European RegionsPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9783839450697-013
C. Wallace
{"title":"Small is Beautiful?","authors":"C. Wallace","doi":"10.1515/9783839450697-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450697-013","url":null,"abstract":"When UNESCO first launched its global microscience project 15 years ago, many countries still took a purely theoretical approach to science teaching, not out of choice but of necessity. They simply could not afford the exorbitant cost of equipping schools and universities with laboratories. The miniature kits proposed by UNESCO offered a low-cost, safe alternative for experimentation. Given their multiple advantages, it was not long before the miniature kits caught on. Cameroon, Tanzania and South Africa have invested massively in them, as have Russia and the UK. Angola, Ethiopia, Namibia, Malaysia, Sudan, The Gambia and the Palestinian Authority have all held workshops to adapt the kits to the national curriculum, while other countries are still at the stage of demonstration workshops. Today, there is a growing demand for UNESCO’s assistance in customizing the miniature kits for national use – nowhere more so than in Africa. [AJCE, 2(1), January 2012: Special Issue]","PeriodicalId":404105,"journal":{"name":"European Regions","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114251974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European RegionsPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839450697-005
Camille Dobler
{"title":"Ambiguous Identities at the Rhine border","authors":"Camille Dobler","doi":"10.14361/9783839450697-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450697-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404105,"journal":{"name":"European Regions","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123306234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European RegionsPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839450697-010
Moritz Neujeffski
{"title":"The EU’s Regional Investments After the Financial Crisis","authors":"Moritz Neujeffski","doi":"10.14361/9783839450697-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450697-010","url":null,"abstract":"Today, the paradigm shift in the use of public funds – away from grants and subsidies, in favour of loans and guarantees –[...] namely the Investment Plan for Europe and its pillars European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH), offer us an historical opportunity to go the extra mile and mobilise more private and public sector funding [...] (EIB 2016)","PeriodicalId":404105,"journal":{"name":"European Regions","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123827646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European RegionsPub Date : 2020-09-04DOI: 10.14361/9783839450697-007
Andreas Rahmatian
{"title":"Scottish Independence","authors":"Andreas Rahmatian","doi":"10.14361/9783839450697-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450697-007","url":null,"abstract":"‘Brexit’, the departure of the UK from the EU, has given the movement for Scottish independence a new boost. However, an analysis of the nationalism that the governing Scottish National Party adopts, a self-styled ‘civic nationalism’, shows several contradictions: a European Scottish nationalism (or European non-nationalist regionalism), an unacknowledged federalism in a centralist – and constitutionally still feudal – country as the UK is, and the absence of any understanding for a need for a modern written constitution to define a possible new and modern independent Scottish state. There also appear some similarities between the Scottish independence referendum of 2014 and the Brexit referendum of 2016: maybe the nationalist Scottish Government did not quite want to win the referendum anyway, just as the proponents of Brexit within the ruling Conservative Party in the UK did not quite want to win the Brexit referendum, either, but only sought political gain in a personal gamble? \u0000 \u0000The following is a perhaps idiosyncratic discussion by a European about Scotland’s drive for – and largely already achieved – autonomy within the UK, with an emphasis on the legal perspective. As this discussion concerns the UK, it cannot be divided from ‘Brexit’. The chapter concerns the development of autonomy of a ‘European’ region within a country that has positioned itself outside Europe as a cultural space.","PeriodicalId":404105,"journal":{"name":"European Regions","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116033650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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