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| Glocalisation (or glocalization) is a portmanteau word of globalization and localization. By definition, the term “glocal” refers to the individual, group, division, unit, organisation, and community which is willing and able to “think globally and act locally.” The term has been used to show the human capacity to bridge scales (local and global) and to help overcome meso-scale, bounded, "little-box" thinking. 'Glocals' is a term often used to describe a new social class: expat managers who travel often and switch homes often, and are therefore both global and local. | |||||||
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Cern Photowalk 2010 - LINAC
One word: awesome! I wish to thank Cern Press Office for the support troughout the day. 48 photographers from all around Europe, 4 locations, 1 hour per location, 3,5 Gb of images, 847 km, 2 hour and a half stuck in traffic at Monte Bianco tunnel. Some numbers from the Cern Photowalk 2010. The best part is getting to know people from “outer” places as usual. Greetings to Nelson Louro Alves, Francois Lagrange, Ilias Bartolini, Guido Giudetti, Find more [IMAGES HERE].
Everyone dealing with shipping knows much about Rotterdam: first transhipment port in Europe, far-looking management, almost ninety km quay length, and so on…
These two days of full immersion anyway gave your correspondent the chance of having an inside look at ‘Planet Rotterdam’: let me say that for someone grown in Genoa (and near its port) it’s a well strange world.
ECT Delta Container Terminal
Sunday night. 11.38 p.m. Last of many check. I decide.
Let’s give it try (something like “try but not submt it for real”…). Press mouse button… “Error.. The minimum project budget to be submitted for a syndicate is € 400.000,00. Your total cost foresight is € 398,000.”
Oh c’mon ! YOU wrote in yor notice € 300.000,00 minimum !
Well… There is plenty of hours in the night laying ahead!
Every private company involved in joining EU programmes (projects implementation consortia) will sooner or later certainly have to deal with the so-called de minimis regulation. In a few words, the money you get as a consortia member are supposed to be sort of state aid which will eventualy lead to distortive effects on competition. EU Public Authorities are allowed to grant economic aid to private companies only within a fixed treshold expressly authorized by the European Commission. If an SME is involved into a project developed under a EU cofinanced program, and would like to have its activity rewarded, it has to deal with state aid legal framework.
In order to facilitate SME’s participation an exception has been added anyway: there is a class of aid for which notification from EU member states to European Commission is not needed; these are aid of minor importance, as defined by the EU de minimis, which are not presumed to affect competition significantly.
Here is a short summary if you’d rather be working than having a Master’s Degree on euro-intricacy:
Hint: aid of no more than € 200.000 granted over a period of three years is not regarded as State aid. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday i was in Milan. It’s been a very interesting day. In my EU-funding-programs-guanxi-development i was in search for cultural heritage contents and tech applications definition and design. First of all i met prof.ssa Silvia Lusuardi Siena, Director of Archeology Dept. of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. We discussed about Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape policies, Paleochristian heritage, EU funds and more…
Then, talking with Paolo Magni and Fabrizio Amarilli of Fondazione Politecnico di Milano we started exploring opportunities in Cultural Heritage enhancement by means of technologies as Augmented Reality and QR Codes. We found that a QR Code is better than a RFID TAG mainly because…
Today i’d like to give a flash about an Artificial Intelligence concept wich is, in my opinion, very Zen.
Say you’re on the top of the hill (or near it), but if you can’t afford it, cope with it, it’s like watching tv on your sofa while a fire is burning down the house.
Well, maybe you are likely to be on the wrong hill!
Think about Steve Jobs’ Commencement address delivered on June 12, 2005.
‘You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life‘
In computer science, hill climbing is a mathematical optimization technique which belongs to the family of local search. It is relatively simple to implement, making it a popular first choice. Although more advanced algorithms may give better results, in some situations hill climbing works just as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Inc.com reports a very interesting post on their company blog.
Here are some of the ways that we have promoted a winning team at Insight and at our clients’ workplaces:
If you need to fly to London Gatwick here are some very useful infos. The best solution in my opinion.
London Victoria Station
Hint. Even if you are a EU citizen always keep your passport with you. It’s quicker and safer.
Here is the first video produced with Apple Final Cut Pro 5.0.1
