ISS news

Urgent request for your help from ISS Rector

These are challenging times for many organizations. This also applies to ISS. Financial cuts are being made everywhere and will affect our next generation of students. The NFP grants, of which many of you were once a recipient, have been frozen. There are likely to be far few...er fellowships available for the September 2011 intake of students than we will need. Lack of finance should not prevent able candidates from coming to ISS. We are turning to you as alumni for help/ideas as to how we might be able to generate some additional fellowships to support this group. If you can help to ensure that the next cohort of ISS students can access the training they need, please get in touch. Be as specific as possible. Are there organizations, individuals, companies in your country or networks with whom you could link us in our pursuit of funds for fellowships? Time is short and the need is urgent. We are counting on you to help us to continue to remain accessible to those individuals who make ISS such a rich knowledge community. Please reply via Facebook or an email to me (rector@remove-this.iss.nl). Many thanks in advance for all your suggestions. Leo de Haan, Rector ISS.

International Day at ISS

A vibrant and colourful day at ISS: students have presented their countries and regions with stalls, food and performances. Check Martin Blok's pictures here: http://jalbum.net/browse/user/album/819920/

New Diploma programme on Migration

Are you working (or do you know others working) in the field of migration in governments, NGOs, donor organizations, international organizations like UNHCR or IOM, or in universities?
You may be interested in the brand new diploma programme at ISS: Migration and Human security
This programme will run for the first time from 13 April to 24 June 2011.
ISS staff involved: Thanh Dam Truong, Jeff Handmaker, Des Gasper, Mansoob Murshed, Helen Hintjens, Sylvia Bergh

Please check out more details and the flyer text at http://www.iss.nl/Diploma-Programmes/Migration-and-Human-Security-MHS

New open access journals

Two new open access journals can be reached through the ISS website:

• Brazilian Admistration Review, see: http://www.iss.nl/Library/News/Brazilian-Administration-Review-BAR
• Digital Development Debates, see: http://www.iss.nl/Library/News/Digital-Development-Debates

Your Research Paper online?

Did you graduate in 2008 or 2009? If so, your Research Paper (RP) is available through
http://opc-prd.ubib.eur.nl:8080/DB=3/LNG=EN/CMD?ACT=SRCH&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=KEY+%3D+!!p%3F
In case you have specific objections to this, please let us know by sending an email to njsmit@remove-this.iss.nl.
ISS would like to publish the Research Papers written before 2008 as well. To do that we need your explicit approval. If you are happy for us to publish your Research Paper online through the ISS website, please let us know through this link: https://extensionform.dabbledb.com/page/mapapersonline/ZIVXpafj In return ISS will be happy to send you the PDF file of your Research Paper (this may take a couple of weeks).

It may be that some alumni have been approached by publishers (specifically one called Lambert Publishing) who wish to publish your RP. We have noticed that there is an ongoing discussion on internet whether these large scale emails from Lambert Publishing are a scam or not. As long as those discussions are ongoing, and especially as long as LAP asks for your bank account number (apparently, to pay your royalties) we would advise you to be reluctant in accepting this specific publishing offer. You may prefer to advertise electronic access to your work through EUR, or invest energy in publishing your thesis with a renowned publisher.

Recent refresher course

ISS staffmembers Freek Schiphorst and Karin Astrid Siegman conducted a refresher course on the theme of globalization and labour in Sri Lanka in September 201. Read the webblog on the course.

Latest DevISSues now online

http://www.iss.nl/DevISSues
http://www.facebook.com/devissues#!/devissues

Opening MA programme 2010/2011

The 2010/11 MA programme opened on 9 September. A total of 180 students have enrolled in the MA programme, representing 55 countries. The average age is 31 and 57 per cent are women. India has the highest number of participants this year with 18 students.

Staff news

Several new staff have joined ISS over the past few months. We are very happy to welcome:

• Silke Heumann as lecturer in the field of Women Gender and Development
• Kristen Cheney is our new senior lecturer Children and Youth Studies
• Susan Newman as lecturer International Economics/Macroeconomics
• Luca Tasciotti, Post-Doctoral Researcher
• Diederik Meijering as senior Project Administrator

Departing staff include

• Gerrit Plugge – Head Internal Services who has retired after 40 years at ISS
• Jan van Heemst – Senior lecturer in Development Economics

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Alumni News and Careers

Giang Thanh Long from Vietnam (MA Governance, Democratisation and Public Policy , 2003/2004) has just been promoted to Deputy Director of the Vietnam-Netherlands Center for Development Economics and Public Policy (CDEPP) (previously Master's program in Development Economics) at the National Economics University NEU) in Hanoi.

