Mentoring Programmes as a successful instrument for career development of people with disabilities and disadvantaged

[Excerpt] For many years the Mentoring, as a form of support for young people without work experience, is well-known practice. In the past ten years the Mentoring has proved itself as a wide-applied method of support in the career of people with disabilities. A good example of successfully held Mentoring programme in Europe is the “Equal Employment Opportunities: Mentoring and Training for Disabled People and Employers” Project. It is a transnational initiative supported by the “Leonardo da Vinci” Programme of the European Commission. The project includes 3 European countries: Bulgaria, Greece and the UK. The duration of the project was 24 months

DigitalCommons@ILR Collection Development Policy

DigitalCommons@ILR offers electronic access to unique material that encompasses every aspect of the workplace. The Martin P. Catherwood Library provides this service as part of its ongoing mission to serve as a comprehensive information center in support of the research, instruction, and service commitments of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cornell community

Heavy Metal

Custom perforated steel panels form the envelope. Perforations based on programmatic and climate responses.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bcs/1165/thumbnail.jp

The hunt for submarines in classical art: mappings between scientific invention and artistic interpretation

This is a report to the AHRC's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme. This report stems from a project which aimed to produce a series of mappings between advanced imaging information and communications technologies (ICT) and needs within visual arts research. A secondary aim was to demonstrate the feasibility of a structured approach to establishing such mappings. The project was carried out over 2006, from January to December, by the visual arts centre of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS Visual Arts).1 It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of the Strategy Projects run under the aegis of its ICT in Arts and Humanities Research programme. The programme, which runs from October 2003 until September 2008, aims ‘to develop, promote and monitor the AHRC’s ICT strategy, and to build capacity nation-wide in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research’.2 As part of this, the Strategy Projects were intended to contribute to the programme in two ways: knowledge-gathering projects would inform the programme’s Fundamental Strategic Review of ICT, conducted for the AHRC in the second half of 2006, focusing ‘on critical strategic issues such as e-science and peer-review of digital resources’. Resource-development projects would ‘build tools and resources of broad relevance across the range of the AHRC’s academic subject disciplines’.3 This project fell into the knowledge-gathering strand. The project ran under the leadership of Dr Mike Pringle, Director, AHDS Visual Arts, and the day-to-day management of Polly Christie, Projects Manager, AHDS Visual Arts. The research was carried out by Dr Rupert Shepherd

Columbia World Projects Cybersecurity Forum Report

It is precisely because of the indispensable role the Internet plays in our lives that disruptions to the systems, and networks that undergird them, can rapidly bring so much of what we do to a standstill, undermine our privacy and civil liberties, and even threaten our prosperity and national security. And of course, it is not just systems that are connected to the Internet that are vulnerable to digital attack – so too are standalone systems, networks, and programs. While it is difficult to measure the precise level of exposure in this realm, there is a clear consensus that cybersecurity is one of the most significant and complex challenges facing the world today. To give just a few examples, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence said cybersecurity is one of his “greatest concerns and top priorities.” The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary’s has assessed that cyberweapons and sophisticated hacking pose a greater threat to the United States than the risk of physical attacks. Freedom House concluded that digital disinformation tactics have contributed to a global decline in Internet freedom every year for the last seven years, and played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries from 2016 to 2017 alone. And estimates regarding the global economic impact of cyber attacks range from $400 billion to more than$2 trillion each year. So too is there is a growing recognition that technology solutions alone cannot address the many vulnerabilities and possible vectors of attack, but rather that behavioral, normative, regulatory, social, and other interventions will also be critical to building effective solutions. Yet, despite these high-level warnings and the fact that a fair amount of attention and resources have been devoted in the last several years to cybersecurity, the increasing sophistication of cyber threats continues to outpace progress, as does the number of attacks, particularly in the United States and in Europe. It was with this understanding – that current efforts to address cybersecurity are insufficient – that participants in the Columbia World Projects (CWP) Forum on Cybersecurity began their opening plenary discussion. Approximately 35 experts with a range of different substantive and institutional perspectives shared their views on the nature of the threat, key vulnerabilities, and the particularly intractable challenges associated with addressing them. This discussion provided critical context for the concrete project proposals taken up later in the working groups (Section II), and helped inform the selection of projects meriting further development by CWP (Section III)

The impact of the University of Strathclyde on the economy of Scotland and the City of Glasgow

