Schedule for Stimulate International Training Programme on Information

October – December 2002

 

 

         September-October 2002

 

Day

Date

Hour

Location

Activity/Lecture

Subjects

Tue.

17/9

10.00

Jette

Arrival of Poudel Ashok

 

 

 

 

Community Centre Jette

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Registration of participant.

 

18/9

until Sat 21/9

 

 

 

 

Sun

22/9

9.30-14.00

Forstis Office

Forstis VUB

Visit to the ‘Midi Market’ and to the ‘Clemenceau Markets’ in Brussels city.

Mon.

23/9

8.00

Jette

Arrival of Eneya Dorothy

 

20.00

Jette

Arrival of Arachchi Rathnayake Mudiyanselage

 

Tue.

24/9

6.00, 10.00, 11.40

Jette

Arrival of Okoth Lilian Josephine, Habtamu Tigist and Nguyen le Hang

 

Wed.

25/9

6.20, 8.40, 9.55, 11.20, 11.40, 12.35

Jette

Arrival of Karega Nkatha Naomi, Shadrack Rathapo, Wema Evans, Abed El-Ghany Najy Mushtaha, Operario Iris Marigold, Lumbwe Nkulu Vivienne

 

Thu.

26/9

10.00-12.00

Community Centre Jette

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Registration of participants.

13.00-14.00

Jette

Winnie de Groove

Welcome at “Erasmus Home” and general information (with drinks and appetizers).

14.00-16.00

Jette

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Orientation tour in Jette: how to use the public transport, where to find shops nearby, how to reach the university, etc.

Fri.

 27/9

9.55

Jette

Arrival of Donasian Mabula

 

 

 

15.50

Jette

Arrival of Rasha Kotb

 

16.00-18.00

Forstis Office

Forstis VUB

Welcome for all the international students at the VUB: a welcoming atmosphere for new students with a cocktail of different styles in World music.

21.30

Jette

Arrival of Abdul Kabej Shah

 

Sat.

28/9

10.00

Jette

Arrival of Harb Younis Moussa

 

 

 

10.00-18.00

Forstis Office

Forstis VUB

Brussels practical tour. This tour shows the participants where to shop in Brussels centre, where to find cheap stores, exotic food, etc.

Sun.

29/9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

30/9

7.15  

 

Jette

Arrival of Hélène Pieume Matam

Community centre Jette

Registration of participants.

 

 

17.00-18.00

STOA

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Welcome.

18.00-21.00

STOA

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Welcome reception for all the students, organizers, library staff and teachers of the ITP ‘STIMULATE 2’.

Tue.

1/10

12.00-14.00

VUB student restaurant

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Lunch in student restaurant at VUB-campus Etterbeek.

 

 

14.30-16.30

Library VUB Etterbeek

Frans Van Roy

Guided tour of the VUB library.

Wed.

2/10

10.00-17.30

Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

Opening-congress New Scientific Library. Symposium: Science and Engineering Libraries for the 21st Century.
Welcome: G. Langouche (Belgium)

Several international guest speakers: L. Bjornshauge (Sweden), W. Van Petegem (Belgium), S. Dobrats (Humboldt), B. Savenije (the Netherlands), M. Breaks (Scotland), P. Cotoneschi (Italy), D. Van den Auwele (Belgium).
First day ends with a reception with appetizers and drinks where students can meet international specialists.

 

Thu.

3/10

9.30-12.30

Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

Opening-congress New Scientific Library. Symposium: Science and Engineering Libraries for the 21st Century.
Papers by E. Gerryts (South-Africa), M. Heyne (the Netherlands), L. Egghe (Belgium) and W. Bogaerts/Ludo Holans (Belgium).

 

 

14.30-17.00

Leuven

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Guided walk through Leuven and visit to the famous town hall, the beer brewery ‘Domus’, the central library and the new railway station.

Fri.

4/10

9.30-13.00

Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

Opening-congress New Scientific Library. Symposium: Science and Engineering Libraries for the 21st Century. Papers by P. Hubbard (United Kingdom), H. Viljoen (South-Africa), C.H. Nyns (Belgium) and P. Vanouplines (Belgium).

 

 

14.00-18.00

Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

Visit to the new science library of Leuven, followed by a reception, where all international specialists are present.

Sat.

5/10

9.30-12.30

Forstis office

Forstis VUB

Workshop ‘Living and Studying in a New Culture’: challenges and problems you might face in living in a new culture.

 

 

20.00-…

Bourse Brussels

Forstis VUB

Pubcrawl: discovering Brussels and its nightlife by visiting an amazing variety of pubs in Brussels centre.

Sun.

