Sentences with phrase «building knowledge societies»

It features chapters on: promoting quality education in islands; building island resilience, with an emphasis on reisilience to climate change; valuing and sharing island heritage and identities; building knowledge societies in islands; enabling island cohesion and social well - being; managing natural resources for a sustainable future; and the UNESCO participation programme in SIDS.

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In a 2012 survey, Canada's Asia - engaged professionals gave top priority to two other competence - building activities: gaining experience in Asia through internships, co-op placements and study abroad; and building a broader and more solid foundation of knowledge about Asian societies and economies.

In a bid to improve access for policy makers to industry knowledge, the Chartered Institute of Building has launched a new website that delivers key information, data and perspectives that reveal the true extent and value of construction professionals to UK society.

E-Marketing and Digital Media Entrepreneurship Training has the potential to help create a more practical and current set of learning tools to match the rapidly changing skills required in today's workforce, building a new generation with the required skills and confidence to succeed in an emerging knowledge society.

He added, «it aims at cultivating in the youth of Ghana improved civic participation, knowledge and attitudes, and the practice of critical and objective analysis of public issues as well as the effective use of freedom of expression and association to build more peaceful, tolerant and open societies in Ghana especially towards the 2016 elections.»

The program builds on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society.

Building on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large, the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities.

DoSER builds on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large.

I focus on three issues: (i) using the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) process to bridge SDGs and scientific communities, (ii) choosing targets, indicators, and roadmaps related to STI, and (iii) the imperative of building knowledge - based societies.

«The purpose of the paper was to provide the detailed recipes and protocols so that others can easily duplicate the work and help to further permeate the idea of «building with biology» — so that other researchers and educators can have the tools and the knowledge to build these bio-hybrid systems and attempt to address challenges in health, medicine, and environment that we face as a society,» stated Rashid Bashir, a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois.

Snow argued that practitioners in both areas should build bridges, to further the progress of human knowledge and to benefit society.

Thousands of customers complain every year to banks and building societies that money has been removed from their accounts at cash machines without their knowledge.

«PhDs prepare the medical doctors for a healthy society; the engineers to build the roads, bridges, dams, hospitals and schools; the agriculturalists to ensure food security; the educators to shape the next generation of teachers, not to mention economists, lawyers, scientists, business specialists — all contributing to the development of a «knowledge» society,» he writes.

Under the theme «Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society,» more than 11,000 scientists, educators, journalists, and others explored ways to encourage research across borders.

The disaster is about where we construct our buildings and how, what preparation we can do for storms, and how society chooses to support those without knowledge, resources, or opportunities to act on their own.

The Conference of the European Higher Education Area Ministers was followed by a meeting with Ministers from different parts of the world in the Second Bologna Policy Forum on «Building the Global Knowledge Society: Systemic and Institutional Change in Higher Education» that was concluded with the Vienna Bologna Policy Forum Statement.

This transformation can only happen if society's most vulnerable youth and adults acquire basic literacy skills that equip them with the knowledge and confidence to improve their own lives and build more resilient communities,» Ms Bokova added.

In a knowledge - based society, education is greatly appreciated as more people are becoming interested in learning new things and building their skills.

I thus spread knowledge as regularly as I am doing in order to build power atoms in society, which will merge to produce power molecules and compounds necessary to vulgarize power development and to reduce poverty within my immediate society and the world.

Knowledge - based schooling puts the emphasis of early education on teaching and learning an enabling core of broadly shared knowledge — enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the widerKnowledge - based schooling puts the emphasis of early education on teaching and learning an enabling core of broadly shared knowledge — enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the widerknowledge — enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the wider society.

Rather than accept a future of low - skill, low - wage work for our impoverished young people, we aspire to build their «human capital» — their knowledge, skills, capabilities, talents, habits, character, however you want to phrase it — so that, among other things, the labor market will one day repay their contributions to society with a wage that far exceeds any minimums.

Aligned with college and work expectations; Clear, understandable and consistent; Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills; Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards; Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and Evidence - based.

But do all these «multiple measures» really lead us to achieve the three most often cited goals of testing: building proficiency in basic skills, closing achievement gaps, and fostering the top - notch knowledge and skills that students will need in a competitive global society?

Our second - level schools aim to provide an education that will enable all students to contribute meaningfully to their communities, embrace the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a democratic society and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to live their lives and to build their careers in the 21st century.»

