Summer Law School: "Lisbon treaty. Towards a common Europe"

The ELSA Spain Summer Law School (ESLS) on the Lisbon Treaty is an international academic event open to every ELSA member. It will take place in Marbella, in the "Sun Coast" (Costa del Sol), in Southern Spain, from August 11th through the 14th, and we will enjoy lectures on one of the hottest topics in Europe with the participation of prestigious proffesionals.

You will experience fantastic workshops, conferences and fruitful discussions among participants and experts; essay competition with a wonderful prize, a trip to Brussels for the 5 best essays. And, of course, an amazing social programme, full of activities and parties.

Fees:

ELSA members  from favoured countries: 27 € per day

ELSA members from non-favoured countries: 31 € per day

ELS members: 36 € per day

Non ELSA members: 36 €  per day

Non students: 36 € per day 

Registration deadline: 9th July 2010

Contact Information:

Germán Martínez Centeno, VP S&C ELSA Spain, Head of OC, vpsc(at)elsa-spain.org 

 

Websites:

www.elsa-spain.org   

http://www.wix.com/jajorma/ESLS-10

Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar 2010

Applications are now open for Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar, which will be held on August 8th-15th, 2010 at Neuwaldegg Castle in Vienna, Austria.

The Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar is the annual signature conference of the Neuwaldegg Institute. This week-long learning experience is designed to focus the attention of participants from a variety of fields upon key ideas and concepts that are fundamental to every free society. A team of professors with expertise in different aspects of philosophy will present a wide array of issues to stimulate reflection on the key elements of a stable democracy and genuine freedom.

For the last 8 years, every year 70 students from 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe participate in the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe's summer seminar at the Neuwaldegg Institute in Vienna. This year, students, graduate students, and assistant professors from a variety of liberal arts disciplines including psychology, philosophy, politics, business, economics, and law are invited to apply for lectures in Economics, Ethics, Bio-Ethics, Political Philosophy and Metaphysics.

The five course format is as follows:

Economics – Dr. José Piñera

Ethics – Dr. Roger Scruton

Bio-Ethics – Dr. Patrick Derr

Political Philosophy – Dr. Michael Pakaluk

Metaphysics – Fr. Marcel Guarnizo

(with guest lecturer: Mr. Declan Ganley CEO-Rivada Networks)

This year's Summer Seminar provides a unique opportunity to study the fundamental principles ideas and forces that have shaped modern liberal society, its history, identity and challenges. We are especially pleased to welcome Dr. José Piñera, architect of Chile's renowned social security and pension reform, as a lecturer in economics.

Interested persons should register and apply at: http://eicee2.org/e_person_data.php.

Applications are due by July 1st. Please do not forget to apply as well as register. The application form can be found online or can be requested from: hanssem@eicee.org. Applications will be reviewed in the order that they arrive so apply soon.

Neuwaldegg Institute will grant scholarships for selected participants that will cover your lodging, food, books, and the cost of the lectures for the entire week.

Please note that expenses for travel to and from the Neuwaldegg Institute for the seminar are not provided for by the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe or the Neuwaldegg Institute. If accepted, just get there and the rest is covered!

For further details please contact Mark Hanssen at conference@neuwaldegg-institute.org  or hanssenm@eicee.org.

Volcanic Ash

By Rashad Sharif

The cancellation of flights due to volcanic ash during the last two weeks of April had a huge influence on UK travel queries. In particular, flight queries grew by 47% Week on Week (WoW), as consumers used Google to find out the status of their flights. Car hire queries grew by 9% WoW as travellers sought alternative transport methods.

To take a closer look at how travellers responded to the ash cloud, we analysed destination specific queries during the period affected by the ash and compared these with the overall growth of the same queries in the year to date. The chart below shows our findings:

The chart splits the destination types into three groups:

1. Short Haul (City): e.g. Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam etc.

2. Short Haul (Beach): e.g. Spain, Turkey, Portugal etc.

3. Long Haul: e.g. Dubai, New York, Australia etc.

The red columns represent the YoY query growth of each group for the year to date (i.e. volume of queries Jan 10 – Apr 10 vs. volume of queries Jan 09- Apr 09).

The blue columns represent the query growth of the same group of queries, but specifically looking at the last 2 weeks of April which we saw the effects of the ash cloud versus the same two weeks time period last year.

There was clearly a disproportional increase in growth of queries for European cities (74% for the two weeks vs. 25% as an average for the year). This is likely to represent large numbers of tourists stranded in the UK trying to get home.

Long haul queries saw the largest decrease in relative query growth (18% in the two weeks vs. 30% average for the year). Long haul destinations were likely to be less attractive to consumers at this time as the prospect of further disruption to European airspace might make it impossible for them to get back to the UK.

Short haul beach destinations saw smaller decline in relative growth, as consumers have the option of alternative transport methods such as ferry or the channel tunnel, should further disruption to UK airspace occur.

