- Summer
School in Ecology '96: Sustainable Development and Its Implications (14-27
July, 1996 - 2 weeks))
- Distance
Education in the Carpathian Region (International Workshop, October 1995)
- European
Heritage Campus - Kosice 1995: Preservation and Enhancement Programme for
the Religious Heritage in the East of Slovakia (August, 20 - September
9, 1995)
- Summer
School in Ecology '95: Humans, Water and Technology (August, 20 - September
9, 1995,)
- Writing
Grant Proposals (Training workshop, Kosice, June 1995)
- University
Extension Services (International workshop, Kosice, June 1994)
Date: 14-27 July, 1996 (2
weeks)
Place: Kosice, region of Eastern Slovakia
Organizers:
Centre for Continuing Education, Technical University of Kosice
Association of Carpathian Region Universities
Association for Landscape and Human Ecology, Kosice
Funding: HESP Open Society Fund, CEEPUS Bratislava, TU Kosice
Number of participants:
Students: 25 (Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia)
Presenters: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia
Tuition language: English
Themes
- Sustainability as a function of
humane qualities, auto-ecology
- Sustainability and its ramifications
- Selected questions in sustainable
earth resource- and waste management, cleaner technologies
- Questions of sustainability in
relation to human interaction with the landscape
- Information and sustainability,
GIS systems
Program consisted of:
- Lectures
- Practicals
- Project
- Discussions
- Excursions and field trips - Incineration
and water purification plants Koksov-Baksa, Vojany Thermal Power Plant, Slovak
Magnesite Plants in Jelsava, Cement factory in Turna, Lubenik Magnesite Plant,
Permaculture Association Site in Revuca, Tichy potok area (planned water reservoir
dam site) and culturally oriented excursions to geologically, geographically
and culturally interesting sites (Spis Castle, the Drevenik, reservation,
the Zehra early gothic church, Levoca city, Spisska Kapitula romanesque church
and fortification, the Siva brada mineral springs, the Lacnov valley)
- Cultural events - special concert
of the "Fountains" musical ensemble from Prague (Czech Republic),
etc.
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Date: October 1995
Place: Kosice
Organizers: TU, Local Center of Distance Education in Kosice
Funding: Phare, FDCE, HESP OSF
Number of participants: 40 (Universities from the Carpathian Region,
France, UK, USA)
Main topics:
- Mission of Distance Education
(DE) in international cooperation
- DE and open education to the public,
the role of DE in the process of democratization, DE as a tool for serving
educational needs of minorities in the region
- Methodology and educational technology
of DE
- Application of new telecommunication
technologies in DE
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Date: August, 20 - September
9, 1995 (3 weeks)
Place: Kosice, region of Eastern Slovakia (Spis, Gemer)
Funding: EU, Jan Hus Foundation (Bratislava)
Organizers: TU, ACRU, Institute for Monuments, Archaeological Institute
of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Number of participants: 16 (Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia)
Focus:
- to become acquainted with historical,
cultural and archaeological heritage of the region, problems of religious
cultural heritage preservation
- practical contribution to the
preservation of historical monuments
- raising awareness of the public
in the field of historical monuments preservation
- to promote European spirit of
cooperation promotion of Eastern Slovakia and its cultural heritage abroad
- creation of local network of cooperating
institutions and individuals in the field of cultural heritage
- promotion of the idea of European
Heritage Campuses in Slovakia
The campus consisted of:
- Theoretical part - lectures and
discussions (2 days)
- Excursions to the region of Gemer
and Spis and the field trip to Tichy potok area (2 days)
- Practical works on two working
places: 1) the Church of St.John from Nepomuk in the village Byster, 2) the
Chapel at the Cemetery Rozalia, Kosice.
- Social/sport/cultural activities
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Organizers: Technical University
of Kosice, ACRU
Date: August, 20 - September 9, 1995 (3 weeks)
Place: Kosice, region of Eastern Slovakia (Tichy Potok)
Funding: Action "Austria - Slovak Republic", UNEP
Number of participants (students): 25 (Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland,
Croatia)
Topics:
- Environmental Monitoring and Computer
Data Processing
- Geographical Information Systems
(GIS)
- Geostatistics in Environmental
Studies
- Ecotechnologies
- Revitalization
- Waste Management
- Clean Technologies
- Sustainable Development
- Ecology of Human Interior
- Practical Environmental Policy
Program consisted of:
- Advanced technologies for monitoring,
restoration, protection, design of the environment
- Ecology of human interior - aims
and possibilities
- Practical excursions to nature
(one week in the area of Tichy Potok, region becoming famous with contradictory
projects for water resources management)
- Social/sport/cultural activities
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Training workshop, Kosice,
June 1995
Organizers: ACRU and Technical University of Kosice
Funding: Foundation for Development of the Carpathian Euroregion
Lecturer: Dr. David Daniel, Slovak Academic Information Agency, Bratislava
Topics: Writing projects grant proposals for academic institutions, definition
of mission, goals, needs, objectives, budget.
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International workshop, Kosice,
June 1994
Organizers: Technical University of Kosice, the Institute of EeastWest
Studies.
Participation of experts from the Carpathian region and from universities
in Georgia, USA.
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