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Germany’s fears that the sanctions could affect European companies involved with Russia have barely registered in the US media’s coverage. Neither has the prospect of countermeasures by member state governments and the European Commission.

Will Germany be drawn into a trade war?

By: EBR | Friday, August 4, 2017

Washington’s decision to impose more sanctions on Moscow has been criticised by EU member states, particularly Germany

Companies contribute to this work through sectoral skills bodies and by using their supply chains to raise skill levels. Civil society agencies engage under-represented communities. Educational institutions offer improved work placements and refine the curricula to meet local needs. In this way, a wider learning culture can emerge in which risk and creativity are supported, and exclusion and inequality are addressed.

Lifelong learning helps people, governments and business. Why don’t we do more of it?

By: EBR | Thursday, August 3, 2017

Learning throughout life makes sense. Research shows it is good for your health, your wealth, your civic engagement and your family’s future prospects. It prolongs your independent life and enriches your quality of life

Switzerland’s Federal Constitution was completely changed in 1874. The importance of the cantons was lessened in favour of the country’s central administration. People moving between cantons were given full voting rights after three months, which was beneficial to those moving from rural areas to big cities at the time, and referendums at a federal level were introduced. The revision of the constitution had to be voted on too, of course, and was approved with 63% of the vote.

This is how Switzerland’s direct democracy works

By: EBR | Thursday, August 3, 2017

More than its snow-capped mountains and nifty, collapsible army knives, Switzerland is perhaps best known for its system of democracy

Sadly, women in historically masculine professions are not yet judged by gender-neutral standards (e.g. performance, self-confidence). Often, their excellence will be recognized only after they appease gender stereotypes. For these women, at least, “Believe in yourself” is advice that addresses only one facet of the challenge they face – and is thus insufficient.

Women must exhibit their feminine behaviour to break the glass ceiling

By: EBR | Thursday, August 3, 2017

Ensuring gender equality in the workplace starts with women showing “feminine” behaviours and boosting their self-confidence

The fund of funds was not named for compliance reasons, but its research showed that, had the 50 companies been a VC portfolio, it would have been the second-best-performing fund of all time. Only one fund has ever chosen better, which did most of its investments in the late 1990s and rode the dotcom bubble successfully. Of course, in this hypothetical portfolio, one could choose any company, whereas VCs often need to compete to invest.

A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishing

By: EBR | Friday, July 28, 2017

In 2009, Ira Sager of Businessweek magazine set a challenge for Quid AI's CEO Bob Goodson: programme a computer to pick 50 unheard of companies that are set to rock the world

To be sure, not all companies use data against their customers. When a 2015 Harvard Business School study, and subsequent review by Airbnb, uncovered routine bias against black and ethnic minority renters using the home-sharing platform, Airbnb executives took steps to clamp down on the problem. But Airbnb could have avoided the need for the study and its review altogether, because a really smart application of AI algorithms to the platform’s data could have picked up the discrimination much earlier and perhaps also have suggested ways of preventing it. This approach would exploit technology to support better decision-making humans, rather than displace humans as decision-makers.

Rage against the machines: is AI-powered government worth it?

By: EBR | Friday, July 28, 2017

From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of proprietary software in sentencing in many US courts..

Research into self-organizing systems has produced software that can manage complex operational problems in energy infrastructure. Air Liquide, for example, has a unique system in its US operations that improves its gas transportation efficiency. It uses a software system that is based on the foraging behaviour of Argentine ants, which use pheromones to communicate which foraging routes are the strongest.

Can blockchain help us to solve climate change?

By: EBR | Monday, July 24, 2017

We humans are a swarm. The increasing harmonization of our habits and behaviours has an enormous impact on the environment. How we shop, work, eat and sleep affects the kind of infrastructure we need in homes, cities and countries

Thousands of Greeks contacted me looking for information on the necessary procedures to leave Greece to work abroad. Unemployed people from all over the country, of all ages, from 16 to 60-plus from all educational backgrounds - doctors, lawyers, PhD candidates (who are not paid for their work in Greece), biologists, engineers, amongst others -make up a list that keeps growing by the day.

No right to dream: The on-going journey of a young journalist through thousands messages of Greek despair

By: EBR | Thursday, July 20, 2017

My interview with Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in Space, plus the fact that I moved abroad to escape the Greek crisis, enduring many difficulties to make my dreams come true, were the reasons for being interviewed by the TV presenter, Fei Mavragani in one of Greece’s most popular TV shows

n a food system that uses 70% of the world’s fresh water and makes up almost a quarter of global carbon emissions, sustainability can be increased through new approaches, such as drone-enabled artificial intelligence linked to mobile apps, and traditional ones, such as using insects for protein. And in a world where half the population is hungry, overweight or micronutrient deficient, better nutrition might be achieved through pioneering research on the human microbiome or simply by scaling up nutrient fortification.

Tech for dinner: how our food is changing as fast as our iPhones

By: EBR | Thursday, July 20, 2017

A decade ago, the tech giant Apple released the first iPhone. Picture your life before then. Did you keep your personal calendar in a book? Did you pull the car over and unfold a map when you got lost?

The Western Balkans remain dominated by old and new enmities. Ethnic divisions seem more entrenched than before and state institutions remain unstable and weak. This presents serious hurdles for the democratic transformation of the region.

The EU and the Balkans: Parallel lives forever?