ISS alumna Gabriela Guerrero Serdan (ECD, 200/2001) now works with UNICEF in Kazakhstan. Since she graduated she has worked in several position for UN organizations and for the past years she was also teaching assistant of the Royal Holloway College at the University of London (UK).

David T.K. Wong (Diploma, 1992-93) has recently published a novel entitled "The Embrace of Harlots". Although the new book is a novel, it levels criticisms at globalization and the way some developing countries are still blindly following the fracturing economic models followed by the West.

The book is available through the publisher, Marshall Cavendish in Singapore.

Alumni meetings and networks

Upcoming meetings

Brasilia

The date that's set for the alumni gathering in Brasilia, with ISS' Dr. Lee Pegler, is 14 December 2010 (evening programme). More information on this meeting will follow (but please register if you wish through alumni@remove-this.iss.nl).

Kathmandu, Nepal

An informal ISS alumni gathering will be held on Friday 7 January 2011 in Kathmandu. Mr. Michel Wesseling, Head of Library and IT Services (OLITS) of ISS, will host this meeting.
Below you will find further details of the meeting. We hope that many alumni from Kathmandu (or from other places in and near Nepal) will be able to participate. This gathering will be a good opportunity to meet with old and new friends!
Date: Friday, 7 January 2011
Time: 18.00 - 21.00 hrs
Venue: Summit Hotel, Jwagal, Kathmandu

For registration, please send an email to Amy Gammon of the ISS Alumni Office.
ISS is unfortunately not able to cover costs of travelling/accommodation but the costs for the evening are ours of course.

Holland Alumni Network in Brazil

Nuffic NESO, the formal representation of the Dutch higher education abroad, has started the Holland Alumni Network (HAN) in Brazil for those brazilians who have participated in higher education in the Netherlands ('hogescholen' or universities). Activities of the HAN Brazil include social events, lectures and seminars, refresher courses, news about The Netherlands and its business community. For more information, please check http://www.hanbrazil.org

Meet NESO Alumni Officers

Nuffic Neso Offices are Nuffic Netherlands Education Support Offices, the overseas offices of the Nuffic. Their main tasks are the generic promotion of Dutch higher education and the enhancement of cooperation between higher education institutions in the Netherlands and institutions in the Neso regions. One of the Neso's core activities are Holland alumni activities. In order to coordinate the alumni activities as much as possible each Neso office has an alumni officer. Please find below the contact details of the alumni officers of the different Neso offices:

NESO BRAZIL
Gustavo Leite
gleite@remove-this.nesobrazil.org
www.nesobrazil.org

NESO CHINA
Selano Li
selanoli@remove-this.nesochina.org
www.nesochina.org

NESO INDIA
Amita Patel
amita.patel@remove-this.nbsoabad.org.in
www.nesoindia.org
NESO INDONESIA
Stephen Widjaja
stephen.widjaja@nesoindonesia.or.id
www.nesoindonesia.or.id
NESO KOREA
Yoojung (Adriana) Jung
adriana@remove-this.nesokorea.org
www.nesokorea.org

NESO MEXICO
Adriana Gutierrez
agutierrez@remove-this.nesomexico.org
www.nesomexico.org

NESO RUSSIA
Olga Zabotina
ozabotina@remove-this.nesorussia.org
www.nesorussia.org

NESO TAIWAN
www.neso-taipei.org.tw

NESO THAILAND
Pornchalitda Dahlan
pdahlan@remove-this.nesothailand.org
www.nesothailand.org

NESO VIETNAM
Nguyen Tran Cam Linh
linh.n@remove-this.nesovietnam.org
www.nesovietnam.org

PhD Alumni chapter NANC China

The Netherlands Alumni Network China (NANC) has just established an NANC PhD Alumni Chapter. The aim of this chapter is to maintain and expand a special PhD alumni network in China and to improve the communication amongst these alumni themselves and with their host institutions.

The NANC PhD alumni chapter is meant to serve as a platform to provide the means and opportunities for PhD alumni/candidates to develop their professional as well as academic interests, and thereby ultimately improve Sino-Dutch cooperation on scientific research and social development.

