Projects

Art without Borders

Art Without Borders will provide digital exhibits of images by artists from around the world struggling to express the complexity of life under globalization. The gallery will feature artists whose work is entirely or largely unknown to mainstream, Western viewers in order to bring new perspectives into play. Art Without Borders will also encourage artists in different countries and regions to curate exhibitions virtually by allowing them to use the Internet to overcome the geographical isolation that has separated and silenced them. [Project Description]

FACE Human Rights

FACE Human Rights—Forum to Advocate, Communicate and Engage Human Rights—is an international, interactive human rights forum through which students can engage each other as global citizens by sharing ideas about how to improve the quality of life for people around the world. FACE Human Rights is also a powerful, decentralized network. Despite distance, borders, media indifference, overt and covert efforts at repression and isolation, FACE Human Rights permits individuals and organizations from around the world to connect, share information and resources, organize and act in fluid combinations as the situational “market” requires. FACE Human Rights serves as a source of the information and skills necessary for individuals to function as engaged citizens, as a forum in which well-documented positions can be tested against one another, and as a powerful tool for global networking. FACE contributors, editors and advisors form an international community of students, academics, journalists and human rights specialists that spans the Balkans, Central Asia, Middle East, South Africa and United States. [Project Description]

International Civic Engagement Project (ICEP) Online Library

The world is awash in American service learning materials. What is hard to find—because it is scattered and often not in English—is the innovative material being produced in Eastern and Central Europe, in the CIS, in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. What is also missing is the practical stuff—model agreements that other universities have used with their NGO partners, example projects students can do, advice about how to organize a civic engagement office. To overcome these problems ICEP is developing an online library of such materials developed by partners from Estonia to South Africa.

Leonard da Vinci Project

The Leonard da Vinci Project, funded by the EU, is a twelve university collaboration that will gather, assess and disseminate best practices in the area of service learning in the EU, specifically directed towards supporting its development in the accession states. It aims to conduct empirical research across a range of states, to survey and gather best practices information on key examples of service learning in the EU, with the primary purpose of disseminating this information for the benefit of accession countries. [Project proposal]

Sectors Dataset II-Labor

Trade union data for 100 countries, 1980-1999 (names, industry, membership, strike activity-frequency/length/striker numbers, etc.), with industries classified by sectors aggregated at the 2 digit SITC code level by sector (0, 1, 4, 22, 29, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 63, 66, 68, 23, 25, 5, 62, 64, 67, 69, 71, 73, 74, 78, 79, 54, 72, 75, 76, 87, 88, 26, 60, 61, 65, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89). SPSS data table format.