By: EBR | Thursday, July 20, 2017

Pessimism is real, but scapegoating the EU for the slow transformation of the Western Balkans is unfair

Investment in human capital, particularly in higher education and training, not only helps African countries excel in manufacturing production, but also to move up the value chain. The production of fairly low-tech processing of agriculture goods, textile and leather goods may help towards poverty alleviation but will not create a permanent dent on poverty. Therefore, the efforts made so far in this area need to be redoubled.

4 ways Africa can achieve a manufacturing renaissance

By: EBR | Monday, July 17, 2017

For the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union), African leaders adopted the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want – a vision for a prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development

Such nuclear and missile activities are a direct threat to South Korea, most obviously, but also to Japan. However, it is a wider problem for the non-proliferation regime itself and so one of the most pressing issues in global politics. The US government had stated that it will not allow North Korea to develop an ICBM, or intercontinental ballistic missile, but now that it clearly has, US response is not clear. It would appear that Washington will fall back on old policies such as economic sanctions that have had little impact so far on North Korean decision-making.

Will North Korea’s nuclear ambitions provoke a new arms race?

By: EBR | Monday, July 17, 2017

Nuclear and missile developments in the Korean peninsula have been the focus of global attention, not only because of North Korea’s tests, but also its repeated threats against South Korea, Japan and the United States

I was trying throughout my career to be helpful to Greece. ’’Helpful’’ is a bad expression - I wanted to be loyal to the legacy of this big nation. Sometimes I am reading in German papers and others - Austrian, Dutch - that Greece is a small country. That is not true; Greece is a big nation. And that is the reason why I fell in love with this nation. And I was trying throughout my career - President of the Eurogroup, President of the Commission, Prime Minister, whatsoever - to respect the dignity of the Greek people. Because the dignity of the Greek people was not respected by all of the Europeans and I wanted to have this dignity respected.

Jean-Claude Juncker: «Greece and Europe: A story - a humanitarian journey»

By: EBR | Friday, July 14, 2017

Speech by President Juncker at the Award of Honorary Doctorate at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The truth is that it wasn’t Putin – or even Trump now – as much as George W. Bush and his reckless foreign policy cowboys – remember Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, all names that should live in infamy – who did most of the shredding of that liberal international order.

The liberal international order: Just who shredded it?

By: EBR | Friday, July 14, 2017

Blaming Putin cannot cover up the noxious combination of collective U.S. amnesia and the transparent shift of accountability for the proper conduct in international affairs

Net neutrality is a term used to describe the principle that internet service providers should treat all of the data they’re delivering to customers equally, and not block, slow down or charge extra for services provided by competitors.

What is net neutrality and why should I care?

By: EBR | Friday, July 14, 2017

It may not stop traffic – of either the vehicular or digital kind – but there is a huge protest taking place in the United States today and, unusually, this one is being staged by many of the country’s biggest companies

The risks and challenges of establishing an additional campus, however, can be numerous. An important consideration is the faculty’s legitimate concern that postings over multiple locations may dilute the interactions among its members and affect their research productivity. While an institution doesn’t necessarily need to rally its entire faculty body to go international, it will need broad support for it to succeed. Faculty resistance also occurs when an institution plans to enter a market where there are different degrees of academic freedom, which could be especially challenging in the case of the liberal arts colleges.

How higher education institutions should internationalise

By: EBR | Friday, July 7, 2017

Schools that desire to be truly international should think like global companies

“New technologies are redefining industries, blurring traditional boundaries and creating new opportunities on a scale never seen before. Public and private institutions must develop the correct policies, protocols and collaborations to allow such innovation to build a better future, while avoiding the risks that unchecked technological change could pose,” said Murat Sönmez, Head of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum.

These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2017

By: EBR | Thursday, July 6, 2017

A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including “artificial leaves” that turn CO2 into fuel, and a technique that harvests water from air, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum

By 2020 more than 50 billion things, ranging from cranes to coffee machines, will be connected to the internet. That means a lot of data will be created - too much data, in fact, to be manageable or to be kept forever affordably. Gateways can help; they not only dispatch traffic but carry out some analytics functions, so that data can be better managed. For example, they could be used to filter out ‘normal’ data over time and to look for unusual patterns which may indicate a problem. They can also improve the costs of the transmission and storage of all that data. In next-generation network technology, these gateways will be used dynamically as part of the network where and when needed.

The Internet of Things will power the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Here’s how

By: EBR | Friday, June 30, 2017

What does “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” actually mean?

For all the attention she has received globally in recent times, one vital dimension of her duration in office has so far been completely overlooked. In the entire world, Angela Merkel is now the woman who has led her respective country’s government on a continuous basis for the longest time period in any nation that has more than one million inhabitants.

Angela Merkel: Ever-lasting woman leader?

By: EBR | Thursday, June 29, 2017

Among countries with populations of at least 100,000 people, which woman holds the record for the longest uninterrupted tenure as the elected head of government?

Develop a regular practice for reflection and introspection. As you continuously expand your awareness of your behaviours, thoughts and feelings, you will understand, non-judgementally, your career journey and learn from the stories within. Such a practice can increase empathy and show you how to be compassionate to yourself and consequently to others, while fostering deeper-level connections. Meditation, mindfulness, metacognition or even journaling can all to a different degree contribute to extend your awareness.

How to author authenticity

By: EBR | Thursday, June 29, 2017

How someone reflects upon and describes their journey can determine how much they stand out

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