This conference focuses on the use of systems modeling techniques in managing the complex social and environmental problems related to food systems, natural systems, wildlife management, water, health, transportation, and education.
A new brief has been added to TCI's Strategies for Transformative Change series. This series provides summaries of the scaling strategies employed by TAACCCT consortia and includes any available evidence of success.
A delegation, led by Northern Illinois University President Douglas Baker, to represent the Northern Illinois Regional P-20 Network joined President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden at a White House College Opportunity Summit on December 4, 2014.
In June 2014, Northern Illinois University (NIU) President Doug Baker convened a small group of community college presidents, superintendents, and key state leaders to explore establishing a Northern Illinois P-20 Network. The purpose of the network is to improve college and career success for our students through regional collaboration.
Subscribers may be interested in the note from Eurydice just received. The report - Tackling Early Leaving from Education and Training in Europe - is featured below.
There has been a raging controversy in India these past months around 'recovering black money' stashed abroad. All kinds of legal and political battles are being fought on the size, significance and ownership of black money kept abroad by Indians. Do NGOs have black money? Do international flows to development NGOs include black money? Does Indian development sector create black money? Does it get stashed abroad?
The 12th PASCAL International Observatory conference will be hosted at the University of South Africa from the 28th to the 30th of September 2015 with the theme Community Engagement in the 21st Century.
Nous avons le plaisir de vous adresser, en fichier joint, les BREVES du CMA de novembre 2014. Elles ont pour objectif de vous informer régulièrement sur les travaux et les projets du CMA.
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Ilpo Laitinen, City of Helsinki, Professor Balázs Németh, University of Pecs and Professor Roberta Piazza, University of Catania, have been appointed as Associate Directors of PASCAL. They will respectively have responsibility for developing the work of PASCAL in the Nordic countries, Eastern and Central Europe, and in Southern Europe.
Michigan State University is pleased to announce an important upcoming conference - Innovations in Collaborative Modeling: Addressing Complex Social and Environmental Problems through Systems Modeling Techniques.