scholarly journals Blue Pencil

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Rafael Antunes
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Online Game ◽  
School Program ◽  
The Press ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
A Site ◽  
Archive Material

This article aims at analyzing and discussing the proposed objectives and outcomes of a transmedia project that was run in partnership with CICANT/Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Portuguese media group Impresa, as part of a European Commission-funded project named CIAKL-Cinema and Industry Alliance for Knowledge and Learning. The Blue Pencil project had as its main objective the development of a transmedia narrative that grouped different platforms and technologies, which included intersections inside the narrative within the genres of entertainment and education. Taking as its central theme the censorship in Portugal during the Estado Novo, the narrative extends into a short fiction film, a documentary, a site with archive material, an online game that challenges writing on freedom of the press, an online store, and a school program, in partnership with the network of school libraries, to launch the debate of censorship in schools.

The EU ECENTRE Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Denis Edgar-Nevill
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Internet Crime ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Considerable Problem ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Eu

Since the EU Cybercrime Convention in 2000 (EU 2001), there has been a clear recognition of the accelerating threats to society posed by those who would exploit computers for crime and the logical progression to cyber-terrorism and cyberwarfare. Since that time the capacity to deal with cybercrime (crimes involving the use of computers) has improved but the problem has grown alarmingly. The European Commission recognises the increasing threat of cybercrime and has committed significant research and development funding in seeking to protect the community from cybercrime and cyberwar. This paper discusses a new European Commission funded project ECENTRE – England's Cybercrime Centre of Excellence Network for Training, Research and Education. On 20th December 2012 the European Commission signed the €0.935million (£760,000) contract for the project. The contract is awarded under the Programme Prevention of and Fight against Internet Crime Targeted Call – ISEC 2011 Action Grants– Project Number HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/INT/4000002226. The author is the Project Manager and Principal Investigator for the project. ECENTRE forms part of a wider European network of centres of excellence to share expertise, promote best practice and provide training opportunities for law enforcement across the EU. The challenges in establishing effecting cooperation and sharing are discussed. The considerable problem of keeping pace with the fast-developing, complex, problem posed by threats to national infrastructure, organisations and individuals is examined; highlighting the role of education as a fundamental weapon in the fight. The more we know about a threat (real or potential) – the better protected against it we become.

Competing Visions of Empire in the Colonial Built Environment: Sir Bradford Leslie and the Building of New Delhi

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Resources ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The Press ◽  
Human Material ◽  
New City ◽  
The Government ◽  
A Site ◽  
Building Project

In 1911, the Government of India transferred the imperial seat of government from Calcutta to Delhi. The decision initiated an ambitious colonial building project that consumed massive human, material, and financial resources for the next two decades. The new city was meant to be not just a site of government but also a symbol of a new direction in British rule. As such, the transfer and building of a new capital caused tremendous debate in parliament, in the press, and in the worlds of art and finance. This paper examines one of these debates: the precise location of the new capital in the Delhi area. When news reached London that the Government of India planned to build the new capital in a largely rural area with little connection to Delhi's existing European community, Sir Bradford Leslie, an eminent railway engineer with long experience in India, prepared a town plan that placed the capital back within Delhi's European civil lines. His plan, the controversy it created, and its eventual rejection by the Government of India highlighted arguments over the meaning of British rule in India and who should benefit from it.

scholarly journals “Fallen Angels” under European Union’s migration gesture

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Plessia
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Press ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
State Of Affairs

According to the European Commission, from January 2020 till now, there have been new 8636 asylum requests to Greece. In the meanwhile, the living conditions of refugees and migrants in the overcrowded camps and hotspots, have attracted the attention of the press once again, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.After her visit at the Greek, and thus European, borders, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen was alarmed by the current situation of thousands unaccompanied minors and asked Commissioner Ylva Johansson to ensure their protection. (European Commission, 2020).This policy brief outlines the parameters of all International and European judiciary background, which protects children under refugee or migrant status. Moreover, referring to recent quantitative data, it analyses the current state of affairs, as well as the problems children face as residents in current camps and hotspots in Greece. Thus, taking all these into account it suggests briefly the following possible measures:The creation of a minors’ allocation platform for all EU countries.Public awareness-raising, through media campaigning at a European level.The adoption of the Proposal for a new Asylum Procedures Regulation 2013/32/EU.The facilitation of mutual trust and cooperation between national authorities, in order to proceed quickly with the relocation of unaccompanied minors and the raising of funds for that purpose.The increase of juvenile prosecutors per child.The application of safety measures in camps and hotspots, in order to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.The establishment of external consultancy methods for NGOs in order to monitor the use of EU funds in accordance with childrens’ needs.

