Strasbourg Meeting?s 2013 : Great Forum for a Greater Europe

UNESCO Club Sorbonne actively supports  Strasbourg Meeting 2013  together with :

–          THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

–          EUROPEAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT FRANCE

–          NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE

–          THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

–          THE FEDERAL AGENCY ON YOUTH AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

–          THE FRENCH-RUSSIAN DIALOGUE

–          THE RUSSIAN FEDERAL AGENCY FOR COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES, COMPATRIOTS  ABROAD AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION

–          ONEEUROPE

–          THE YOUTH TIME INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT

–          SCOUTS OF FRANCE

–          AMBER YMCA RUSSIA

–          GLOBAL PLATFORM DENMARK

 

 

 

WHAT IS THE STRASBOURG MEETINGS – FOCUS RUSSIA?

It is a conference for students and recent graduates that want to enlarge the contact surface between various European countries and Russia. We will visit the Council of Europe, and the European Court of Human Rights, attend lectures by exceptional speakers and work in groups together with youth from other countries of the European continent.  Lectures and workshops are organized into three  directions:

• Business
• Education
• Diplomatic and cross-cultural relations

 

 

MISSION

The Youth Association for a Greater Europe works to empower young people to actively participate in shaping the future societies of the European countries with a less biased view towards other cultures.

 

AIMS

• To increase participation in common projects between young people and youth organizations of the European countries.
• To increase participation from young Russians in European initiatives.
• To promote cultural understanding through education, exchange programs and lifelong learning.

 

 

COME AND JOIN US

 

When: July 29th – August 4th 2013

Where: In the scout base « Le Heissenstein », on the beautiful countryside near Strasbourg

 

 

MAIN SPEAKERS

 

  • His Excellency Alexander Orlov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to France

 

  • Sir Thierry Mariani, deputé of the National Assembly, representing French citizens abroad and co-president of the « Association Dialogue Franco-Russe »

 

  • Aleksandar Protic, Federal Counselor FFC UNESCO, President of UNESCO Club Sorbonne

 

  • Pietro De Matteis, Co-President of the European Federalist Party

 

  • Tiago Ferreira Lopes, Administrator of “State Building and Fragility Monitor” and Executive Officer of the Observatory for Human Security

 

  • Eric Lynn, Developer of cultureQs

 

  • Milena Milicevic, engineering management counselor

 

  • Umesh Mukhi, youth ambassador honorarium


Read more in the description of our forum (see documents).

 

APPLY NOW :  page for participants

 

http://www.greater-europe.com/

Michel Kirch, notre ambassadeur interculturel, expose à l’UNESCO

Ambassadeur Interculturel du Club UNESCO Sorbonne, Michel Kirch expose à l’UNESCO:

Sur invitation de la Présidence de la République française, l’exposition « Transitions » de Michel Kirch se déroulant à l’UNESCO, a été déplacée dans la salle de réception où a eu lieu la remise du prix Houphouët Boigny en présence de
Monsieur le Président de la République et d’une délégation de dix chefs d’Etat.

L’UNESCO a par ailleurs sollicité la prolongation
de l’exposition « Transitions »… de huit jours supplémentaires.
Les personnes qui n’ont pu se rendre à l’exposition pourront y être conviés sur simple demande.

Exposition prolongée jusqu’au mercredi 12 juin 2013
Ouverte les samedi 8 et dimanche 9 juin
UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75015 Paris

Réservation obligatoire

http://www.michelkirch.com/2009/

Ajinkya Sathe : Tesla article

STUDENTS ABOUT TESLA

Medium logo, Tesla Memory Project

Nikola Tesla once said “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”. Trying to understand how influential he was in the world that we live in more than 60 years after his death, I started to think about his contributions. And then I was surprised.

The paper on which this article is printed and the inks that you are reading, are made in automated paper manufacturing processes and dye manufacturing factories. Who made the first “robot”, defined on Google as “A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically”? It was Tesla. Oh is it dark and the ink not bright enough to read this easily? Don’t worry, use a light bulb. Who made the first bulb? Thomas Edison. Oh but he fought with Tesla during the era of the famous “War of the Currents” and did not allow Tesla to use his product, and hence Tesla ended up making a bulb out of his own design which ended up being more efficient than Edison’s. Well, but what about the electricity needed to give in the energy to the bulb to illuminate? Don’t worry. Tesla got that covered too. With his AC (Alternating Current) electric motor, he made the transmission of electric currents over long distances possible. And of course, the previously mentioned industries are functioning because of the same current. And the list of the things influenced by Tesla to a common man, goes on and on. Needless to say, deciding what to write is a problem of plenty and truly a challenging task.

I was first introduced about Tesla through an online comic from The Oatmeal. Myself pursuing engineering, I couldn’t be less shameful to know absolutely nothing about Tesla apart from that magnetic field strength had its unit as Tesla. Yes, it meant that he was important person. Only the likes of Isaac Newton, James Prescott Joule, Lord Kelvin, Michael Faraday, etc. had their names used as SI units. But then the story of the enormity of Tesla was something never told. It was this comic that got me curious to know about Nikola Tesla. Then thanks to the internet, I read more about Tesla and his experiments. Oh by the way, Tesla has his hands dipped in the field of long-distance broadcasting and communication lines too. The first person to achieve successful radio transmission Guglielmo Marconi, applied Tesla’s ideas and published work into constructing the first radio. The more I learnt about Tesla, the more I was spellbound by his genius, and the more I felt ashamed of not knowing about his work despite having a deep interest for science. But then it’s truly said, “better late than never”.

Ajinkya Digambar Sathe

Columbia University, New York

Ajinkya Digambar Sathe