Chinese individuals who have obtained a PhD degree from the Netherlands and who are residing in China; besides, other people (both Chinese and foreign origins, like the Dutch) who have conducted an academic research in a Dutch higher education institution or a research organization in the Netherlands are also very welcome to join this alumni chapter and become a member.

For more information, please check the website (http://nanc.nesochina.org) or contact Selano Li, the alumni officer at nanc@remove-this.nesochina.org

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Other news

Award for Dissertation

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Dissertation Award recognizes students of extraordinary potential who are writing graduate-level dissertations on topics related to the United Nations system.

Eligible candidates may be citizens of any country and must be at the dissertation-writing stage of a Ph.D., J.S.D. or LL.M. level and engaged in the writing stage of their program.
The Award is in the amount of $1,000 US.
Deadline is 28 February 2011
More info through http://www.acuns.org/programsan/dissertati

Business plan competition for women entrepreneurs in Africa

The Women in Business Challenge, a business plan competition to support women entrepreneurs in the development of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, is organized by BiD Network and made possible by its partners ING, ICCO, Plan Nederland and UnitedSuccess. This competition has just started in its second edition. The first release, which was very successful, ran from October 2009 till January 2010, when five finalists were chosen from among over 200 business proposals.

Participants profile

Women, anywhere in Africa, who want to start or grow an existing small and medium sized enterprise (SME). They seek finance in the range of US$ 10,000 and US$ 1 million. They either already have a full business plan or need help in developing their business plan. They have the ambition to grow the business in sales and numbers of employees. Plans will be accepted only in English.

Prizes

This Challenge brings two prizes. For the five finalists a business trip to The Netherlands for trainings, B2B and investor meetings. For the absolute winner, tailor made advisory services worth €5,000 from UnitedSucces, the worldwide network for business women owners
All participants will receive feedback to improve their plan and may require for a coach to assist them in the writing of their business plan.
Whether or not a participant becomes a finalist, all high quality business plans are eligible for the BiD Network Investor Matchmaking Services.

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony will be hosted by Plan Nederland in the in the framework of the Because I am a Girl-campaign, in the summer of 2011.
For more information, please go to www.bidnetwork.org/women

StuNed Refresher Courses Indonesia

Since 2009 StuNned has run the StuNed Refresher Course (RC). This Refresher Course is targeted at alumni who have studied in a Dutch higher education institution sponsored by any of Dutch scholarship programmes, particularly StuNed. The main objective of the programme is to up-date the knowledge and competence of alumni in their fields through a 2-week training in Indonesia by inviting trainers from the Netherlands. StuNed scholarship covers all expenses of the course both for the participants and the trainers.

If a StuNed alumnus or the organisation where s/he is working would like to have a certain training which is still within the StuNed criteria, they may apply by submitting the request to Neso Indonesia. In other words, the need or request of training should come from alumni or the institution where alumni work so that their competence can be enhanced.

The alumni must have worked in Indonesia at least two years after completing their study in the Netherlands.

How to apply?

We welcome any request for a refresher course from our alumni and/or their institutions. It should be demand-driven. The requested course should be relevant to the embassy’s MASP (Multi-annual Strategic Plan) which are good governance, economic governance and environmental governance. All requests will be assessed by Neso and the embassy. Any approved request will be followed up by Neso by contacting the relevant provider in the Netherlands. The maximum budget for each RC is EUR 55,000.

Neso and the Embassy will prioritise requests that are coming from the Embassy’s partners. The list of the partners can be obtained from our website (www.nesoindonesia.or.id).

For more information

Should you have any further questions with regards to StuNed Refresher Course, please contact Ungki Aldar (Scholarships Department)
ungki.aldar@remove-this.nesoindonesia.or.id or 021-5290 2172 ext.221.

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Doctoral defences

Ms Piyanit Onoparatvibool, Thailand defended her thesis entitled "Competitive Challenges and Cluster Responses. Orchids, Cars and Electronics in East and Southeast Asia" on 29 September 2010. Her promotors were Professor Bert Helmsing and Professor Peter Knorringa.

On 2 November 2010 Mr Francisco Inacio Alar from Mozambique defended his thesis entitled "Performance Management of the Police in the Context of Public Sector Reform in Mozambique". The Co-promotor was Dr Joop de Wit.

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New ISS publications

You can also subscribe to ISS' free email notification service for the ISS Working Paper Series. Just supply your email address and you will receive a message each time a new issue is published, including the abstract and the link to the online version.

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