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EditorialIN THIS ISSUE….

Editorial………………………………………… 1

eCLAU Online Forum…………….. 1

EU Driver’s License……………….. 2 Climate change and the environment are

in the front news row, not only in the European Union but worldwide. Climate change affects each and every person and the actions and daily lives of each and every person have an immediate effect on climate change. It was noted that as many as nine out of ten disasters that take place have to do with the climate. Such figures are disturbing.

Calendar of Events………………… 2

Winning Young Scientists Announced in Paris………….......

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Top 10 CEOs who Never Went to College……………………...

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Seniors in Action……………......... 4

Useful Links……………………………….. 4 As a result, United Nations have launched a campaign known as “Seal the Deal” in order to motivate and create a feeling of encouragement in individuals globally to sign a petition for a fair climate agreement to be presented in December, where governments will get together in Denmark to discuss the issue of climate change and try to find away around the problem, by promoting green practices and a green economy.

Cooperating Institutions……… 5

eCLAU Online Forum

Don’t forget to logon to the eCLAU Online Forum, materialised in the context of the Youth in Action European Programme. The theme of the October Forum will be Air Pollution. You can offer your ideas, feedback, opinions and suggestions concerning the topic and the needs of your countries or problems in terms of Air Pollution. Visit the eCLAU website, register and provide your input, ideas and comments!! Your voice can be heard!!

It is necessary that we all put our hands together in the combat against climate change. These issues cannot be emphasized enough and actions and activities to overcome them are always encouraged and applauded. Therefore, we encourage you all to log on to the website below and sign the petition as soon as possible. Keep in mind that the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark will take place December 7 and we want to make our presence felt and our voices heard. Take this chance to make a change!! You can upload your own image and sign the petition now: http://www.sealthedeal2009.org/

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EU Driver’s License Calendar of Events European legislation has shifted to implementing a

single model of a driving license throughout Europe, in order to ensure safety and security. Approximately 60% of the population of the European Union has a valid driving license, amounting to approximately 300 million citizens. The new regulations that will be put in effect as of January 2013 will focus on the reduction of fraud and allow for EU drivers to move freely throughout the member states of the EU.

1. Engage Today – 30 Sept.

2009 – Calgary, Canada 2. World Financial Information

Conference – 04 Oct. 2009 – Athens, Greece

3. International Business &

Economics Conference – 05 Oct. 2009 – Las Vegas, Nevada

Holding the new Community model license makes the acknowledgment of one’s rights easier throughout all member states and with administrative bodies. The main aspects of the directive 2006/126/EC include the following:

4. European Anti-Corruption

Summit – 20 Oct. 2009 – Brussels, Belgium

• Measures pertaining to anti-fraud • Further synchronization of categories • Strengthen progressive access to

categories 5. X Conference European

Culture – 22 Oct. 2009 – Barcelona, Spain • Harmonized periodicity medical checks

• Requirements for driving examiners 6. Universal Accounting

Conference 2009 – 02 Nov. 2009 – Las Vegas, Nevada

For more information visit the European Commission’s site: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/behavi or/driving_licence_en.htm 7. Civil Society Summit – 11 Nov.

2009 – Bangalore, India

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Winning Young Scientists TOP 10 CEOS WHO NEVER

WENT TO COLLEGE Announced in Paris

1. David Oreck Fifteen young researchers were awarded this month in Paris for their talent in science. The contest takes place each year since 1989, in which the first competition took place in Brussels. The Contest is an initiative of the European Commission and was started in order to encourage cooperation between scientists of a young age, while providing students also with the chance to compete with others in the scientific field and meet others that have similar interests.

2. Richard Branson

3. Andrew Carnegie

4. John D. Rockefeller

5. Henry Ford

6. Steve Jobs The prizes that the 15 winners received amounted to more than 50,000 EUR, while the first prizes went to contestants from Ireland, Poland and Switzerland. This year a prize was also awarded for the first time to two individuals from the United States for international cooperation.

7. Walt Disney

8. John Paul DeJoria

9. Barry Diller The age groups of young scientists that participate in the annual contest are from 14 to 21 years old, while contests in the past have resulted in a number of scientific advancements and innovative business proposals.

10. Bill Gates

To read a bit about the story of these successful CEOs who made it without a formal college education visit the site:

This year’s first place winners included: Ireland’s Liam McCarthy and John O’Callaghan for the biology project “The Development of a Convenient Test Method for Somatic Cell Count and its Importance in Milk Production’, Aleksander Kubica and Wiktor Pilewski from Poland for their physics project titled “Spiral Zone Plates” and Fabian Gafner from Switzerland for his physics project “Dikranos – the Airplane with Reverse Gear”. (Continuation on page 4)

Source: http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/top-10-ceos-who-never-went-to-college/

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Winning Young Scientists Announced in Paris…cont.

Second and third place went to young scientists and researchers from Hungary, France, Germany, Malta and Spain for projects in physics, engineering, earth science and information technology science.

Useful Links - InSafe Homepage: European

Network of eSafety Awareness,

Besides the aforementioned prizes, two honorary awards were also presented, which included (1) the ability to attend the 2009 Nobel prize ceremony and to actually meet with the winners and (2) the ability to take part in a summer science festival in 2010 with a duration of two weeks.

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- Public art online: The leading public art resource,

For more information, please visit: http://www.publicartonline.o rg.uk/resources/usefullinks/http://ec.europa.eu/research/youngscientists/index_en.cfm europe/

- INFORSE-Europe: The international network for sustainable energy, Seniors in Action

http://www.inforse.org/euroIt is more than well-known, nowadays, that the population all around the developed world is aging, while at the same time the fertility rate has reached its lowest level. No doubt the same holds true for the entire European Union (EU) membership whose ‘senior citizens’ continue to be on the increase at an unprecedented rate. All these senior citizens have a lot to offer to all of us, especially to younger generations. They are “living carriers” and “indispensible reservoirs” of valuable knowledge, skills and competencies.

pe/index.htm - Euroguidance: Resources for

guidance counselors, http://www.euroguidance.net/

- Career Guide for Schools, http://www.career-guide.eu/

- European research papers archive, http://eiop.or.at/erpa/

- European Union studies association: Information and ideas on the European Union, http://www.eustudies.org/

Therefore, concrete initiatives and joint projects at both the national and the international level are urgently needed in order to “bring together” in a mutually creative and beneficial manner the older and the younger generations, so that there is a long-lasting and continuous interaction and interchange between the two groups. (Continuation on page 5)

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Seniors in Action (cont…)

And such initiatives do constitute an obligation on the part of the state’s socio-political priorities but, in addition, private organizations with social and educational sensitivity/orientation may very well make their valuable contribution as well. It is within the framework of all the development of our contemporary societies and the urgent need to genuinely turn our collective attention to our seniors that the joint transnational project “Seniors in Action” has already concluded its entire implementation phase, with the active participation of decades of seniors and young children/adolescents alike in several European countries. Senior volunteers from seven European countries aged “fifty years and plus”, coming from and representing virtually the entire spectrum of social and professional strata, have already joined forces through this project and are ready/willing to share their invaluable knowledge and competencies with youth Europe-wide. It goes without saying that this unique “know-how” of our senior co-citizens who, themselves, have been sensitized and “trained” to reach out and “train” the younger generations of ours, should in no way be lost or wasted in the routine of a seemingly “plain indifference” characterizing – unfortunately much of our daily space. For further information at project’s site (regularly updated): www.ecose.org/seniorsinaction

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