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Thursday, January 31, 2019
New Book | Modi Doctrine, Science Diplomacy: Changing Dynamics of Foreign Policy of India | by Dr Pawan Sikka
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
PIB: Central Government Announces Hike in Research Fellowship
Ministry of Science & Technology
30-January-2019 19:08 IST
All Research Fellows also Entitled to HRA as per Central Government Norms
With effect from January 1, 2019, Central Government has enhanced the fellowship of PhD students and other research personnel enrolled in any area of science and technology, including Physical and Chemical Sciences, Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Life Sciences, Pharmacy etc.
Congratulating research scholars, Union Science & Technology Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that PhD scholars, working in science and technology, are the most significant contributors to the knowledge base of the country for its industrial competitiveness, academic vibrancy and technology led innovations.Emphasizing on the commitment of the government Dr. Vardhan said that improving the value of Ph.D research cannot be a one-time exercise but requires constant input and efforts which the Government is fully committed to undertake.
The hike in fellowship will directly benefit over 60,000 Research Fellows and also provide a template to the States to consider increase in their fellowship rates. Fellowship of the Junior Research Fellows in the first two years of PhD programme is increased from the current rate of Rs.25,000/- to Rs.31,000/- per month. Similarly, in the remaining tenure of PhD, Senior Research Fellow will get Rs. 35,000/- per month instead of the present Rs.28,000/- per month.
Further, there is substantial 30-35% enhancement in the financial rewards for the scientists involved in the R&D projects as Research Associates. The top bracket of Research Associateship is fixed at Rs.54,000/-. All the research fellows are also entitled to HRA as per Central Government norms.
Government has ensured that this empowering mechanism is uniformly applicable across all the fellowship granting Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Academic and Government R&D Organizations of the country. Science & Technology is a fast moving area in which a dynamic and holistic vision is required to secure the future of the nation.
For the first time, the Government has also recommended a set of strong financial and academic incentives to enhance and recognize the performance of our research fellows. This will be a performance based addition to the fellowship. An Empowered Inter-Ministerial Committee has been constituted to periodically examine all the fellowship matters that have a bearing on enhancing the value, quality and experience of doctoral research, including the quantum of fellowship. One of the recommendations is to involve PhD students in undergraduate teaching and managing research infrastructure during their doctoral research. This will not only widen their scope of training but also enhance their career prospects.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The International Year of the Periodic Table 2019 | Join the celebrations!
CfPs: "Post-Automation? Exploring Democratic Alternatives to Industry 4.0: An International Research Symposium" | SPRU, Brighton, UK, 11-13 September
- analyse subversions of society-technology relations characteristic of post-automation;
- discuss how the idea of post-automation might contribute to future work, sustainable development, and technology politics; and
- map out critical issues in post-automation and develop an agenda for future research and action.
- develop new visions on how post-automation can foster more sustainable and democratic modes of production.
- How can post-automation alter perspectives, understandings and practices in technology-society relations?
- What methods can bring insight, facilitate dialogue, and assist developments in postautomation across the scales of projects, workshops, sectors and societies?
- How is post-automation manifesting in different places and circulating between places, for example across the global North and global South?
- How might social theory in post-automation reframe public debate and move policy beyond reactions to automation, and into proactive alternatives for sustainable technology-society relations?
- How post-automation might help to re-imagine an economy based on commons goods?
- January: Symposium announced and proposals called for
- 20 March: deadline for abstracts and review
- 15 April: people notified if their abstract has been accepted
- 20 July: papers submitted
- 11-13 September: Symposium
- December: revised papers submitted to journal for peer review
Monday, January 28, 2019
UNESCO launch of the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
UNESCO Media Advisory No.2019-06
UNESCO launch of the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
Paris, 28 January—The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements will be launched on 29 January at UNESCO's Headquarters (Room I). Events and activities will be held throughout the year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the organization of the periodic table by Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, one of the fathers of modern chemistry.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, will open the event with Mikhail Kotyukov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Pierre Corvol, President of France's AcadƩmie des Sciences, and Andrey Guryev, CEO of PhosAgro. The event will bring together scientists, representatives of the private sector. It will feature a lecture on the "Periodic Table for Society and the Future" by the Professor Ben Feringa, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
At the launch, UNESCO will present its educational initiative, 1001 Inventions: Journeys from Alchemy to Chemistry. Consisting of educational material and science experiments to help young people improve their understanding of chemistry and its numerous uses, the initiative will be brought to schools around the world during 2019.
