International Thesis Award: South of the World

 ISF-Fi (Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Firenze ONLUS or Engineering without Borders – Florence) is organizing the International Thesis Award “Premio Tattarillo” for Bachelor, MS and PhD theses with the objective to stimulating the interest of students and international academia community in sustainability topics in the “South of the World.”

Tattarillo Award aims to deepen and circulate the concept of “Appropriate Technology” as a means for:

• knowledge transfer and awareness spreading among  populations, to promote development
• models appropriate to their specific socio-economic and environmental reality;
• satisfying the needs of a community arising from  its own socio-economic and environmental  reality;
• supporting the debate and the encounter among different cultures also through discussion  regarding technological choices.

The Award is addressed to any student graduated in any University with a Bachelor Degree or a

Master Degree or a PhD. The thesis may belong to any faculty; they are not limited to Engineering faculties. The defence of the submitted thesis must have been held between the closing date of the present Award and no earlier than 1st January 2009.

Participant theses have to deal with  studies and/or applications of appropriate technologies in a context classifiable as South of the World, in the sense previously specified.

Tattarillo Award 2012 will award 3 prizes of 1000 € each. The judging panel and the supporters of the Award can also confer special mentions.

The prize-giving public ceremony will be held in the month of June 2012 in the “Salone de’ Dugento” hall in Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze.

As in past editions, ISF-Fi will draw up and publish (in paper form and/or via web) a collection of the reports of accepted theses.

Deadline: 31 January 2012.

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International Conference on Gender Based Violence & Call for Papers

 Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is both a human rights as well as a public health concern. Gender Based Violence is a persistent and universal problem occurring in every culture and social groupings. GBV, mostly perpetrated against women has been the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world.
Therefore, gender-based violence is not exclusively a woman’s concern. It is both a cause and consequence of gender perceptions. GBV has shifted the focus from women as victims to gender and the unequal power relationships between women and men created and maintained by gender stereotypes as the basic underlying cause of violence against women.
From the foregoing the Gender and Affirmative Action Implementation Centre, Kenyatta University is organizing an International GBV Conference, the first of its kind, aimed at expanding knowledge about the magnitude of GBV, its impact and the factors underlying the experience and consequences of GBV in an effort to reduce its spread and effects. All sessions will be held at Kenyatta University.
Call for Papers
You are invited to send your abstracts of not more than 250 words in English; font size 12; Times Roman; spacing 1.5. A soft copy should be received by 15th February 2012 via e-mail: gbvconference@ku.ac.ke or kugbvconference@gmail.com. The abstract should outline aims, content and conclusions. It should include the title, author’s name, and affiliated institution, email, address and telephone number. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to submit Full Papers by 30th April 2012.
Posters will also be accepted especially from those already engaged in research or interventions on gender based violence.
Interested participants should submit abstracts on the following sub-themes:

• Masculinities/Femininities
• Institutions of Learning/Workplace
• Poverty
• HIV/AIDS
• Religion and Culture
• Media
• Human Rights
• Interventions for Survivors
• Theoretical Conceptions
• Enhancing Reporting Mechanisms
• Legal and Policy Issues
• Language
• Governance
• Socio-Economic Development
• Marginalized and Vulnerable People
• War and Conflict Situations
• Militarism

Important Dates

• 1st November 2011: 1st Call for Abstracts
• 1st December 2011: 2nd Call for Abstracts
• 15th February 2012: Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
• 31st March 2012: Review and Communication of Successful Abstracts
• 30th April 2012: Submission of Full Papers
• 31st May 2012: Follow-Up for Submission of Full Papers
• 30th June 2012: Final Call for Full Papers
• 31st July 2012: Finalize on Full Papers

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