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Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional nos conflitos da Internet

Realizado no dia 26 de Outubro de 2017, o I Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa Jurisdição e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional nos conflitos da Internet foi um evento multissetorial, que contou com a com a participação de membros dos mais diversos segmentos profissionais: Poderes Executivo e Judiciário; Academia (UFMG, UnB, UFJF e UniCeub); Sociedade Civil; e Setor Privado.

7 Reasons Why Berlin is a Successful Sharing City

Andreas Arnold: Germany’s capital city Berlin has a thriving sharing and collaborative economy, thanks in part to think-and-do tank OuiShare. Since 2012, the group has facilitated a lively exchange of dialogue and action in many different formats, which has led to a strongly connected network of over 200 different projects and more than 1,000 individuals.

Novo diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Sérgio Guerra lança 4ª edição do livro Discricionariedade, Regulação e Reflexividade

Edição conta com prefácio de Tercio Sampaio Ferraz JuniorO Professor Sérgio Guerra, da FGV Direito Rio, lança a quarta edição do livro “Discricionariedade, Regulação e Reflexividade – Uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas administrativas”. Com a atualização e a inclusão de novos tópicos, a obra propõe uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas que os administradores públicos têm que tomar baseados em questões técnicas em setores regulados, tais como como Telecomunicações, Energia e Transporte.

Um ano depois, impeachment de Dilma Rousseff é analisado em novo livro da FGV Direito Rio

Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira são os organizadoresUm ano após o fim do julgamento no Senado, o longo processo de impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ainda deixou muitas perguntas a serem respondidas, como os resultados do longo processo “jurídico-político” para o país. Para responder a algumas dessas questões, os professores da FGV Direito Rio, Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira organizaram uma análise de todos os acontecimentos em um livro intitulado “Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff – Entre o Congresso e o Supremo”.  

Mütter und Neugeborene in besten Händen: Höchste Qualität am UKD bestätigt

Die Besonderheit: Die Qualitätsprüfung erfolgte durch die Ärztekammer Nordrhein. Dabei wurden die personellen, apparativen und die baulichen Voraussetzungen für die Versorgung von Schwangeren und Neugeborenen am UKD erfolgreich überprüft. Die Uniklinik ist damit das erste Krankenhaus in Düsseldorf, das diese Auszeichnung direkt von der Ärztekammer Nordrhein erhielt.„Für Eltern bedeutet dieses Siegel Transparenz und Sicherheit, denn unsere Abläufe und Prozesse wurden streng von externen Gutachtern überprüft“, erklärt Prof. Dr.

Outsider Art – Historie, Gegenwart & Perspektive

Der Begriff Outsider Art – ursprünglich 1972 von Roger Cardinal als Übersetzung der antiakademischen Art Brut von Jean Dubuffet gedacht - nahm in großen Teilen Europas und Nordamerikas eine eigene Entwicklung. Er beschreibt eine Kunst jenseits etablierter Formen und Strömungen. Die Werke der Künstler/innen, die häufig am Rande der Gesellschaft stehen, loten die Grenzen des menschlichen Denkens aus und geben mit ihren eigensprachlichen, meist existentiellen Werken, Anlass zu grundsätzlichen Fragen unseres Daseins.

Exploring the Catalan Integral Cooperative in the Age of Crisis

Last year I went to Catalonia to conduct a field-study of one of the most interesting cooperative projects which have emerged in Europe in the age of crisis: the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC).
The CIC moto: ‘social transformation from below through self-management, self-organization and networking’

Professor Xue Addressed at 39th ICDPPC

 Organizer’s Thank-You Letter to Professor Hong Xue

Belonging is a superpower – Patterns for decentralised organising

If you work in any type of co-op, or non-hierarchical group, with open and inclusive values and aspirations for horizontal management, this post is for you. It summarises a workshop from the founders of Loomio, at which they shared their distilled wisdom for effective collaboration within groups.

Growing government innovation labs: an insider’s guide

Report by UNDP and Futurgov: “Effective and inspirational labs exist in many highly developed countries. In Western Europe, MindLab (Denmark) and The Behavioural Insights Team (UK) push their governments to re-imagine public services. In Asia, the Innovation Bureau in Seoul, South Korea, co-designs better services with citizens.

Dr. Filipa Tomé untersucht Blütenbildung bei Nutzpflanzen

CEPLAS, der Exzellenzcluster der HHU und der Universität zu Köln arbeitet zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Nutzpflanzenforschung. Ziel ist es, den Ertrag von wichtigen Nutzpflanzen wie Reis und Weizen zu steigern, angesichts sich ändernder klimatischer Bedingungen und limitierter Anbauflächen.

The blog journal elephantinthelab.org spots problems in science

You have probably heard the phrase “ the elephant in the room” to say that there is a problem that everyone knows, but no one talks about. As of July... MORE
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Digitaler Salon: Hacking the Ivory Tower

How can science have a greater impact on society? And how are science slammers and open access related to this? At the last Digitaler Salon in 2017, we’ll be digging... MORE
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Team Human: Richard Heinberg “There’s No App For That”

Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard and Douglas challenge the idea that technological “progress” is a panacea for solving systems-level crises like climate change.

How Wikimedia helped authors make over 3000 articles green open access via Dissemin

In light of this year’s Open Access week, Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available. This post has been cross-posted from Wikimedia Italia.

Inter-generational Collaborative Platforms

At OPEN 2017 one of the open space sessions which was proposed by Phil Carey focused on “Inter-generational Collaborative Platforms”. Here Phil explains what was discussed and the ‘call to action’ that developed from the session.

Dem Arzt „davonlaufen“: Gefäßsport schützt bei Schaufensterkrankheit

Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit zum strukturierten Gehtraining bei Patienten, die an der „Schaufensterkrankheit“, in der Fachsprache „periphere arterielle Verschlusskrankheit“(pAVK) leiden. „Wir wissen, dass gezieltes und strukturiertes Gehtraining einen Fortschritt der Erkrankung aufhalten und die verkürzte Gehstrecke dieser Patienten deutlich verlängern kann“, sagt Düppers, „Ich verstehe den Julius-Springer-Preis vor allem als Anerkennung dieses Konzeptes.“

Open data is shaking up civic life in eastern Europe

 in the Financial Times: “I often imagine how different the world would look if citizens and social activists were able to fully understand and use data, and new technologies. Unfortunately, the entry point to this world is often inaccessible for most civil society groups…

Better Data for Better Policy: Accessing New Data Sources for Statistics Through Data Collaboratives

Medium Blog by Stefaan Verhulst: “We live in an increasingly quantified world, one where data is driving key business decisions.

Inauguraron nuevo Santuario de la Naturaleza en Quebrada de La Plata

Un total de 1.100 hectáreas de los terrenos de la Estación Experimental Germán Greve Silva de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, ubicadas en la comuna de Maipú, se transformaron en el undécimo Santuario de la Naturaleza de la Región Metropolitana. Durante la ceremonia de inauguración se lanzaron bombas de semillas para reparar parte del daño que sufrió la zona en el incendio de noviembre del año pasado, y se entregaron los resultados del concurso del Fondo de Protección Ambiental Restauración Ecológica y Social.