New website under construction

As you might know, I am working on a 'real' Agris Mundus Students and Alumni website: www.agrismundusalumni.org
I now finished moving all the students profiles to this new website, please have a look at your profile and let me know if something needs to be changed. The rest of the site is still under construction, but I hope I can finish it soon!!

Scholarship awarded to AM student

Neda TRIFKOVIC from Serbia, who is currently working on her thesis research in Morocco, got awarded with The International Grant for Natural Resource Students from The Union of Natural Resource Students (FN). Neda is a student in the Food chains in development program (Cork/Copenhagen).

Congratulations!!!

More information: http://www.life.ku.dk/Maalgruppe/medarbejdere/life_internt/nyhedsbrev/nyt_navne/2009/474_grants_natural_resource.aspx

Call for papers - International NGO Journal

Dear Colleague,

Introducing ‘International NGO Journal (INGOJ)’
International NGO Journal (INGOJ) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of Non Governmental Organization (NGO) activities.

INGOJ is founded to publish proposals, appraisals and reports of NGO projects. The aim is to have centralized information for NGO activities where stakeholders including beneficiaries of NGO services can find useful information about ongoing projects and where to obtain particular assistance. Also prospective donors will easily find information about different NGOs and decide which to fund on specific projects.

Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website www.academicjournals.org/INGOJ.
Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to ngo@academicjournals.org

Open Access
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. INGOJ is fully committed Open Access Initiative by providing free access to all articles (both abstract and full PDF text) as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal.

Publication Alert
We will be glad to send you a publication alert showing the table of content with link to the various abstracts and full PDF text of articles published in each issue. Kindly send us an email if you will like to receive publication alert.

Best regards, Emeje Cynthia
Editorial AssistantInternational NGO Journal
E-mail: ngo@academicjournals.org http://www.academicjournals.org/INGOJ

EMA Newsletter

12TH EMA NEWSLETTER

Dear EMA members,
A lot of EMA events and activites took place in the last couple of months:the first EMA large-scale thematic conference "Erasmus Mundus Conference -Climate Change and Higher Education" in Budapest was a success; ErasmusMundus Programme Phase 2 was officially launched in Brussels, EMA LiaisonGroup meeting was held in Brussels.
The EMA Regional Chapters also organized social events. EMA develops further and the Call for Representatives of Erasmus Mundus Master Courses is now open. Please read the details under EMA sectionbelow. We thank Jantine Vos from Erasmus Mundus master in Law and Economics for writing about the course in the "One Issue - One Programme" section. Enjoy reading this newsletter issue and we hope that spring is on the way!

EMA

EMA Call for Representatives of Erasmus Mundus Master Courses
Call for expression of interest to apply for the position of “ErasmusMundus Course Representative” at EMA is now open.[more] (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-1)

EU-China Meeting on Graduate Education and Cooperation in Beijing
EMAmembers take part in EU-Asia Higher Education Platform dialogue in China (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-2)

EMA member takes part in the UN Climate Change Conference
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland was held in December 2008. The conference had over 11,600 participants, with a new climatechange deal underway, in the huge and impressive venue. EMA member Marianne de Nazareth reports about the event. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-3)

Emanate and Photo Competition
The second issue of EMA magazine Emanate isout! Please log into the EMA Community to cast your vote in Emanate PhotoCompetition. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-4)

Erasmus Mundus Programme Erasmus Mundus 2: Launch event
Representatives of the European Commission, Executive Agency and national structures, Erasmus Mundus course coordinators and EMA Steering Committee members, as well as other stakeholders gathered on 16-18 of February in Brussels to celebrate the sucess of Erasmus Mundus programme and launch of its new second phase". (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-5)

International Education Events ESN train
The Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is launching an amazing intercultural project ESN-TRAIN that will go through 40 cities inMarch-April 2009. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-6)

Pan-European Youth Think Tank
European Students' Forum AEGEE is organising the First Pan-European Youth Think Tank on Mobility and Energy in Brussels from 19 to 21 of March 2009. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-7)

More than words
University of Kent and Brussels School of International Studies open applications for the Student Conference "More than Words:Global Action in the 21st Century". (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-8)

Viadrina Summer University 2009
European Political Culture in Global Politics is the main topic of the Viadrina Summer University in Frankfurt (Oder). Call for applications is now open. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-9)

Host families in the UK
HOST UK organizes visits of international studentsto host families in the UK. Students can spend weekends or holidays with aBritish host family. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-10)

New Challenges in Food Preservation - Conference in Budapest
In November 2009 Budapest will be the place for leading experts in food industry and academia to meet for 2009 EFFoST Conference "New Challenges in FoodPreservation: Processing - Safety - Sustainability". (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-11)

One Issue One Programme
EMLE EMA members regularly tell us about their Master Courses - this time Jantine Vos shares her impressions of European Masters in Law in Economics. (http://community.em-a.eu/index.php?id=163&rid=f_6453&mid=243&aC=a2f36290&jumpurl=-12

Results of student selection 2009-2011

The results of the first selection of new students for the academic year 2009-2011 are available on the Agris Mundus website: http://www.agrismundus.eu/agris-mundus/news.php?act=detail&novinka_id=57

News from Montpellier

So it is time for some news from Montpellier! At the moment the sun is returning in the South of France, and people are spending more time outside their house again.At the moment we are quite busy here with the last courses and preparations for the thesis research. Most people found a country and organization now and are working on their proposals.

In November we could choose which specialization we wanted to do: ECODEV (public policies, institutions and markets) or agricultural production and development. About half of the group choose ECODEV and joined the French students which are in the second year of SAT (Systèmes Agraires Tropicaux).

Every specialization includes 3 collective internships in the field, ranging from 2 weeks to 3 days. The ECODEV people will finish the courses on the 3rd of april, after a collective internship of 10 days in Senegal (!) I am also studying in ECODEV, and I will write about our experiences in Senegal in april! Because our courses will finish that late, we can also do our thesis defense one month later, so in the end of October. The people in the agricultural production and development specialization will finish courses in a week time.
We often have some nice parties and common meals here, hereby some pictures.

Greetings from the sunny south!!!!

Berdi