Founding Visions of the Academia Europaea
A project funded by the AE new initiatives fund and lead by prof.Anne Buttimer (University College Dublin).
Summary
This "new initiative" is a proposal for video-recorded interviews with members of Academia Europaea's founding generation, inviting each one to express the ideas and motivations which inspired the venture. DVD copies of these recordings could then be made available via the AE website so that all members, and particularly Section Chairs, could use them as catalysts for discussions and plans for continued pursuit of the Academy's :Mission. Feedback from such discussions, including specific questions could then be communicated back to the interviewees with invitations for either direct responses to questions or for written autobiographical essays, eventually to form the basis for a "Silver Jubilee Volume" entitled Academia Europaea: Founding Visions (2013). This proposal requests financial support for a pilot phase of the project, i.e., "seed money" to cover 3-5 recordings during 2009. If successful other sources of support would be sought to allow for other interviews to be conducted during the 21st Annual Conference in Naples (24-26 September, 2009). Upon evaluation of this phase, proposals for more substantial financial support to continue this process would be submitted to other Foundations, especially those based in the countries of the "founders".
....more detail here...
Key Dialogue references:
Buttimer, A. and T. Hägerstrand, Invitation to dialogue.Lund, Sweden: DIA Paper No. 1.
Buttimer, A.1983a. The practice of geography. London: Longmans.
Buttimer, A. 1983b. Creativity and context. Lund, Sweden: Lund Studies in Human Geography, Ser. B, No. 50. 168 pp.
Buttimer, A. 1986. Life experience as catalyst for cross disciplinary communication. Lund Sweden. DIA Paper No.3.
Buttimer, A. and T. Hägerstrand, Geographers of Norden. Reflections on career experiences. Lund Sweden, Lund University Press.
Buttimer, A. 1993. Geography and the human spirit. Baltimore:Md The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Buttimer, A. and T. Mels 2006. By Northern Lights. On the making of geography in Sweden. Oxford: Ashgate.
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To view the interviews with individual founding members click on the links below:
Prof David Spearman (IRL): click here for video (Quicktime)
Prof. Sir Arnold Burgen (UK): click here to view the video (Quicktime)
Prof. The Lord Flowers (UK): video; transcribed interview
; photo
Prof. David Magnusson (SWE): click here to view the video; written article
Prof. Dan Brandstrom (SWE): click here to view the video (quicktime)
Prof. Eugen Seibold: written article (
) click here; photo
Prof. Stig Stromholm (SWE): click here to view the video interview (Quicktime)
If you need to install the free quicktime player click here
For more information contact: Anne Buttimer
HOW TO ACCESS THE MEMBERS PAGE: Download the powerpoint slide show 
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PRESS RELEASES 2013
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Earlier press releases:
17 December: AE statement on the role of Social Sciences and Humanties in European Research: download the press release 
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December 2011: The Board announce the launch on 16 December of the new AE-Knowledge Hub-Wroclaw..... see here 
Science Policy:
May 2011: board response to the European Commission Green Paper From Challenges to Opportunities: Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding COM(2011) .....see 
Full documents 
earlier:
MAY 2010 - Board publish a commentary on the European Commission 2020 Strategy..... MORE HERE....
Other
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Journal PUBLICATIONS
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- European Review Supplement 18(S1). 2010. "Diversification of Higher Education and the Academic Profession". Papers from the Hercules symposium, Turin, Italy 2009 Supported by the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo. Edited by Alessandro Cavalli (Pavia) and Ulrich Teichler (Kassel). pdf of contents
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PROJECT INFORMATION
"Founding Visions" and "Invitation to Dialogue" project - see all the the video interviews - CLICK HERE FOR more...
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