6/10

 

 

 

 

16.15

Jette

Arrival of Mohamed Faisel Izeldeen

 

Mon.

7/10

10.00–13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

General Internet Course (1) Theory and applications on the computer network in Jette: Computer- and network infrastructure (overview of the current infrastructure of the Medical Faculty: server(s), network(s), hard- and software and organization: who can help you to connect?).

 

 

14.00–17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

General Internet Course (2) Theory and applications on the computer network in Jette: The server system and a closer look at the commands.

Tue.

8/10

 

 

 

 

14.00-17.00

STOA

VUB

Book fair in cooperation with ‘Marnix boekhandel’.

Wed.

9/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (1). Introduction: Versions of CDS/ISIS for DOS and Windows, general overview of CDS/ISIS for Windows, Record structure and record linking, the Windows version: the main menu, availability of CDS/ISIS, software contributed by users, user groups, exchange formats.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (2). Overview of Windows: introduction, disk drives, the mouse, files and file names, folders, features of windows, dialog boxes, working with files and folders, switching off your computer.

Thu.

10/10

10.00-24.00

Brussels

Forstis VUB

Welcome day for international students: city tour, official opening, food fair, followed by concerts and party.

Fri.

11/10

10.00-13.00

Library VUB Etterbeek

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (1). Information about the library: reports, data gathering, complete and incomplete data.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Library VUB Etterbeek

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (2). Information about the library: how to sample, what to sample, measuring scales.

Sat.

12/10

10.00-13.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions. 

 

 

14.00-17.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Sun.

13/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

14/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

General Internet Course (3) Theory and applications on the computer network in Jette: the Internet (main characteristics and applications).

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

General Internet Course (4) Theory and applications on the computer network in Jette: PC and MAC network integration (illustration of the possibilities, offered by network communication) and hands-on demos and exercises.

Tue.

15/10

11.00-18.00

Brussel

Goethe Instituut

Congress “virtual library”. In the increasingly digital world, this international and interdisciplinary conference focuses on the virtuality and digitalisation in the context of libraries and archives. From Finland Kari Lämsä, IT-officer of the Multicultural Library in the Lasipalatsi centre, Helsinki participates in the section “Virtual Libraries in practice and future projects”. In collaboration with: CICEB, the European Commission, die Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt/Leipzig/Berlin and the American Embassy, Brussels.

Wed.

16/10

 9.00-17.00

Brussel

Goethe Instituut

Congress “virtual library” (see above).

Thu.

17/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Dirk Vervenne & Peter Kaczmarski

Introduction Document & Content Management.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Stephane Gierts

Document & Content Management:
Exercises in team with guiding standby.

Fri.

18/10

10.00-13.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

 

 

 

 

Sat.

19/10

9.30-12.30

Forstis Office

Forstis VUB

Workshop ‘Living in a New Culture’. Challenges, problems you might face in living in a new culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun.

20/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

21/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.00-19.00

Brussels

University Foundation

Forum on ‘Free Electronic Publishing’. Ethical Forum on Scientific Publication in the Internet Area with papers by Jacques Willems (Belgium), Herbert van de Sompel (USA), Jonathan Clark (Belgium), John Haynes (UK), Raf Dekeyser (Belgium) Marc Minon (Belgium), Marie-Christine Jannssens (Belgium), Paul boon (Belgium), Samuel Dupont (Belgium), Olivier Braet (Belgium).
The forum ends with a general discussion and comments by the guest speakers. 

Tue.

22/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Marc Nyssen

Practice ‘General Internet Course’.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Stephane Gierts

Exercises in team with guiding standby.

Wed.

23/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (3). Installation: folder structure, system parameter file syspar.par, loading the package, networking CDS/ISIS, importing database structures from other installations.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (4). Creating a database: introduction, choice of tagging scheme, field definition table (FDT), data entry worksheet, default display format, field selection table (FST), stopword list, choice of indexing technique, database parameter file, database exp file.

Thu.

24/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri.

 

25/10

9.00

Jette

Arrival of Abdel Hamid Boujdad M'Kadem

 

10.00-13.00

Library VUB Etterbeek

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (3). Descriptive statistics: graphical aspects of data such as mathematical functions, graphical representation of data, problems with graphical representations and scatterplots and regression lines.

 

 

14.00-17.00

Library VUB Etterbeek

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (4). Descriptive statistics: measuring central tendencies and irregularity of data such as the mean or average, the variance and the standard deviation, median, quartile, percentile, applications and calculation of the equation of the regression line.

Sat.