Other notable activities organized in the framework of the International Year include a periodic table challenge:
- An online competition to test the knowledge and stimulate the curiosity of secondary education students on the subject
- Women and the Periodic Table of Elements, an international symposium in Murcia (Spain), 11 and 12 February
- The periodic table at 150, symposium at the 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, (Paris, France, 5 to 12 July)
- Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry, in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation), 9 to 13 September
The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019) on 20 December 2017.
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Journalist wishing to cover the event are invited to request accreditation from Djibril KƩbƩ, UNESCO Media Section, +33(0)145681741, d.kebe@unesco.org
More information on the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
Media Contact: AgnĆØs Bardon, UNESCO Media Section, +33(0)145681764, a.bardon@unesco.org
UNESCO, 7, place de Fontenoy, PARIS, NA FRANCE France
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Call for Review Articles "Science Policy for Sustainable Health, Water and Agriculture"
- S&T Policy making: institutional perspective
- Policy for science, science for policy – Indian and International Experience
- Technology-led innovation policies
- R&D ecosystem for innovation led economic development
- Circular economy policies for industries
- Technology forecasting
- Science policy and networking - engaging scientists with policy makers
- The current and future political environments for science
- 10 Big ideas and the role of innovation
- Strengthening linkages between knowledge institutions and industry
- Regulatory framework for science policy
- Science for diplomacy – EU, BRICS, ASEAN, US partnerships
Call for Book Chapters & Essay Competition | Productivity Research Book on "Circular Economy for Productivity & Sustainability"
National Productivity Council (under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India)
Notice No. PA/PW/Advt.-02/2018-19; Date: January 07, 2019
Productivity Research Book
National Productivity Council (NPC) is an apex organization to promote productivity consciousness across all sectors of the economy. Like in the previous years, the NPC will be organizing the observance of 12th February 2019 as Productivity Day and the seven-day period from 12th to 18th February, 2019 as National Productivity Week throughout the country. On the eve of Productivity Week celebration, NPC invites research articles for Productivity Research Book on the following selected theme: "Circular Economy for Productivity & Sustainability"
Last date to receive the article is 31st January 2019.
Who Can Apply?
- A student/scholar who has undertaken meaningful research in the field related to the theme.
- An academician/exert who can propose alternative/implementable solutions related to the theme.
- A professional/practitioner who has demonstrated the use of effective tools and techniques related to the theme with the promise of scale up.
General Instructions to Applicants
All submissions have to be made in MS Word format with Font size 12- and 1.5-line space. Co-authorship is allowed to a maximum of 3 Authors. 3 separate certificates will be provided to each author. Papers must be written solely by the candidate, in English. All submissions must be the original and unpublished works of the author. The contributions shall be evaluated on the basis of originality, innovativeness, clarity and technical correctness. The articles are invited in the following four categories:
1. Long Article: shall be of 5000-8000 words and must engage in comprehensive analysis of the chosen issue.
2. Short Article/Essay: This category of papers must be concise (both in scope and conceptualization) and deal with more specific issue, making an easily discernible, concrete. It should be within 3500 to 5000 words.
3. Case Comment, Legislation Review or Treaty Appraisal: Papers in this category are expected to undertake an original and critical analysis of important judicial decisions (preferably recent), legislations or treaties falling within the broad theme. It should be within 2000 to 3500 words.
4. Commentary, Book Review or Short Notes on Contemporary Developments:
Brief Commentary, Book Review or Short Notes relevant to subject matter of journal are invited, preferably within 1500 to 2000 words (exclusive of footnotes). This category includes critical reviews of recent developments in law or policy, books, articles, or even movies.
5. All articles must be original ideas.
6. The articles received through this competition will become the property of NPC and it will be used for further propagation and dissemination of concept or idea presented to the masses.
Evaluation Criteria
All articles shall be evaluated on factual conclusion, meaningful representation and novelty of the idea.
The applicants of selected Articles/Research Papers shall be invited to the Paper Presentation Conference at Delhi.
