Tag Archives: students

Thank you for the SHOW, Rijeka!

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Introducing Mia Maček, one of our copywriters and one of SHOW runners who has just set out these impressions for everyone who attended the SHOW (or regret that they didn’t)… Did you enjoy the SHOW? We are not taking you … Continue reading →

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First Open Access Week in Croatia: SHOW Program Now Ready!

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

For the first time in Croatia, Open Access Week event will be held from October 26 through October 27 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. The schedule for the SHOW (Share/Open Access/Worldwide) is now ready and … Continue reading →

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InTech at the Hartera Festival – A T-Shirt for Your Thought!

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Hartera music festival uses an old paper factory set in Rijeka, Croatia, to turn it into a three-day-mecca for musicians, students, young sculptors, photographers and painters and, this weekend exclusively, for our open access advocates. We have set up a … Continue reading →

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Students, Get Involved! Use, Share and Mash Up This Open Access Flyer!

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

“Students have a crucial role in making Open Access a reality.” Nothing says “spring” like a student’s zeal in demonstrating that he cares. Shortly upon announcing the first European student summit on Open Access, the Right to Research Coalition has … Continue reading →

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First European Student Summit on Open Access

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. (Wilhelm von Humboldt) Right to Research Coalition has announced the first European student summit on Open … Continue reading →

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Sparky Awards 2011 Student Video Contest – Call For Entries

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

2011 call for entries for the 4th annual Sparky Awards has been announced on SPARC media pages. The “Open Up!” video contest is aimed at students who are to present in an imaginative way and in a two-minutes time frame, … Continue reading →

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MIT OCW – Year-End Numbers and a Year-Start Celebration

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

“A revolutionary idea about creating revolutionary ideas,” as president Susan Hockfield describes the MIT project, will now mark its 150th anniversary. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers its teaching materials used in undergraduate and graduate courses available on the web, … Continue reading →

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Gaudeamus Igitur – Post Iucundam Iuventutem, Open Access?

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

“Gaudeamus” – let us rejoice, but when? “Iuvenes dum sumus,” – while we are young. And after a pleasant youth? “Nos habebit humus,” – the soil will have us. Were you ever frightened by that “academia” hymn and the snatching … Continue reading →

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Teaching Everyone, Everywhere

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Nataly Anderson

The idea of an Open University is not a new one – many countries have one or more universities with an “open door” academic policy – that is, there are no entry requirements. In fact, perhaps the first such university … Continue reading →

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Clearing a Path to Education

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Nataly Anderson

A Croatian friend asked me the other day if I knew anything about postgraduate courses being offered by a UK university. He had stumbled upon an ad for Work Based Learning courses being offered by the University of Middlesex. He … Continue reading →

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