26/10

10.30-13.00

Bruges

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Guided visit to the exhibition “Cloistered World, Open Books”. Medieval manuscripts and contemporary art in a historic abbey. In this exhibition, more than a hundred manuscripts from Flanders Ten Duinen Cistercian Abbey and its branches Clairmarais and Ter Doest, bring a medieval abbey library back to life. This amazing collection of books opens up a cloistered world of texts and miniatures, with manuscripts originating from the abbey’s own scriptoria, but also from major printing centres in Western Europe. 

 

 

14.00-18.30

Bruges

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Guided tour through Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in all of Europe. Nicknamed "the Venice of the North", the picturesque canals, cobbled streets, the fabulous beguinage and Renaissance architecture have made it a favorite to all who visited it.

Sun.

27/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

28/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Dirk Vervenne & Stephane Gierts

Interim demonstration of results – feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue.

29/10

11.20

Jette

Arrival of Doris Matovelo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wed.

30/10

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Stephane Gierts

Exercises in team with guiding standby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu.

31/10

11.20

Jette

Arrival of Sarah Kagoda Batuwa

 

 

 

10.00-13.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (5). Inferential statistics: goal, three tests for the mean, namely one sample and one set of measurements, one sample but two sets of measurements, and two samples.

 

 

14.00-17.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (6). Inferential statistics: sample sizes, confidence intervals and sample sizes for multinomial fractions.

 

 

18.00-21.00

Restaurant Convivium on VUB-campus Etterbeek

Liesbeth Ghesquière,
Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Belgian beer tasting. Introduction to the famous Belgian beers, followed by a contest on recognizing the fruits in fruit beers, comparison of ‘blond’ beers, comparison of great, sweet, brown, beers.
After the beer tasting, all participants are offered a typical Belgian meal.

 

        November 2002

 

Day

Date

Hour

Location
Activity/Lecture

Subject

Remark

Fri.

1/11

 8.30-19.30

Forstis Office

Forstis VUB

Visit to Bruges. Guided walking tour through the old city, followed by a typical Belgian meal. The afternoon starts with a visit to the Gruuthuse-museum, with applied and decorative arts as its theme. The museum houses some of the most superb local tapestries, furniture and sculptures. Between 4.00 and 6.00 pm students will be free in Bruges. With their self-discovery guide they can continue to explore the city or relax in a pub. 

Confirmed

Sat.

2/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun.

3/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

4/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

Publishing on the WWW (1). WWW homepage creation: basic principles, elementary html, formatting instructions.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

Publishing on the WWW (2) WWW homepage creation: hyperlinks and graphic elements.

Confirmed

Tue.

5/11

9.30-12.30

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Eva Dimmock

Searching Scientific and Engineering Databases – INSPEC Workshop. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, INSPEC is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.

Confirmed

 

 

13.30-16.30

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Eva Dimmock

Searching Scientific and Engineering Databases – INSPEC Workshop (see above).

Confirmed

Wed.

6/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (5). The formatting language: field, subfield and occurrence selectors, modes, layout, literals, repeatable groups, windows features, displaying pictures, conditionals, REF and L, hypertext.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (6). Data entry: editing records, creating a new record, editing a range of records, deleting records logically and physically, default values, browsing the database, updating the inverted file.

Confirmed

Thu.

7/11

10.00-13.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (7) Informetric models.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (8)

Informetric models.

Confirmed

Fri.

8/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Stephane Gierts

Further exercises in team with guiding standby.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-18.30

VUB-Etterbeek PC room

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

Sat.

9/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Ronald Rousseau

Citation analysis and research evaluation on the web (1). Citation analysis: introduction, citations and citers’ motivations, citation networks and citation matrices.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Ronald Rousseau

Citation analysis and research evaluation on the web (2). Citation analysis: bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis and science policy applications, other uses of citation measures.

Confirmed

Sun.

10/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

11/11

 

 

Public holiday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue.

12/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Marc Nyssen

Publishing on the WWW (3). WWW homepage creation: tables and frames.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Marc Nyssen

Publishing on the WWW (4). WWW homepage creation: CGI and forms, hints, pointers and conclusions.

Confirmed

18.00-19.30

Erasmus Home (next to Winnie’s office)

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Birthday party for Arachchi Ratnayake Mudiyanselage

Confirmed

Wed.

13/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (7). Searching: guided search and expert search, displaying search results, dictionary display, truncation, logical operators, ANY files, proximity operators, brackets, field identifier, free-text searching, saving searches.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (8). Sorting and printing: introduction, printing using the clipboard, printing and sorting facilities, general, presentation, margins, layout, sorting, saving your print specification, printing catalogue cards, printing labels.

Confirmed

Thu.

