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Subject: International Training Program on "INFORMATION": STIMULATE

Date: 2007-11-07 10:11

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION": STIMULATE = Scientific
and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an
Active Training Environment (Edition 8)

 

Announcement

 

 

Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting
from: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/

The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium, for 3
months: October 1 - December 19, 2008.

Language used is English.

Our motto is "Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to
enrich lives"

 

Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2, 3,
KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.

The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".

 

Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information intermediary
in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their skills in
collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing information. This
can be of great benefit to the teaching and research activities going on in
their institute and to the 

further development of their organisation and region.

 

More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information: summarised: "Management in libraries and information
centres"

-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;summarised: "Information and communication 

technology for libraries and information centres"

-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on an
international scale: summarised: "Information retrieval/searching" and

-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: "Information architecture"

 

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability

-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation

-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology

-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques

-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service

-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,.

-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services

-- to retrieve information from the Internet

-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology

 

 

Participation, registration=tuition fee and costs:

 

Grants=scholarships:

 

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12 participants from developing
countries. They are selected by the Steering Committee of the program, by
VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university Council) section for University
Co-operation 

VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a return flight ticket plus a
scholarship to cover the costs of transport from the airport upon arrival to
their room, accommodation, health insurance during the stay in Belgium,
transport in Belgium, and finally transport from their room to the airport.
The detailed forms that are needed to request a grant=scholarship should be
available through the Internet from the WWW site of 

VLIR-UOS. Their site is http://www.vliruos.be/

 

At the time of writing this text, the required forms, one for the request
and one for the recommendation letters could be downloaded primarily from 

http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=380

&direct_to=Scholarships_Programme

and from

http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=322

&direct_to=Downloads

 

Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of January!
Official and formal requests for a grant-scholarship or any other
correspondence about the grants should be sent to VLIR-UOS in Brussels, and
NOT to the organizers/co-ordinators of this specific program.

 

The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and
will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.

 

Normal registration:

 

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a registration=tuition fee that
is small in comparison with similar programs. The costs mentioned do NOT
include air travel, transport in Belgium, meals and accommodation, but do
include transport from the airport upon arrival, welcome reception, health
insurance, printed study materials, study visits, social activities.

-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro

 

For more details, contact pnieuwen@vub.ac.be