Ekaterina Kuznetsova

It may not be very obvious at first glance, but birds do have ways of expressing themselves and getting into horseplay that would make you laugh. Let's forget about the superstition of 20th January being the most depressing day of the year and look these funny creatures.

The Young Leaders’ Forum is an international meeting of young motivated professionals between the ages of 24-38 coming from the EU 28, CE region, V4 countries, and Western Balkans, who are active in the field of innovation. The deadline is on 26 January 2020.

Systems, political systems - and nobody to reach behind the wall. Perhaps all of you once had to battle with some system, a set of ridiculous rules... The movies chosen for this week are way beyond that - their main characters have to undergo a journey to the unknown with uncertain results.

In this week’s news, we speak about Australian university’s issues with bushfire, a new Chinese university campus in Hungary and student protests in Chile.

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme cultivates the leaders of tomorrow by providing outstanding university graduates and professionals from developing and emerging economies with the opportunity to pursue fully-funded graduate studies at the University of Oxford, combined with a comprehensive programme of leadership development, long-term mentoring and networking. To locate the January deadline for your chosen courses, please consult the relevant course pages.