We have heard that we lost our dear friend by a fatal traffic accident in Poland on saturday. She was studying at AA London and involved to our network since EASA 2007.

Rest in peace...

Wishing all of you merry X-mas And Happy new Year!!!

check this link: www.dancingsantacard.com

hope u will have fun:))))))))))

Havn't written here for ages.

just want to say that 2009 year I am going to study in Florence. I wonder if anyone from our beautifull easa people live there?

miss u all. LOVE and Kisses

Anuka

1. Invent nothing
2. Mix everything
3. Consult artists
4. Refine simply
5. Take it further
6. Remain enigmatic
7. Embrace the old
8. Separate shell from contents
9. Be bold
10. Learning by numbers

German monumentalistic architects Ortner-Ortner

www.ortner-ortner.de

dear all,

information for a unique experience follows.I have attended 2004 in Switzerland which was great fun and educative experience :)

best, erhan

ps. you can also ask them scholarship than you would have to pay half of participation fee which includes food, accommodation, flights. Besides total number was way cheaper than real numbers and reasonable when I attended.

JAPAN YOUTH ENCOUNTER ON SUSTAINABILITY (YES) 2009

Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan, 25 March - 9 April 2009

Applications Now Open! Deadline: 30 December 2008

Dear students and colleagues,

ETHsustainability, the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Hosei University in Japan are pleased to announce the opening of the application process for the “Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) Japan 2009”.

This two week YES course aims to sensitize participants to the complex issues of sustainable development in a global context, while exploring issues pertinent to Japan and the region, though course work, field trips, workshops, group work, discussions and practical learning experiences, combined with unique social and cultural activities. The unique program builds on 9 years of experience successfully running the Youth Encounter on Sustainability YES program in Switzerland, Costa Rica, Austria, Slovakia, Australia and Kenya. The YES course is a once in a lifetime opportunity for personal and professional development, an outcome reiterated time and time again by alumni from the course. This alumni group is represented by a strong network of 900 individuals from 91 different countries around the world who have gone on to be actively engaged in sustainability initiatives at local and international levels.

A total of 36 places are available for this course, with 24 places reserved for international applicants, and 12 places reserved for Japanese applicants. All participants must have a good working command of English, be between the age of 20 and 30 years, be currently enrolled at a university (either in the final stages of their undergraduate study, or at any level of graduate study). The entire course will be held in English and applications are welcomed from diverse disciplines and nationalities.

More information on the course is available in the brochure attached.



Location: Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan. 



Dates: 25 March - 9 April 2009


All applications must be submitted online.

The link to the online application form is available at: www.sustaina bility.ethz. ch/en/activities /japan.cfm

Deadline for applications are:

30 December 2008 (International Applicants)

14 January 2009 (Japanese Applicants)



Please forward this information to colleagues, universities, organizations and institutions that may be interested.

We appreciate your help to promote this unique learning experience!


Kind Regards,

Michelle Grant

Michelle Grant Project Manager ETHsustainability Center for Sustainability ETH Zurich Bolleystrasse 9 CH-8006 Zurich Switzerland p: +41 44 632 5898 f: +41 44 632 1597 w: www.sustainability. ethz.ch e: michelle.grant@ sl.ethz.ch

SASBE2009 is the 3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environments. The conference will be held in Delft, the Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009. Central theme is "From problem to promise – building smartly in a changing climate". CIB has made available prize money for an international student competition.

Sustainable living – beyond energy neutrality

The challenge is to propose a concept for a living area or single home that produces sustainable energy that equals out energy consumption. This includes energy for mobility, operation of buildings, product and food production, etcetera. We like you to address the following topics:

• Concept of an energy-producing urban environment or solitary house and all its features
• A vision on the different energy sources
• Energy supply, demand, exchange and storage in time and space
• Integration of the latest available technology and ideas on sustainability
• The scale of being self-supporting

The setting is an urban environment with different means of transport (private and public). You may chose to combine urban functions or make a proposal for a mono-functional setting. www.sasbe2009.com/competition.html

The competition’s protocol

In the first phase of the competition you may present your concept on four A4s (or two A3s). The content of this presentation preferably contains:

• A 3D drawing of the total design presenting the spatial quality
• Maps or floor plans
• List of systems, products and materials
• Diagrams of energy flows and the relations to other flows in the system
• Description of the concept over different time-spans (day and night, summer and winter)
• Explanation of the technologies involved, referring to (soon) available technologies

Use a maximum of 500 words; the use of references is highly appreciated. We like to receive your entry digitally and in hardcopy before 28 February 2009:competition@sasbe2009.com

SASBE2009 TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture PO Box 5043 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands

The jury will select five nominees for the second and final stage. Notification on 31 March 2009.

Nominees will be invited to develop their concept into a realistic plan. Further instructions will follow in time. The selected teams will receive a budget for this second phase if one agrees to deliver the final entry before the 15th of May 2009.

At the SASBE2009 conference the five nominated designs will be on display for our international visitors. On the 18th of June the jury chair will announce a winner. The winning design team will get the possibility to present at the conference.

The awards

The five finalists will:

• receive € 150 to prepare their presentation
• have free entrance to SASBE2009
• present their plan at the conference, during the lunch session on Tuesday 16 June
• have their plan presented on two pages in a book presented after the conference

The winner will:

• receive € 2000 prize money
• have their plan presented on four pages in the book
• present their prize-winning plan at the closing session of the conference (18 June)
• be published on www.sasbe2009.com , www.cibworld.nl and www.duurzaamgebouwd.nl, as well as an architecture or sustainability magazine

[Go for it!!! Good luck ;)XXX]

Hi my european friends

Soon, on february 9 th 2009, switzerland will vote about the bilateral personal liberality contracts with the EU (Personenfreizügigkeit). Its about extanding the contracts with ROMANIA and BULGARIA.

We have bilateral contracts with every other country in the European union and now we vote about having this contracts (better oportunities with work, education, travel in switzerland etc...)with romania and bulgaria, but the swiss people have to say yes with more than 50 percent, otherwise it is not gonna happen. Therefore we had the idea of inviting people from romania and bulgaria.

We want to have a symposium in Chur (Graubünden, Switzerland)in english of course. We want to invite people from romania and bulgaria, as i sad: I already have jojo for romania (maybe, if she ll still find time) and i need another one, so i m looking for someone or even Two persons from bulgaria!

the event will take place in the end of january...we will provide you as best as we can, for getting you here!

Symposium: you should introduce your country, so people will know more about romania and bulgaria. it could contain:

politics education work situation economy ect.

peolpe here (NOT ALL) think that bulgaria and romania ar not ready for contracts, but you know, we should proove them WRONG!

Please contact me if you are interested or if you have an idea who could be perfect for such an event: email ymi@gmx.ch

Thank you a lot for reading this and see u somewhere around

yvonne

Dear all,

We need you help about the missing incm minutes. Situation is indicated below.

DAY ONE (complete) introduction quota

DAY TWO (complete)

general easa-issues website documents fees

DAY THREE (complete)

presentation/discussion easa009 Italy (complete) continuation of day two (missing)

DAY FIVE (missing!)

Biding Turkey/UK

Day SIX (missing)

EASA008 Ireland INCM009 Liechtenstein final meeting

IF SOMEBODY HAS NOTES OF DAY FIVE AND SIX, PLEASE SEND TO incm008@gmail.com

best regards, incm organizers

PS. special thanks to Luis that he is helping out to gather everything together.