14/11

10.00-12.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (9). Discussions on informetrics of the internet and other social networks.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Leo Egghe

Elementary statistics for effective library and information service management (10). Discussions on informetrics of the internet and other social networks.

Confirmed

17.30-18.30

VUB Etterbeek

E3.04

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Presentation of information: Introduction. This course learns participants to report in a scientific environment and how to present information to an audience. Most attention is focused on how to support presentations with a computer, using for instance presentation software.

Confirmed

Fri.

15/11

9.00-13.00

VUB-Etterbeek PC room

E102

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-18.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Carol Priestley

PERI. More detailed information on The Public Entity Risk Institute's mission to serve public, private, and nonprofit organizations as a dynamic, forward thinking resource for the practical enhancement of risk management.

Confirmed

Sat.

16/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Ronald Rousseau

Citation analysis and research evaluation on the web (3).

Confirmed

Sun.

17/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

18/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

Practising ‘publishing on the WWW’ (5).

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Dirk Vervenne & Stephane Gierts

Submission of work and demonstration in plenary sessions with final evaluation.

Confirmed

Tue.

19/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wed.

20/11

10.00-13.00

Antwerp

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (9). Exporting, importing and backing up databases: ISO 2709 format, importing an ISO 2709 file, importing from other sources, exporting to other database packages, sorting a database, backing up and restoring a database.

Confirmed

 

 

16.00-19.30

Antwerp

Egbert de Smet

Visit to Antwerp city.

Confirmed

Thu.

21/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.30-22.00

Erasmus Home (next to Winnie’s office)

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Birthday party for Habtamu Tigist + video evening (with drinks and popcorn).

Confirmed

Fri.

22/11

10.00-18.00

Royal Library of Belgium (Kunstberg)

Willy Vanderpijpen, Pascale Van Dinter, Elizabeth Mazur and Paul de Ridder.

Visit to the Royal Library of Belgium. Four topics are addressed: the ‘concept’ of a national library, the Royal Library and information technology, the royal library as preserver of documentary and cultural patrimony and ‘information’. 

Confirmed

Sat.

23/11

10.00-13.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-18.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

Sun.

24/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

25/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Frank Vermeulen

The Logical Framework Approach: A Generic Project Planning Tool.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Frank Vermeulen

The Logical Framework Approach: A Generic Project Planning Tool.

Confirmed

Tue 

26/11

10.00-13.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

14.00-18.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

Wed.

27/11

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (10). Modifying a database: introduction, modifying the field definition table, modifying the worksheet or creating a new one, modifying the field selection table, modifying or adding print formats, modifying the data, modification by exporting and importing, compacting the database and recovering a corrupted database.

Confirmed

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (11). Programming with CDS/ISIS: introduction, ISIS Pascal, extended formatting language and sources of programs.

Confirmed

20.00-…

VUB Brussels Aula Qc

Free Inquiry Organisation

Discussion evening.

Confirmed

Thu.

28/11

10.00-12.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

B005B

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Presentation of information techniques: questions and answers.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

PC-room VUB Brussels B005B

Marc Goovaerts

Open Archive Initiative and Alternatives for Electronic Journals on the Web.

Confirmed

Fri.

29/11

10.00-13.00

New Scientific Library - Leuven

Ludo Holans

Library Tour and Library Organization in the New Scientific Library of Leuven.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

New Scientific Library - Leuven

Ludo Holans

Library Tour and Library Organization in the new Scientific Library of Leuven.

Confirmed

Sat.

30/11

10.00-13.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

14.00-18.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

E102

Exercises

Preparation for next sessions.

Confirmed

 

 

        December 2002

 

Day

Date

Hour

Location

Activity/Lecture

Subject

Remark

Sun.

1/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

2/12

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

XML (1). Extensible Mark-up Language: Introduction, syntax rules, document type definitions, XML document formats, extensible style sheet language, cascading style sheet and XSL formatting objects (XSL-FMO).

 Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

XML (2). Extensible Mark-up Language: XML data formatting, document object model (DOM), simple API for XML (SAX), the broader view: semantic web and examples.

Confirmed

Tue.

 

3/12

05.30

 

Departure of Sarah Kagoda Botuwa

 

Confirmed

10-00-13.00

New Scientific Library - Leuven

Ludo Holans

Internet Searching.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

New Scientific Library - Leuven

Ludo Holans

Internet Searching.

Confirmed

Wed

4/12

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (12). Customizing the package: introduction, customizing the menus, customizing the messages, adding a language, changing the look of the screens, tailoring worksheets, changing the system parameters, controlling access to editing.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB A269

Egbert de Smet

ISIS-software environment (13) Applications: numerical applications, standard formats, sample UNIMARC database, directory database, library housekeeping systems and publishing data on the web.