The best ten articles will be selected by a Committee of Experts/Jury from the total articles received.
Award of Selection
The best ten awardees shall be felicitated on Special Event organized by NPC.
Award Prize
The best ten awardees shall be awarded the cash prize as stated below:
- 1st Prize : Rs. 20,000/- (one)
- 2nd Prize : Rs. 20,000/- (one)
- 3rd Prize : Rs. 20,000/- (one)
- Consolation Prizes : Rs. 10,000/- (Seven)
All participants including awardees whose articles are received and published shall be provided with a certificate of participation and copy of the published book.
How to Apply: The Individual/Group is requested to submit their Research Paper/Article in the above-mentioned prescribed format to the following address:
Dr. Nitin Aggrawal, Dy. Director – Productivity Awareness, National Productivity Council, 5-6, Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003, Email: nitin.a@npcindia.gov.in, Tel: 011-24607336/335
Article/Research Paper Submission Form
NPC Workshop on Circular Economy, a Force Multiplier for Productivity & Sustainability | 14 February 2019
"Workshop during Productivity Week-2019"
NPC Workshop on "Circular Economy, a Force Multiplier for Productivity & Sustainability"
Date: 14th February, 2019 (10.00 am to 03.40 pm)
Venue: National Productivity Council, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
National Productivity Council (NPC) of India; an autonomous organization under Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India; was founded on 12th February, 1958 with mission to promote productivity for socio economic development of the country. NPC has been organizing observance of its Foundation Day (12 February) as "Productivity Day" and the ensuing week (12 – 18 February) as "Productivity Week" throughout the country. It has been decided to adopt "Circular Economy for Productivity and Sustainability" as the theme of the Productivity Week for year 2019. As part of Productivity Week celebrations, NPC plans to organize a Workshop on "Circular Economy, a Force Multiplier for Productivity and Sustainability" on 14th February, 2019 (10.00 am to 03.40 pm) at NPC Conference Hall, New Delhi. The Theme Paper and Tentative Schedule for workshop are available online. The eminent speakers are going to deliver lectures or make presentations during the workshop. NPC invites you as participant to attend the above mentioned workshop. There is NO participation fee but registration is ESSENTIAL. Please send a line of confirmation to any of following e-mail IDs along with your Name, Academic Qualification, Organization's Name, Years of Experience, E-mail ID and Mobile No.: o.samuel@npcindia.gov.in, sk.jain@npcindia.gov.in. NPC will confirm your participation and it would be NPC's sole discretion to accept your participation. You may contact at 011-24607368/325 for any other related information.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Call for Papers IFLA2019 A&O Open Session | 24-30 August 2019
Dear Colleagues,
The open session of the IFLA Regional Section for Asia and Oceania – RSCAO (organised by the Regional Standing Committee – RSCAO) plans to contribute to this year's WLIC theme of "Libraries: Dialogue for Change", by exploring how libraries have empowered their communities by way of creating trusted space and stimulating dialogue.
Important dates and other details:
1. The deadline for submitting a detailed abstract (500 words) and full author details is Friday 15 February 2019. Selection of papers is based on the abstract. Due to the large number of submissions received, only the successful presenters will be notified by 10th April 2019.
2. Full texts of papers are due on 15 June 2019. Abstracts should be submitted as a 'pdf' file.
3. The committee will evaluate the submitted abstracts against criteria which include: innovative content, topical relevance, regional interest, clarity of exposition, originality, and overall quality.
