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WSC-SD NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 June 8, 2007WSC-SD : "Ready to Act? Realising Sustainability through Collaboration"Welcome to the Volume 2, Issue 4 of your monthly WSC-SD Newsletter. The WSC-SD Newsletter employs a simple and concise format to keep you updated by means of bringing key information directly to your desktop about WSC-SD events, activities and news from various Student Communities (SCs), Executive Board (EB), "Vision" editors and Web team (WT). I am pleased to be the one to edit the Newsletter this month in behalf of Laura Meredith, Editor-in-Chief from ISSUE3, since she is now in Alaska for her research where the internet access is unreliable and found it hard for her to achieve such a pleasure to edit the one this month. I apologies that I wasn't able to publish this ISSUE4 earlier, but hope we can know more about each other throughout this newsletter and collaborate more in the near future! Thanks to everyone for cooperating in the process of making this ISSUE under such an alteration of editor. Please be noted that we will accept contributions for the next newsletter received by June 25. Marie Onga Editor this month Your email feedback is welcome. Please send feedback to executiveboard＠wscsd.org Whatever your topic of interest is, it's just a click away…enjoy! CONTENTS:1. UPDATE FROM LAUSANNE- UniPoly, EPFL, Switzerland 2. UPDATE FROM TOKYO - University of Tokyo Students Community (UTSC), Japan 3. UPDATE FROM YOUNDE University of Younde I Association pour le Developpement Durable (UYI-ADD), Camerroon 4. UPDATE FROM WSC-SD Executive Board 5. PROPOSAL to have COLLABORATION from the Student Council of The Delft University of Technology 6. Opportunities ; Some Calls for Participants!! 1. UPDATE FROM LAUSANNE- UniPoly, EPFL, SwitzerlandThe yearly "Bike to work" campaign starts again on EPFL campus. Students gather into groups of 4 people and will come to work by bike during the summer season. UniPoly, as usual, is helping distribute flyers, registration and of course, its members actively participate in this campaign. For our continuous project "sustainable tips" (Astuces Durables), UniPoly is contacted by a group from Yverdon. (another town near Lausanne ) It is forseen that our sustainable tips flyers will be distributed in a larger scale. Our new project "Echodurable" (sustainable Echo) holds a successful evening for film projection on the campus of University of Lausanne . The film "The Corporation" attracted around 20 people and discussions were all around. EPFL also held its yearly biggest ball "Balelec" on 25 May. 4 members of UniPoly helped with the recycle of the cups. Vivapoly the yearly school festival is going to be held on 7 June. UniPoly is preparing for our stand on that day. By Dorothy Zhang (di.zhang＠epfl.ch) 2. UPDATE FROM TOKYO - University of Tokyo Students Community (UTSC), JapanⅠ.East Asia Internet-Forum On May19th, new collaboration inside East Asia has started…. Ⅱ.May Festival At the University of Tokyo, the school festival, called May festival has been held on May25th and 26th. Many students have their own exhibitions and performances during this festival every year. The Climate Change Working Group of AGS-UTSC also had a room to show their activities and to make people think more about theses global issues. Many posters were exhibited and also some workshops and lectures were held for the people who visited there, including University students, high school students, and other publics. Ⅲ.NHK Eco-Style-Street(Eco-Park) On June 2nd and 3rd, we joined the Festival called Eco-Style-Street held by NHK (Japanese National Broadcast) as an activity outside the campus. We exhibited posters introducing our student community and activities to various people who visited there, including students, NGOs, and other publics like families. Ⅳ.Other Activities Meeting with a social entrepreneur, Work session held by Sustainability Education Working Group, Active participation to the seminars held by AGS….etc. By Marie Onga ( marie.onga＠wscsd.org ) 3. UPDATE FROM YOUNDE University of Younde I Association pour le Developpement Durable (UYI-ADD),CamerroonSustainability is a new concept for our society and some people don't well understand the right way of this. This is why our association asked to Dr. Jean Tchouankoue (Lecturer at The University of Yaounde I) to speak in our name as the responsibility of this institution. During the discussion, he explained to them, the meaning of Sustainable Development, the aim of sustainability and his positives aspects for our