Jim Ellert MBA Scholarships, IMD Business School, Switzerland

IMD, "International Institute for Management Development," Lausanne, Switzerland, offers Jim Ellert MBA Scholarships for successful MBA applicants who can demosntate their financial need. Jim Ellert MBA Scholarships are intended to attract students from Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (including all former Soviet republics), and the South-Eastern Asian Peninsula (Thailand, Myramar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia).

Field of study: Master in Business Administration

Scholarship value/inclusions: CHF 20,000

Eligibility: Accepted candidates who demonstrate strong financial need (with preference given to women). Candidates will also be considered on the basis of merit as per the quality of their admission application. All scholarship applicants must submit an essay on the following topic: ‘Why I would like to do an MBA at IMD’ (maximum 500 words).

Applicants must have been accepted into the IMD MBA program prior to their application.

Scholarship applications are essay based, with winning essays typically including the following features:

* Relevance to the essay title

* Organization and structure

* Fully developed arguments

* Persuasiveness

* Personal element and/or passion

Deadline: The deadline for scholarship applications is 30 September annually.

For further information please go to: http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Jim-Ellert.cfm 

Odesa Summer School on Maritime Law 2010

Summer School on Maritime Law will take place in Odessa, Ukraine, on 20-25 July 2010. This summer school is the first such academic event for ELSA Ukraine which is offered jointly by the ELSA Odessa and Center for International Law and Justice.

Ocean which occupies 71% of the Earth territory plays an important role in the fulfillment of the economic needs of the inhabited nations. Nowadays world’s merchant fleet from within 46 000 vessels operated by 1,5 million seamen which supply with freight in 380 billions of dollars.

As the “sea lawyers” said that in order to be fluent in maritime law you need to forget all that you were taught on the shore because reverse rules are in action.

The participants will learn from leading maritime lawyers and scholars in the field about general issues of maritime law and dispute resolution practices in public and private spheres. Participants receive hands-on insider information about maritime commercial arbitration, adjustments of disputes between ship-owners and seamen. The course will also cover current trends and situation in dispute resolution in the sea law sphere between the states, as the continental shelf disputes as well as the recent practice of the International Court of Justice in the case of Romania vs. Ukraine (Maritime delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine).

Also in the end of the law school a moot court on maritime arbitration will be held among the participants.

Alongside with the strong academic program, a social part will be reach in events, e.g. attendance of Odessa sea port administration, visiting the Opera, BBQ at the countryside and of course resting on the beach on the shore of the Black Sea.

Co-organizer: “Center for International Law and Justice”.

Institutional partner: Odessa National Academy of Law.

Partners: Local law-firms dealing with maritime law issues.

Working language: English

Fees:

ELSA members from favoured countries: 25 € per day

ELSA members from non-favoured countries: 25 € per day

ELS members: 30 € per day

Non ELSA members: 35 € per day

Non students: 35 € per day

The participation fee includes: accomodation, meals, academic materials, diploma.

Registration deadline is June 7th 2010.

Contact Information: Albina Ladynenko, Head of OC, maritimelawschool@gmail.com.

Official web-site: http://www.maritimelawschool.in.ua

Belgrade Summer School 2010

Belgrade Summer School (BSS) is an annual international language school taking place in Belgrade and Serbia. This year it is organised in two sessions, two weeks each,  from 12 July to 8 August 2010 (12-25 July and 26 July-8 August). Belgrade Summer School is an event gathering young people from across the world with the aim of getting them to know Belgrade and Serbia, places of great cultural and historical heritage, as well as enhancing their communicational skills.

BSS is a national event with international participants. Students have the opportunity to improve on their knowledge of a language of their choice through an intensive two-week programme, with the help of lecturers certified by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). Belgrade Summer School offers 10 languages to choose from (Serbian, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Chinese and Arabic), each with two levels of knowledge.

The BSS 2010 programme is divided into two parts: educational and social. The first is comprised of 30-hour language study sessions, whereas the second includes full-day and half-day guided tours of Belgrade and Serbia, which enables participants to get familiar with the culture and history of the country.

The main goals of Belgrade Summer School are as follows:
1. Bringing together young people from abroad who will get to know our country and the locals alike and form long-lasting relationships with other participants.
2. Enabling the members of the Serbian Diaspora to participate in the programme for learning their mother tongue during the summer and deepen their knowledge of Serbian culture, customs and history.
3. Introducing vocational trainings for young people for who the knowledge of foreign languages is a prerequisite for a successful career.
 

The mission of BSS is to enhance international communication through inter-cultural youth exchange in the same fashion as any other summer schools throughout the world, the BSS project is conceived to contribute to the multi-level improvement of its participants: professional, cultural and social.

The registration will be opened until June 15. Please register as soon as possible as the number of places is limited.

Check out the course fees and the rest of details here: http://www.belgradesummer.org/english/index_en.php.

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