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Join International Student Festival In Trondheim
Applications are now open for the International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway. ISFiT is arranged every other year, and each festival has a theme related to social and political topics with international relevance. This year the event will be dedicated to the theme how to “Trade Your Ideas”. Deadline to apply is November 30th.
Understanding Humans Through Technology
The truth of young generation is that technology is changing every bit of our lives. Historians argue that innovation and technology has impacted humans since the dawn of civilization. But what differentiates this inevitable change is the unprecedented pace in which it has accelerated in the past century.
Eye on Earth | Using Data for Social Impact
What if data was open-sourced? What if data could be used for good? How can we create a better world through sharing knowledge and information? Can data be used for lifting people out of poverty, helping communities prepare for natural disasters or simply enhancing our ability to make day-to-day choices? There are many changemakers, social innovators, designers, technology experts, civil scientists and global citizens all over the world who are asking these questions.
5 Movies That Will Definitely Cheer You Up
They say that seeing somebody else's troubles will make you realise that here and now is not so bad after all. Yes, sometimes there are days that are not the best, but thankfully there are some movies to watch. And not just any. The films below will surely cheer you up when you need a lift. Let‘s get started.
Why The Profession Of Fashion Illustrator Is So Popular? Interview With 6 Young Illustrators
Why is the profession of fashion Illustrator so popular these days? Where can you study this profession? What is the future for a fashion Illustrator? We interviewed six young fashion illustrators from around the world - Gizem Kazancıgil, Sunny Gu, Anna Halarewicz, Stephanie Surtida, Roberto Sánchez, and Juliane Hennes and asked them about six important issues!
Trees And Stones Will Teach You That Which You Can Never Learn From Masters
I like old masters, I like the way they have guided me through life, educating me through their words just as my family, friends, and teachers have done. One more of them, along with da Vinci, is in the back of my head as I write these words, and it's St. Bernard, who said that "you will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters". What is the moral of that for education?
Trees And Stones Will Teach You That Which You Can Never Learn From Masters
I like old masters, I like the way they have guided me through life, educating me through their words just as my family, friends, and teachers have done. One more of them, along with da Vinci, is in the back of my head as I write these words, and it's St. Bernard, who said that "you will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters". What is the moral of that for education?
Test Of Tolerance: A Phantasmagoric Story About A Woman With A Tail
The 51th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary ended. A film called “Zoology” by young director Ivan Tverdovsky (27) obtained a special prize in the main competition. It is a tragi-fantastical story about a lonely, middle-aged woman from a small town in Russia who discovers that she has suddenly grown a tail ...
Four Facebook Pages Promoting Peace In The Middle East
For all the negativity that is propagated on Facebook, there is a lot of beauty, positivity, and voices of hope that are often overlooked on the social media outlet. Personally, my newsfeed is about 60/40 when it comes to positive and negative posts. The positivity outweighs the negativity because over the years I have found people and organizations that want to turn something they find ugly into something beautiful. Their purpose is to be the voice that says that the earth is not a completely and inherently terrible place, and their mission is to highlight the works and progress being done in a specific area of the world: the Middle East.
Global Student Challenge Fly Your Ideas
A European consortium Airbus in partnership with UNESCO has launched the 5th edition of the Airbus Fly Your Ideas global student challenge. Students around the world with a passion for engineering and innovation are invited to apply. This is an opportunity to develop ideas, to address challenges facing the aviation industry and to develop valuable skills for future careers. Deadline to register is August 30th.
Fully Funded European Volunteering Forum In Slovenia: Only 2 Days Left To Apply
The European Volunteering Forum offers young people from all over Europe the opportunity to promote the impact of transnational volunteering, learn from good practices, identify current challenges and develop perspectives for the future. The event will be held in the Slovenian city of Maribor from 10th to 14th of August. Participation is fully funded. Deadline to apply is July 17th.
Flirting With Crowdfunding
“Crowdfunding” is a very popular word. While some may believe this is an easy way to raise money, crowdfunding can actually be a headache: it is a publicly accessible financing strategy, derived from crowdsourcing and micro-financing, to provide individuals with startup cash.
5 Films About Teachers You Would Certainly Want To Have Had
Today we have reviewed five films about teachers everyone would certainly like to have had. Understanding, patient, and sometimes tough - just enough to maintain respect, but in their hearts good fellows, who are not too lazy to go an extra mile, not even afraid to go beyond the borders of their profession to change students for the better and make them more valuable in their future lives.
Basic Income Guarantee – Is The World Ready?
It is well known that half of all global wealth is in the possession of 1% of the world’s population, and that a redistribution of wealth would be more than welcome. A basic income guarantee might provide the universal solution to humankind’s needs by granting people enough money to ensure a decent existence for everyone. Then poverty would be history.
To See The World Through The Window Of Design: The Story About Nonprofit Design...
Design. A concept that is quite often associated with something exclusive, and unapproachable for normal people. Not according to architectural designer Jason Nam, one of the founders of the organization: Design Disco. This non-profit offers a platform for young people who have yet to discover how they can incorporate design in their daily lives. Through workshops, lectures, blog posts, and field trips, high school students are stimulated to see the world through the window of design. Get ready to find out why this initiative was started as well as how to apply the pedagogy of design in your own life.
Discovering The Mystery Of Dreams: Five Books You Must Read
One of the most intriguing questions about humans is – why do we dream? There are many scientific theories about the complex process of dreaming that include explanations about sleep cycles, the meaning of dreams, the content of dreams, and how we can interpret them. The fact that we know so little about this has left room for pseudoscientific clarifications, since there is a lack of reliable evidence, even from the scientific point of view. Most of us have surely (at least once) searched google in order to find meaning in a weird dream. These interpretations are sometimes shallow, or they may include general explanations through some sort of symbolic reckoning (i.e. dreaming about teeth falling out means insecurity). Various religions offer specific dream interpretations, as it is believed that in dreams, man can get the warning signs he needs to prevent catastrophic events from occurring. So, it is believed that in dreams – we can get a hint of what is going to happen in the future. For this weekend’s reading, we have prepared five scientific explanations about dreams, starting with the best known – the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
Youth In The News: 7 Steps To Follow If You Want To Be A...
If you have been waiting for this week’s news report, wait no more. Here are five top youth-related news stories from all around the world. Scroll down and find information, inspiration, and motivation.
How To Set And Implement Your Personal Goals
Everyone has the potential to obtain a goal-oriented personality. All you need to do is to ask yourself, “what is it that I want, and how can I get it?” Whatever goal you have, I believe you can achieve it as long as you set up a system that prioritizes actions that help you to the finish line. Here are a few steps I came up with that have helped me set and implement my own personal goals.
Redesigning Death
Death can be such a morbid thing. We all experience it at some point in our lives and yet, it can be difficult for us to talk about it. It is for this reason that the way we handle death and the rituals surrounding it, have remained relatively untouched over the course of time. However, with new environmental stressors and the increase of technology, there are a number of designers and innovators who are rethinking and redesigning death to be more sustainable, more practical and more beautiful.
Education Youth Video Challenge
The Education Youth Video Challenge invites young people ages 13-30 from all over the world to create a video of 30 seconds. Winning videos will be screened on various MTV and partner platforms, and at the Commission’s report launch this September in New York. In order to apply you should submit your video latest by 30th of June.