University, our town, country and the world. At the end of this encounter, the General Secretary of the University of Yaounde I, appreciate the initiative of having a group as the UYI-ADD in our University. He also proposed the vulgarization of sustainable development in the University of Yaounde I, by introducing (in few years), this concept in some courses. By Daniel Nguene (nguenefd＠yahoo.fr) 4. UPDATE FROM WSC-SD Executive BoardWe are all working hard to make the best of ourselves, including all the members of WSCSD as always. WSCSD website will soon be updated with newly format and information. We are also having a nice contact with AGS and are hoping to find a suitable international project for WSCSD. Moreover we are in the process of making a formal profile of WSCSD itself which can be used by all of us ,the members, when applying for support or any other kind of things. If you have any ideas to share with us, like the project proposal or any comments and advice to promote WSCSD, please feel free to contact us!!!! You can contact with EB members at executiveboard＠wscsd.org. 5. PROPOSAL to have COLLABORATION from the Student Council of The Delft University of TechnologySubject: We need YOU to speak on our symposium! Dear Students from all over the world, We are a group of students from Delft University of Technology tha , among many other things, works sustainability on our university. Last January we visited the University of Tokyo on a study trip to examine how Japan handles the topic of sustainability. There we met Marie (from AGS-UTSC) and she told us about the WSC-SD and this gave us an idea: This year our University celebrates its 165th birthday by dedicating this year to sustainability, with a focus on Africa . On the 1st and 2nd of November there will be a symposium on sustainability and we would like you to help us give a presentation on this symposium. We would like to do this by means of video conferencing. The idea is that we explain something about Japanese and international cooperation in the field of sustainability based on the findings of our study trip. Then we finish with the AGS and the WSC-SD. We like to ask students from several universities to tell everyone what their university does on sustainability in about 5-10 minutes, thereby demonstrating the use and power of international cooperation and promoting these international networks. After this, the audience can ask questions to the speakers. To do this we need you! If you are interested in this idea you can contact us by e-mailing to info＠aag.tudelft.nl. If you are interested in the symposium you can look at www.lustrum.tudelft.nl. 6. OpportunitiesI. Call for Participants for the Tech Summer Sessions in Barcelona !! The letter from b_TEC; b_TEC is a new Technological Campus focused on Energy and Water placed in Barcelona . Our project is an interuniversitary Campus with UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) and UB (Universitat de Barcelona). In fact you may know about b-TEC because of it's participation at last AGS annual meeting held in Barcelona (18 21 March 2007) in witch b_TEC presented its project. Last year we started an international meeting named Tech Summer Sessions. For three weeks professionals, researchers and students of the sector of Energy and Water could share and update their knowledge. We are pleased to inform you about the Barcelona Tech Summer Sessions Energy and Water. We offer a special price of 200 (course plus location in the city centre) for students coming from abroad. We now send you information about this offer addressed mainly to students and the overall program, including the joint Conference held with the ILP MIT on June 28th and 29th, and the Seminar on Sustainability held on July 11th. Find more about b_TEC and Tech Summer Sessions in www.btec.org/tss07 . Best regards, Ⅱ. Attending 4th World Youth Congress in Canada in 2008 The 4th World Youth Congress is to be held in Quebec City, Canada next year August. It is a large international event with over 600 delegates, aimed at youth involved in development projects associated with sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals. There are online applications for young activists as well as young delegates (observers) and young journalist or performers. All the information and online applications are available on their website - www.wyc2008.qc.ca We are applying for representatives of the WSC-SD to attend to promote the organisation and our activities. YOU can apply individually as well!! Note that the application deadline is October 2007.
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