The interest in the economic impact of higher education has led to the early studies of both Scottish and UK Higher Education being updated and extended. However it is now 12 years since the very first study of Strathclyde University (which arguably set the core policy agenda for subsequent work)10 was undertaken. It is timely to take a fresh look at the University of Strathclyde's impact on Scotland. The current study was undertaken in Spring 2004 and focuses primarily on those aspects of the University of Strathclyde's contribution to the economy that can currently be quantified and measured in conventional economic terms such as output, employment and export earnings. Modelled estimates are made of the economic activity generated in other sectors of the economy, both throughout Scotland and also within the City of Glasgow, through the secondary or 'knock-on' effects of the expenditure of the University, its staff and its students. Overall the study presents an up-to-date and detailed examination of the University of Strathclyde's quantifiable economic contribution to both the City of Glasgow and to Scotland as a whole. The study was conducted by Ursula Kelly and Donald McLellan of the Information Resources Directorate of the University of Strathclyde working with Emeritus Professor Iain McNicoll, who served as Technical Adviser on the study

Inuit Observations on Climate Change

This is an overview of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) project at Sachs Harbour on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, an effort to document the problem of Arctic climate change as experienced by the Inuit living there. There is video commentary by Inuit in which they describe changes in daily life for animals and people at Sachs Harbour: banks caving from permafrost melt, seasonal changes and new types of animals appearing as the old familiar animals disappear, ice dangerously opening up, and most importantly, a new unpredictability added to the usual extreme weather conditions in the Arctic region. The video comes in an abbreviated version, 14 minutes in length, as well as the full version, which is 42 minutes in length. There are reports of IISD trips made during different seasons at Sachs Harbour, a teacher guide for the video, and a report on the climate observations discussed in the IISD: Inuit Observations on Climate Change workshop. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division

Defining and identifying the knowledge economy in Scotland: a regional perspective on a global phenomenon

The development and growth of a knowledge economy has become a key policy aim forgovernments in all advanced economies. This is based on recognition that technologicalchange, the swift growth of global communications, and the ease of mobility of capital across national borders has dramatically changed the patterns of international trade and investment. The economic fate of individual nations is now inseparably integrated into the ebb and flow of the global economy. When companies can quickly move capital to those geographical locations which offer the best return, a country's long term prosperity is now heavily dependent on its abilityto retain the essential factors of production that are least mobile. This has led to apremium being placed on the knowledge and skills embodied in a country's labourforce, as it has become a widely accepted view that a country which possesses a high level of knowledge and skills in its workforce will have a competitive advantage overothers with a lower domestic skill base. Knowledge and skills are thought to be thebasis for the development of a knowledge economy

New Labour, new environment? An analysis of the labour government's policy on climate change and biodiversity loss

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Columbia World Projects First Forum Report on Inequality: Unequal Opportunity

This report is the first in a series of inequality reports to be issued by Columbia World Projects (CWP), summarizing expert discussions held on different aspects of economic inequality, in an effort to identify concrete, implementable ideas for how academics and practitioners might partner to better understand and address the challenge. CWP intends to hold a number of convenings on this subject over the next several years, given the complex and critical nature of the problems associated with inequality in the world today . This first expert discussion or “Forum” on the subject was focused on the relationship between inequality and unequal opportunity. There are certain levels of economic inequality that are so severe that they deprive people not only of a path to greater mobility, but also of a range of basic resources – such as housing, education, labor, and health – that can close off opportunities all people should have, regardless of their level of wealth or income. Such unequal access may begin to limit an individual’s opportunities as early as when she is still in the womb and has the capacity to produce negative outcomes that last a lifetime, or even across generations. Thus, on June 19, 2018, more than 30 experts from government, multilateral institutions, nongovernmental and philanthropic organizations, the private sector, the media, and academia, among other fields, came together to discuss concrete ideas for how to make headway against unacceptable, unequal access, how to scale such solutions more broadly, and how to provide a foundation for shifts in government policy where results are proven. The structure of this report follows the sequence of the Forum itself: It begins by summarizing the main insights on the challenge that emerged in the opening discussion (Section III); then it provides an overview of the project ideas that were discussed when the Forum’s participants broke out into thematic working groups(Section IV); and it concludes with the closing plenary, in which participants expressed their views on which ideas were most promising (Section V)