Chers étudiants,
Permettez-moi d’attirer votre attention sur une initiative qui se tiendra en janvier à NYUAD, et pour laquelle il serait bon que des étudiants de PSUAD participent. Nous invitons en particulier ceux avec des intérêts sur les thèmes de société (technologie, éducation, santé) à s’inscrire et à proposer un projet. La rencontre se tiendra à Abu Dhabi et réunira des étudiants d’universités du monde entier.
This January 25-27, 2013, we at New York University Abu Dhabi will be hosting the Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference - the first of its kind created by university students, for university students!
Registration is now live at http://tiny.cc/gin2013.
Initially inspired by former World Bank Vice-President Jean Francois Rischard's novel, "High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them," international schools around the world began the process of exposing global issues to middle and high school students, calling on them to push forward solutions thereto. Five years after its inception, NYU Abu Dhabi is taking GIN to a new level by inviting motivated university students from all over the world to Abu Dhabi in the booming United Arab Emirates not only to discuss global issues, but to create a feasible and implementable sustainable action plan under one of five issues relevant to the UAE: Energy, Technology, Education, Health, and Waste Management. There are a maximum of six delegates per university, in order to preserve the diversity and standards of the three-day conference. We hope to attract some of the best and the brightest, ready to innovate with a plan that can and will be implemented within a six-month timeframe after the conference. With students from universities such as Université Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, we will showcase the talent and sheer brainpower that students in the Middle East have to offer the world, and from there the innovation will surely take off. NYU Abu Dhabi hopes to set a precedent through GIN as we establish a conference whose blueprints can be used to inspire other conferences around the world, whether in New York, Shanghai, London, Rio de Janeiro, Manila, or Los Angeles.
For more information please contact
Dr Jacob SCHMUTZ
Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology
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Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
Reem Island
PO BOX 38044
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates
Dir: +971 (0) 2 6569122
Mob.: +971 (0) 56 7121432
Fax: +971 (0) 2 6501197
Mail : jacob.schmutz@psuad.ac.ae