Confirmed

20.00-…

VUB Brussels Kultuurkaffee

Forstis-VUB

World party with exotic music from all places. Students from Jette campus are offered free taxi service back to their campus.

Confirmed

Thu.

5/12

9.30-11.30

PC-room VUB Brussels

B005B

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Presentation of information techniques: final presentations by students.

Confirmed

11.30-12.00

PC-room VUB Brussels B005B

Liesbeth Ghesquière

Information session on the trip to Paris + official documents to send didactic material home for VLIR-students.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

PC-room VUB Brussels

B005B

Marc Goovaerts

Open Archive Initiative and Alternatives for Electronic Journals on the Web.

Confirmed

Fri.

6/12

 

Paris

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Visit to Paris (optional).

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

Sat.

7/12

 

Paris

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Visit to Paris (optional).

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun.

8/12

 

Paris

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Visit to Paris (optional).

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

9/12

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB A269

Marc Nyssen

Practising ‘XML’ (Extensible Mark-up Language).

Confirmed

11.00

Erasmushome

ICOS

VLIR-students bring their didactic material to the entrance of the ‘Erasmushome’ and put it in the van.

Confirmed

 

 

15.00

VUB-Brussels “Centraal Magzijn” (In the middle between building G-F)

ICOS – Liesbeth Ghesquiere

VLIR-students come to the ‘Centraal Magazijn’ at the VUB-campus Etterbeek to weigh the sending material and fill in the exact weight on the official transport declaration.

Confirmed

…-16.00

VUB-Brussels

Liesbeth Ghesquiere and Paul Nieuwenhuysen

Deadline for Photo contest: send your digital pictures to Paul Nieuwenhuysen or bring your pictures to the STIMULATE-office before 16.00.

Confirmed

Tue.

10/12

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Peter Pissierssens

Development of regional networks.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Peter Pissierssens

Development of regional networks.

Confirmed

 

 

19.00-21.30

Jette-VUB

Building A Auditorium 4

Centre for Development Co-operation (UCOS)

Sustainable Tuesday: "Access to water & sanitation: a basic right" (discussion).

Presentation by NGO PROTOS about the agreement of Johannesburg and problems of water cleaning, distribution and resources in the South.
20u15: discussion on water and sanitation
21u00: free drink offered by UCOS

Confirmed

Wed.

11/12

10.00-13.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Peter Pissierssens

Development of a web-based dynamic content management system.

Confirmed

 

 

14.00-17.00

Jette-VUB laptop room B.010.011

Peter Pissierssens

Development of a web-based dynamic content management system.

Confirmed

Thu

12/12

10.00-12.00

STIMULATE 2 office

Liesbeth Ghesquière

All students come to the STIMULATE-office to discuss several practical matters (refund of season tickets, reimbursement of medical expenses and payment of calculators).

Confirmed

18.00-21.00

STOA

Farewell gathering

Distribution of certificates to selected participants (and the award for the winner(s) of the photo contest).

Confirmed

Fri.

13/12

 

 

END OF VLIR-ITP STIMULATE 2

 

Confirmed

Sat.

 

14/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.30

 

Departure of Rasha Kotb

 

Confirmed

Sun.

15/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon.

16/12

11.00

 

Departure of Helene Pieume Matam and Poudel Ashok

 

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

Tue.

17/12

08.00, 17.10, 17.50

 

Departure of Donasian Mabula, Lumbwe Vivienne and Rathapo Shadrack

 

Confirmed

Wed.

18/12

6.30, 7.15, 08.25, 10.30, 18,55

 

Departure of Habtamu Tigist, Nguyen Le Hang, Wema Evans, Lilian Okoth Josiane and Harb Younis Moussa

 

Confirmed

Thu.

19/12

17.20

 

Departure of Eneya Muhambuwa Dorothy

 

Confirmed

Fri.

20/12

16.15

 

Departure of Mohamed Faisel Izeldeen

 

Confirmed

Sat.

21/12

15.20 

 

Departure of Arachchi Ratnayake Mudiyanselage

 

Confirmed

 

Sun.

22/12

12.20

 

Departure of Shah Abdul Kabej

 

Confirmed

Mon.

23/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue.

24/12

7.00, 10.00

 

 

Departure of Iris Operario Marigold and Karega Naomi Nkatha

 

 

Confirmed

Wed.

25/12

 

 

V.U.B. closed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu.

26/12

 

 

V.U.B. closed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri.

27/12

 

 

V.U.B. closed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat.

28/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun.

29/12