Lytton's book was the foundation of the Vril Society in Germany, which was created by 3 psychic women, and actually channeled the scientific knowledge to build successful flying saucers (really levitating saucers).

Your knowledge and ideas are the building blocks for the next generation, the foundation that ensures we continue to progress as a society.

SHOWS (selection) 2014 still on view: Kunst im Bau 5, installation in the former engineering workshops of the Isarthal Railway, Munich (curator Christoph Nicolaus) UNPAINTED media art fair, Munich, lab 3.0: positions of media art (curator Li Zhenhua) 2013 ikono On Air Festival on ikonotv, ikono Menasa and numerous locations in Berlin Villa Biesental, Berlin, K - Geist 100 Economy Pack Installation in the studio building of the City of Munich, K - Geist 100 Studio, (with Jutta Burkhardt) 2012 Satellite For Contemporary Art, Platform 3, Munich, Raw Material Artistic Spirit Repository For Knowledge And Art in the Syntopic Salon, Potsdam, Germany, a collaboration with the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science Biennale For One, KloHäuschen Munich, Germany German Consulate General, New York, Etsi Omnes Ego Non 2011 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, USA, The Shadows of the Fire in my Mind, (solo show) Regensburg New Art Society, Regensburg, Germany, kitchnapping goes shopping Kunstherberge Birkenau, Munich, Germany, The Driftwood Project (Feb — Mai) Salon, ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany (solo show) 2010 Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, New York, USA Gallery Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich, Germany, Et In Arcadia Ego, (solo catalogue) 2009 Ebersberg Art Society, Ebersberg, Germany Brainwash, performance at St Luke's Church, Munich Art Meets Fashion, nurjungekunst.de, Prater Island, Munich 2008 The Medium of Drawing, Great Art Show, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 2007 The Dark Side of Beauty, nurjungekunst.de, Munich, Germany real, sortiert, fingiert, Linhof - Gallery, Munich, Germany Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria 2006 Landshut Art Society, Landshut 2005 Ebersberg Art Society, Ebersberg art / s / hopping, Munich, Germany, (solo show) 2004 lab 30, Laboratory for Experimental Video and Sound, Kulturhaus abraxas, Augsburg, Germany

Our work enables the Contemporary Art Society to support living artists and build critical knowledge around contemporary art.

She emphasizes the mechanisms that Western society has historically regarded as valid methods for building and accumulating knowledge.

Sophia Bardsley, Deputy Director of the Contemporary Art Society, said: «Our unrivalled relationships with museums, built up over 100 years, ensure that we have developed an in - depth knowledge of museum collections in the UK and how these collections can be enriched and enlivened through gifting new works.

«I am confident that Dagmar's leadership experience in architecture education and in the design and architecture fields will reinforce and build upon the school's emphasis on innovation, professional knowledge, and in finding creative interdisciplinary solutions to challenges in today's changing society,» said Pratt School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan.

The original building (6 — 8 John Adam Street) includes the Great Room, which features a magnificent sequence of paintings by Irish artist James Barry titled The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture and portraits of the Society's first and second presidents, painted by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds respectively.

It aims to stimulate debate and build consensus on this new and challenging terrain, integrating cutting edge knowledge and experience from a wide range of disciplines into a single framework that can be clearly and effectively articulated to endorse urgent action across all sectors of society.

Modern life is built upon the knowledge that the scientific community has gathered and that society — markets, governments, workers — put to use.

Lord Hoffmann, giving the judgment of the board, considered that implication was part of the wider process of construction: referring to his own House of Lords judgment in Investors Compensation Scheme Limited v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 All ER 98, [1998] 1 BCLC 493, he noted that construction involved finding «the meaning which the instrument would convey to a reasonable person having all the background knowledge which would reasonably be available to the audience to whom the instrument is addressed».

The two desired long - term outcomes are: 1) Youth acquire knowledge, build character, and develop life skills in a fun learning environment that enables them to become self - directing, productive members of society, and 2) Youth will develop the skills to become the next generation of scientists and leaders in STEM.

I have plenty of time to build / maintain my boats, snowmobile and trailers, write a novel (not yet completed), act as the media liaison for the fourth year running in support of the upcoming (Feb. 2014) 28th annual Rotary / Carl Oake Swimathon for Rotary Club projects and Easter Seals Society in Peterborough, Ontario, as well as looking after my 88 year - old mother and keeping her house in good repair etc., all with my own hands and background knowledge.