4. Papers must be original submissions not presented or published elsewhere – (IFLA rule).
5. Papers should not be more than 4,000 words, single spaced in Times New Roman 12 point.
6. Papers and abstracts should be in English.
7. The author(s) should include their full contact details and brief biographical notes.
Further Details: https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/asia-and-oceania-section/ | https://easychair.org/cfp/aoos2019
Takashi
Information Coordinator
IFLA Resional Standing Committee Asia & Oceania (RSCAO)
https://www.ifla.org/standing-committee/26r
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Dr. Takashi Nagatsuka
Professor Emeritus,
Tsurumi University
Email: nagatsuka-t[@]tsurumi-u.ac.jp
ICRIER-IHC Talk "Civil Society Challenges: The Road Ahead" | Dr. Reena Ramachandran | IHC, New Delhi | 21 January
ICRIER-IHC Conversations on Urbanization Series
With best regards,
Dr. Rajat Kathuria Director & Chief Executive ICRIER Core-6A, 4th Floor, India Habitat Centre Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 Tel: 43112400; Fax: 24620180 |
Job Announcement: Vacancies at NRDC India & FITT New Delhi
- Senior Manager – Technology Transfer | Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, New Delhi
- General Manager (Technology Marketing)(UR) | National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi
- Chief (Pers. & Admn.) (UR) | National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi
- Manager (Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer) (UR) | National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi
- Dy. Manager (Pub.) (UR) | National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi
- Scientific Officers/ Asstt. Dev. Engineers ( 3 OBC, 2 UR) | National Research Development Corporation, New Delhi
Monday, January 14, 2019
Call for Abstracts: RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi | In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures
RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
September 18th- 21st , 2019
In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures
Call for Abstracts Now Open!! Last Date- January 20, 2019!
https://rc21delhi2019.com/
The call for individual paper abstracts is now open and will end on January 20, 2019. The list of selected abstracts will be announced on the 20th of February. Panelists submitting to specific sessions will be informed about acceptance or rejection directly by the convenors of the sessions by February 20th.
Please note that streams may include panels. If you would like to submit an abstract for consideration, please contact the stream convener(s).
Please note that we have updated the fee structure for the conference. Click here for the same.
We have updated our email to rc21delhi@gmail.com w.e.f. 2/12/2018. Emails sent to the old email (contact@rc21delhi2019.com) have been received and accounted for. For further communication, please write to us at rc21delhi@gmail.com.
RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
September 18th- 21st , 2019
In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures
Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours. Urban cores expand and intensify in size and height, and we see connectivities, nodes and enclaves involving new technologies, information flows, migrations, time/space compressions and everyday rhythms and experiences that defy known cartographies and categories. Meanwhile, a city's decision makers, planners, politicians, representatives and all other agents who govern urban life face increasing challenges that exceed their tools of measurement and categorizations in unprecedented ways.This surpassing of the gaze and grip of the city can also be seen as a reworking of everyday ontologies, or the properties and relations between concepts that we, as urban scholars, may long have assumed to be easily understood, like 'neighborhoods', 'social networks', 'place', 'urban politics', 'urban movements', 'rural-urban continuum' or more. While these contours impact how we live in and understand cities, most traditional urban concerns and vulnerabilities – social and spatial inequalities, racial and ethnic exclusions, injustices and exploitations in livelihoods, inadequacies of housing, infrastructure, health, security and environment – remain. Practices of technology, design and innovation develop simultaneously which adapt to scale and pressure, for example, sustainable, affordable and resilient building and infrastructure, or ways to manage urban waste. New urban experiences that produce new cultural formations, practices, urban art and aesthetics and modes of being political also emerge.
The conference's location in Delhi – a city that has long exceeded theoretical parameters, material forms, planned or unplanned practices both within and outside its limits – provides an ideal starting point to think through emerging and dominant concerns of addressing the city.
In this conference, our call is to search for perspectives that support these changing theoretical, practical and empirical terrains. We invite discussions that move beyond conventional understandings and encourage an inclusive framing that allow innovative planetary comparisons that are not confined to a North – South divide. We invite proposals on sessions that focus on ways in which city futures are imagined and addressed in scholarship. While we encourage a critical approach to agendas for the future in cities, we are eager to learn about hopeful futures that may be unfolding over urban terrains.Overall, the conference invites proposals that address conventional challenges as well those related to changing scales and technologies of the urban.
Under the three overall sub themes, Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures, alongside our committed focus on urban injustices and dispossessions, we offer the following suggestions as possible topics for submission:
- State, city and governance: How does the logic of the state or practices of governance respond to the changing scales of the urban/the city that is mentioned in the main theme? In what ways is control displaced or redistributed? How do people engage with, modify, manipulate and negotiate the structures of urban control in their everyday life?How does governance and infrastructure regulations provoke practices of housing, water, electricity, transportation that do not follow typical planned developments.
