UniPID News
December 10, 2014 — Cooperation Across Borders seminar attracted over 160 participants
FinCEAL and UniPID organized a two-day seminar to discuss and reconsider the different cross-cutting issues of international research, innovation and development cooperation addressing global challenges on November 12 – 13 2014 in Helsinki Congress Paasitorni. We were happy to see that the...
December 1, 2014 — UniPID is hiring a Coordinator for the FinCEAL Plus Africa component
UniPID is hiring an Africa Coordinator for the FinCEAL Plus project.The emphasis in the position is in advancing and coordinating the EU-Africa science cooperation and the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) dialogue in Finland. The primary themes of the Africa component of the project...
November 19, 2014 — UniPID is concerned over the introduction of tuition fees
UniPID- network is concerned over the proposal to introduce tuition fees to non-EU/EEA students. In a comment delivered to the Ministry of Education and Culture, UniPID especially raised concerns over the initiatives influence to the internationalization of the teaching and research of the Finnish...
November 18, 2014 — Master’s Award in Development Studies 2014
UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research awarded Henry O. Salas Lazo the 2014 Master's Award in Development Studies at the UniPID and FinCEAL seminar "Cooperation Across Borders - Comprehensive Responses to Transecting Global Challenges" in Helsinki on the 12th of...
October 29, 2014 — Lecture & PhD workshop “Connected Sociologies: From Modernity to Postcolonial Critique”
The annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture and a PhD workshop “Connected Sociologies: From Modernity to Postcolonial Critique” by Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Warwick) will be organized on 20.-21.11. in Helsinki. The lecture and PhD workshop is organized by the Westermarck Society is...
October 23, 2014 — FinCEAL Targeted Travel Grant for the CCI seminar
FinCEAL has opened a Targeted Travel Funding Call to support the participation of a maximum of 10 experts to participate in the CCI -seminar in Helsinki, November 12.-13.11.2014. The call is directed especially to actors dealing with the universities internationalization strategies, building...
October 22, 2014 — UniPID Grants to support seminars on global development
UniPID launches a Call for Proposals to support the organization of a seminar on global development issues. The grants are intended to support multidisciplinary seminars that discuss a topic related to international development or global challenges. The seminar shall be organized during 2015.
October 13, 2014 — UniPID Virtual Studies Call for Proposals NOW OPEN
The Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID) is hereby inviting interested course coordinators to submit course proposals for the UniPID Virutal Studies programme.
September 19, 2014 — New networks created at the seminar on STI cooperation in Smart Cities held in Santiago de Chile
EU-CELAC Bi-regional seminar on STI cooperation in Smart Cities was held on September 10th in Santiago de Chile at the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). The event was organized by UniPID/FinCEAL in cooperation with CONICYT, VTT Technical Research...