We have many optional tours that should be both exciting and fun. Please book and pay early. The Tours have limited availability and will be confirmed on a first paid basis.
For more information and bookings please see the Conference website.
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The Conference Dinner, with its horse drawn sleigh ride and dinner in the Dischma valley, should provide you with a memorable experience. Not to be missed!
For more information and bookings please see the Conference website.
Accommodation for the 2010 World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
From Keith Nuthall at University World News
A €3.2 billion programme of research spending that will try to pull Europe out of recession and into a sustainable economic recovery has been launched by the European Commission. At a ceremony in Brussels witnessed by more than 800 senior researchers and industrialists, the commission put scientists on notice that millions of research euros would soon start to pour out of three private-public partnerships funding R&D projects across Europe.
They will last until 2013 and will cover three topics:
* Developing innovative manufacturing technologies, materials and processes to produce more while consuming fewer materials, less energy, and producing less waste.
* Creating more energy-efficient buildings, improving new construction design and greening existing buildings through new materials and construction techniques.
* Building greener cars and smarter transport systems, including the electrification of road and urban transport, and research into hybrid technologies. More…
Professor Jonathan Jansen, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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Jonathan Jansen 
is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand and Visiting Fellow at the National Research Foundation. He is a recent Fulbright Scholar to Stanford University (2007-2008), former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria (2001-2007), and Honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Edinburgh. He is a former high school Biology teacher and achieved his undergraduate education at UWC (BSc), his teaching credentials at UNISA (HED, BEd) and his postgraduate education in the USA (MS, Cornell; PhD, Stanford).He serves as Vice-President of the South African Academy of Science and from this vantage point currently leads three major studies on behalf of the Academy, including a inquiry on the role of the South African PhD in the global knowledge economy and another investigation on the future of the Humanities in South Africa. More…