://www.eura.org
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2011-11-04
Energy Cooperation and Environmental Protection in the wider Black Sea area
The International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) & the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (CSS) completed the Round Table Discussion on "Energy Cooperation and Environmental Protection in the wider Black Sea area", that took place in Athens, Tuesday, 29 November 2011.
Read more to download the Press Release, Dr. Zefi Dimadama's Welcoming Speech and Dr. Gulshan Pashayeva's Opening Remarks.
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2011-10-17
Welcoming Note
It is with great pleasure that I am welcoming you to our new interactive web platform, a useful tool for the exchange of valuable information and knowledge; aiming at strengthening cooperation in the wider Black Sea area.
This new digital platform, designed by a professional web designer, emphasizes to the ease of use for all the guests and users. Guest visitors will be able to be informed about the Centre, our aims, goals, activities, projects, books and publications as well as future events. In addition, visitors will also be able to register on-line and gain access to a “members only” content section, create a users profile, upload articles, post comments on existing ones, access a discussion forum and an on-line document repository.
Furthermore, the ICBSS Web GIS is a brand new interactive tool with main goal to diffuse statistical and indicator data for the countries of the Black Sea via the internet, and present them mainly as maps. Under these terms the expected audience should be familiar with the basic mapping functionalities and terminology, but special care is taken in order to present an application interface that is easily used by both experts and non-experts.
Please keep in mind that the site is still on a trial base and some parts are under construction.
Enjoy!
Dr. Zefi Dimadama ICBSS
Director General
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Special partners
Partners
Featured projects
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IncoNet EECA
The S&T International Cooperation Network for Eastern European and Central Asian countries (IncoNet EECA) is a project coordinated by the ICBSS and funded through the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Community (FP7). The IncoNet EECA was launched on 1 January 2008 and its duration will be four and a half years.
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IncoNet EECA Deliverables & Publications
Here you can download the White Paper Final on Opportunities and Challenges in View of Enhancing the EU Cooperation with Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus in Science, Research, and Innovation.
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IncoNet CA/SC
S&T International Cooperation Network for Central Asian and South Caucasus Countries (IncoNet CA/SC) is a project coordinated by the ICBSS and funded through the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Community (FP7). The IncoNet CA/SC was launched on 1 April 2010 with duration of 36 months.
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SEARCH
Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRegionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods
SEARCH is a project financed by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development in the ‘Socio-economic sciences and the humanities’ area.
Read more to download Search January 2012 Newsletter, the Deliverables 1.1 & 1.2 & 6.1
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BSEC-HDF
The “Green Cluster of Knowledge Institutions of Black Sea: A Roadmap on Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency for Research and Academic Institutions” is a project coordinated by the ICBSS and funded by the BSEC – Hellenic Development Fund. The project was launched on 1st August 2011 and its duration will be 1 year.
You can also find attached an introduction by Dr. Zefi Dimadama from the Kick-off meeting- Web Conference that took place on Friday 11 November 2011 and a Final Report on Best Practices: Energy Efficiency and use of RES in Research and Academic Institutions", Athens 8 March 2012.
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The Black Sea Research Programme (BSRP)
The development of a “Black Sea Research Programme” (BSRP) constitutes a task and a deliverable of the BS-ERANET project. To implement this task a Task Force has been set-up that discussed the issue at a meeting in Istanbul (3/11/2010) and agreed to prepare a draft that, after consultation and consolidation by the Task Force members, will be presented to the BS-ERANET Steering Board for further improvement and approval. As a next step, the BSRP will be presented to potential stakeholders in order to seek their opinion and possible involvement in the implementation of the Programme.
Featured publications
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Xenophon Paper No. 10
This latest Xenophon Paper Special Edition emanates from one of International Centre for Black Sea Studies’ (ICBSS) most important bilateral synergies, which has underlined the importance of the Center’s role as a mutually advantageous framework for the synthesis of ideas, the composition of policy proposals and the facilitation of scientific exchanges at the highest level. The paper at hand is the scientific offspring of a joint programme developed by the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) and the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Azerbaijan (SAM) that underlined the significance of this joint Hellenic-Azeri Green Energy Forum "Energy cooperation and environmental protection in the wider Black Sea area"
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Policy Brief No. 24
"Building a Sustainable Future for the Black Sea area: New Perspectives & Challenges for B.S.E.C."
In accordance with the recent developments, the financial and economic crisis proved to have profound and long-lasting implications for the Black Sea area. Under these circumstances the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), a multilateral political and economic initiative which aims at the promotion of stability, prosperity and good-neighbourly relations in the region, had to acquire an attractive, feasible, prospect and renewed intellectual effort, in order to forward revised priorities for the countries of the Black Sea region in the difficult years to come. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats set the framework for the BSEC to enter a new phase with an overarching strategic approach under the concept of sustainable development.
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Black Sea Monitor 21
- Migration and illegal migration: approaches of a social issue affecting 21st century, by Dr. Zefi Dimadama
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Black Sea News No. 25
The Newsletter of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation under the supervision of BSEC Permanent International Secretariat sponsored by the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank.
Available for download in a pdf format.
