Biology is the study of living organisms: their structure, function, organization, origin, and evolution. It gave me a year to focus on my skills in bioinformatics and computational biology and to hone my specific research interests before beginning my Ph.D. Through the program, I spent a year splitting my time between learning, teaching, and conducting…
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Democracy is also fun aka. Elections for E.MA student representatives The 3rd week of the E.MA programme was the first experience of the year regarding the promotion of democracy through the elections for student representatives. To begin with, it must be noted that the principles of democracy were threatened by the non-elected ‘Voting Committee’ who,…
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Moot courts as a fundamental training for human rights activists The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation has gathered a selected group of professionals of different disciplines to work towards the defence of human rights and promote democracy all over the world. To implement such an ambitious programme, the moot court plays a…
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When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very…
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Sunday 23 September, at 16.00 at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (Italy), theceremony for the awarding of diplomas for the academic year 2011/2012 and the inauguration of the academic year 2012/2013 of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) took place. Along with the Venice School of Human Rights, the…
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In 1998, the City of Venice generously conceded use of this architectural and historical monument, as the seat of E.MA. In 2002, with the establishment of EIUC, the Monastery became the leading European centre of excellence for human rights and democratisation. The Monastery of San Nicolò has proven to be an ideal site for EIUC…
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What an excellent opportunity to start the E.MA academic year 2012/2013 with two days of Introductory Classes by Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer, EIUC President and E.MA National Director of the Ruhr-University Bochum. The lectures on the topic of Human Rights and Democratisation Challenges give immediately the sense and power of the professional career that this new generation of Masterini…
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