Science education in Europe: national policies, practices and research

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Mathematics education in Europe : common challenges and national policies

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Exploitation de la bande dessinée La Guerre de la Glace à la Framboise (Bande Dessinée sur une Europe pacifique sans frontières destinée aux jeunes), dans la classe de Français Langue Etrangère : unité didactique. 'Uso del cómic La Guerra del Helado de Frambuesa (Cómic por una Europa pacífica sin fronteras para jóvenes), en la clase de Lengua Francesa : unidad didáctica'.

Se describe una experiencia de uso del cómic La Guerra del Helado de Frambuesa publicado por la Oficina de Publicaciones Oficiales de la Comunidad Europea, en las clases de Francés de segundo ciclo de la ESO. Se diseña una unidad didáctica con los siguientes objetivos: conocer el funcionamiento de la Comunidad Europea, producir textos escritos a partir del contenido del cómic, formar una opinión positiva acerca de la ciudadanía europea y descubrir a los personajes que la han hecho posible. Se describen los contenidos, los ejercicios y los criterios de evaluación propuestos.

La educaci??n intercultural : un reto en el presente de Europa = Intercultural education : a present-day challenge for Europe

Edici??n biling??e en espa??ol e ingl??s

Discover Europe : experiencia de aula para desarrollar la comprensión escrita en inglés a través de Internet.

Se describe la actividad desarrollada en la asignatura de Inglés con alumnos de cuarto de ESO. Sus objetivos son: desarrollar la comprensión escrita a través de material auténtico, aprender datos sobre distintos países europeos, repasar vocabulario y expresiones relativas al tiempo atmosférico de forma contextualizada con ayuda de mapas, fotografías, etc., completar cuestionarios en inglés con datos personales para solicitar folletos a las oficinas de turismo extranjeras, apreciar las posibilidades para el aprendizaje y la práctica del inglés que ofrece Internet y valorar la ayuda que supone el conocimiento de otro idioma para desenvolverse en el mundo actual.

La competencia europe??sta : una competencia integradora

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Tracing the Origin and Spread of Agriculture in Europe

The origins of early farming and its spread to Europe have been the subject of major interest for some time. The main controversy today is over the nature of the Neolithic transition in Europe: the extent to which the spread was, for the most part, indigenous and animated by imitatio (cultural diffusion) or else was driven by an influx of dispersing populations (demic diffusion). We analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of the transition using radiocarbon dates from 735 early Neolithic sites in Europe, the Near East, and Anatolia. We compute great-circle and shortest-path distances from each site to 35 possible agricultural centers of origin—ten are based on early sites in the Middle East and 25 are hypothetical locations set at 58 latitude/longitude intervals. We perform a linear fit of distance versus age (and vice versa) for each center. For certain centers, high correlation coefficients (R . 0.8) are obtained. This implies that a steady rate or speed is a good overall approximation for this historical development. The average rate of the Neolithic spread over Europe is 0.6–1.3 km/y (95% confidence interval). This is consistent with the prediction of demic diffusion(0.6–1.1 km/y). An interpolative map of correlation coefficients, obtained by using shortest-path distances, shows that the origins of agriculture were most likely to have occurred in the northern Levantine/Mesopotamian area

Harmonization of policies and training systems in Europe for urban development – The Experience of LUDA Project

The work developed in LUDA’s project has clearly showed that, in a European economic and cultural diversified frame, crossed by recent and not so recent historical challenging processes, the issues of the urban affairs certainly have different layouts, but, as a matter of fact, we can assume that in their essence they are common to all regions. Identifying a set of common problems is not difficult: the Luda’s; the disadjustment between people and goods mobility, the difficult articulation between space and development sustainability the fragile features of the urban space in its complexity, the responsible social management of current migrations etc.

Implementing Basel III in Europe: disgnosis and avenues for improvement. CEPS Policy Brief No. 275, 27 June 2012

This Policy Brief provides a preliminary diagnosis of the proposed regulatory reforms contained in the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation (CRD IV-CRR), which translate into EU law the Basel III standards adopted by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, and suggests avenues for improvement. The main criticism is that the proposal is not ambitious enough. In some crucial areas, such as the leverage ratio and the long-term liquidity requirements adopted under the Basel III framework, the CRD IV-CRR proposal stops short of making a strict commitment to introduce binding requirements and instead is contented with weaker (and possibly divergent) disclosure requirements.