scholarly journals Understanding the Role of Device Level Interoperability in Promoting Health - Lessons Learned from the SmartPersonalHealth Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 87-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Stroetmann ◽  
R. Thiel ◽  
K. A. Stroetmann ◽  
M. Romao ◽  
M. Strubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Imaging Informatics ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Patient Representatives ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Funded Project

SummaryTo summarize lessons learned from the European Commission (EC) co-funded project SmartPersonalHealth, a project to promote a greater understanding of the value of interoperability among Personal Health Systems (PHS) and between them and other eHealth systems, in the landscape of continuity of care and across multi-cultural environments in Europe.Key concepts in PHS interoperability, challenges, barriers and benefits were discussed with stakeholders (policy makers, regulators, procurers, healthcare providers, health professionals, patient representatives, industry, researchers) in three consultation workshops and a final conference. The results were synthesized in final report to the European Commission.The survey and analysis presented, which are designed to set the scene on the key requirements of device level interoperability within a context of using sensors, signals and imaging informatics in healthcare, set out key interoperability standards for PHS as provided for in the Continua Health Alliance Guidelines and explores further the need for wider organisational and regulatory aspects of interoperability.Achieving interoperability of eHealth systems is a complex process involving various actors and challenges far beyond technical and standardisation issues. For harnessing the key benefits of PHS, any interoperability scenario needs to account for value-based business cases for all stakeholders involved. It must foresee to enable seamless and consistent data and information flows by integrating and mixing devices used by patients/consumers at home, for remote monitoring, for home hospitalisation and/or within the hospital.

Acceptability of Transport Pricing Measures Among Public and Professionals in Europe

2003 ◽  
Vol 1839 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Link ◽  
John Polak
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Road ◽  
Factors Influencing

Transport pricing has been an actively debated topic in the European Union for a number of years. This debate has been stimulated both by the European Commission policy and by a multitude of national policy initiatives. A central theme in this debate is the issue of the public and (linked to this) political acceptability of pricing measures. Indeed, concerns about acceptability now constitute the most significant single barrier to implementation, especially in the road transport sector. The results of recent research undertaken on behalf of the European Commission into the acceptability of different transport pricing measures to professionals and citizens and the factors influencing their acceptability are reported.

Scotland's Newspapers, the French Revolution and Domestic Radicalism (c.1789–1794)

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Harris
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
The Press ◽  
A Site ◽  
The French Revolution

This paper examines responses in the Scottish newspaper press to the French Revolution and the associated rise of domestic radicalism. The development of the press in Scotland still awaits its modern historian, and this paper furnishes a picture of it in a crucial phase in its growth. However, the main emphasis is on how Scotland's newspapers ‘represented’ the French Revolution as its character changed between 1789 and the advent of the Terror. In 1793–4, the Scottish press provided powerful support to the anti-reformcause, but this could not have been easily anticipated as late as the middle of 1792. A further aim of the paper is to establish the distinctive importance of the newspaper as a site of idealogical and political struggle in Scotland in the 1970s.

The Sporting Press

2020 ◽  
pp. 280-297
Author(s):  
Stephen Tate
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
The Press ◽  
Sports Coverage

A central theme in this chapter is the consistent growth of sports coverage in all sections of the press throughout the twentieth century. In addition, the longevity and ubiquity of the Saturday night sports special editions in the regional evening press, featuring final scores and reports of the day’s play, especially in football, is examined. So too is the search for novelty and variety, epitomised by the recruitment of sporting stars, both active and retired, to fill the role of player-reporter, or sportsman-journalist, offering hoped-for expertise and credibility. The career of Fleet Street sports journalist Trevor Wignall is highlighted in an attempt to record and analyse the rise of newspaper sports columnists – writers with a brief to go off-diary and range far and wide in their musings and comments, with expectation of candour, insight, criticism and controversy in equal measure.

scholarly journals FTS improvements for LHC Run-3 and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 04016
Author(s):  
Edward Karavakis ◽  
Andrea Manzi ◽  
Maria Arsuaga Rios ◽  
Oliver Keeble ◽  
Carles Garcia Cabot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Third Party ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Service Scalability

The File Transfer Service (FTS) developed at CERN and in production since 2014, has become a fundamental component for the LHC experiments and is tightly integrated with experiment frameworks. Starting from the beginning of 2018 with the participation to the European Commission funded project eXtreme Data Cloud (XDC) and the activities carried out in the context of the WLCG DOMA TPC and QoS working groups, a series of new developments and improvements have been planned and performed taking also into account the requirements from the experiments in preparation for the LHC Run-3. This paper provides a detailed overview of these developments; more specifically, the integration with OpenID Connect (OIDC), the QoS integration, the service scalability enhancements, the support for XRootD and HTTP Third Party Copy (TPC) transfers along with the integration with the new CERN Tape Archive (CTA) system.

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