- Networks, communities and capital: Stable durable networks are only part of the picture of sociabilities we know in the urban – how can everyday ways of knowledge transfer, circulation, care and connectivity in and beyond the city be thought of beyond simple forms of capital? How do mobility, residence, dis-locations and trans-local lives affect these?
- Place, belonging, and action: How are understandings of connections between concepts of place, belonging and communities affected by the expansion of urban cores, for example in the cases of extensive suburbia, large urban conglomerations and conurbations, community neighbourhoods and vertical living? How do these influence people's potentials for urban collective action?
- Rights, entitlements and citizenship: How do rights, entitlements and forms of citizenship change, empirically and conceptually, when their connection to other concepts like nation or state becomes challenged? This includes but is not limited to, for example, forms of voice and exit; political economies in urban health,housing regimes and education; global migration and the city;refugees, violence and security.Or, what futures are imagined through the lens of the urban as a focused venue for political expression and change, or as a venue for claims on justice and rights.
- Emerging technologies, exclusions and inclusions: How do we think about and include technology and its manifold applications in urban life, from security regimes to its potential for local connectivity and social action. How does technology enable urban networks, virtual or actual, which do not necessarily follow planned city forms and functions? How can we discuss futures like the "Smart City" idea through the lens of such newer formations, their advantages and their possible critical effects? How do technological changes affect patterns of exclusions, the formation of social categories, or new and persistent inequalities?
- Ecologies, Environments and Encroachments:How does an expanding urban show its impact on concerns of the environment? What kind of issues come to the forefront in city discourses – for example, waste management, air pollution, or environmental degradation. How do these processes produce zones of heightened vulnerability, destabilize existing fragile ecosystems -for example,increasing number of people live with threat of unprecedented floods in urban areas. At the same time, what kind of strategies and innovations are developed in order to respond to thee concerns.
- Persistent problems in a changing world: How do we continue to think about structural forms of exploitation and urban poverty and all those other themes mentioned in the concept note in a global perspective in a politically fragmented world? For instance, how are issues related to housing and segregation developing now? How do we include the everyday and the resilient without romanticizing the grassroots, losing sight of structural inequalities and reactionary movements on the ground?
- Architectures, Aesthetics and Art: How does architectural or artistic thinking at the scale of a neighborhood, a community or a city manifest, expand and negotiate with an aesthetic vision of the city? What is the imagination of the city that can be learned from the proliferation of public art? Or, how does the city become a location for new social movements and other collective expressions in urban art, visual and material cultures?Imaginations of the urban that shed light on nuances of artistic expressions, material cultures and architectural imaginations in and about the city, that think of social and political futures.
- Methodologies and Comparative Theorizations for new forms of urbanity: How can visual and digital methodologies help us improve our understanding of the urban? How do cinematic imaginations or visual methods help in understanding the expanding scales of the urban? What can sociology learn from other disciplines, and what new techniques and methods can we incorporate in urban sociology research in understanding the emerging ontologies? How do new scales of connections, networks outside the usual frameworks of globalities or localities inform comparative theorizations beyond conceptions of size, function, 'importance' or economic scale? What are the ways in which we can go beyond the divisions of North-South? What compels us to do so?
We invite proposals for sessions that focus on the themes outlined in the Concept Note. We encourage a variety of submissions for sessions that will cover a 90-minute slot, which can include Panels, Round Tables, Book Discussions, Author Meets Critics etc. We also invite stream conveners where one or more convener(s) can take on the responsibility of organizing two or three sessions, which can include different formats as above, under a single theme.
Please send submissions by the deadline of 31st October, 2018, to contact@rc21delhi2019.com
For detailed concept notes and guidelines for submitting proposals, go to https://rc21delhi2019.com/index.php/concept-note/
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
IIC-JNU Workshop on IPR | 10 January at SLS
Institution's Innovation Council (IIC), JNU
in collaboration with MHRD-Innovation Council (MIC)
is organizing a workshop on IPR (Intellectual Property Rights)
All the faculty and students of JNU are cordially invited to attend the workshop.
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 03:30 p.m.
Venue: SLS Auditorium JNU
Please register at: https://goo.gl/forms/5X967VuczHVUuULh1
Certificate will be given to all the participants based on their attendance in all the lectures.