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Subject: H-ASIA: Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)
[Initiative] WWW

> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)[Initiative]
> *************************************************************************
> From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies
> <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au>
>
> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jan 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1 (320)
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> 21 Jan 2011
>
> Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)
>
> IDEAS consortium, at several locations, incl. Dept. of Political
> Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
>
> Self-description:
> "The overall objective of Integrating and Developing European Asian
> Studies (IDEAS) [a 30 months' project, launched 1 Jan 2010 - ed.] is
> to make progress in coordinating and bringing together academic
> research, researchers and policy-makers. IDEAS will make use of the
> expertise and resources of a recently created network, the European
> Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF)
> [http://www.ecafconsortium.com], [...]. IDEAS is a Coordination and
> Support Action (Coordination Action) funded by the European
> Commission under the 7th Framework Programme's 8th thematic priority
> 'Socio-economics sciences and humanities.'"
>
> Site contents:
> * Organization [Organization chart of IDEAS, Advisory Board];
> * Work Packages
> (# Work Package 1: Combining strengths of the ECAF network [= a
> comprehensive Europe-wide assessment of Asian Studies resources.];
> # Work Package 2: Sharing access to a network of 22 field research
> centres located in Asia [= assessment of facilities of the network of
> French, German and Italian-owned field research centres across Asia
> run by ECAF.];
> # Work Package 3: Sharing and exchanging access to knowledge
> resources [= work on the integration of ECAF network library
> resources through the creation of an IT platform which will offer
> cross-lingual access to a wide range of text, audio, video resources
> to be made available via the IDEAS project web portal.];
> # Work Package 4: Creating interconnections between EU Asian Studies
> and policymakers needs [= assessment of the current practices and
> needs of national and European policy-makers and potential other
> end-users of research, and facilitation connections and engagement
> between them and the ECAF network.]);
> * Calendar (incl.: # January 2011 5th IDEAS steering committee
> meeting 11th-13th January 2011, Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e
> l'Oriente, Rome; # February 2011 IDEAS Stakeholder Conference Towards
> a more profound understanding of Asia for decision-makers in Europe 7
> February 2011, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce; # March 2011 IT Seminar 2
> (WP3) Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome;
> * Newsletter [incl. July 2010, IDEAS Newsletter 1/2010 [PDF format]);
> * Contact (## Members of the IDEAS Consortium: # Ecole francaise
> d'Extreme--Orient (EFEO), Coordinator, France; # University of Turku,
> Finland; # Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
> Hungary; # British Academy, United Kingdom; # Asien-Afrika-Institut
> (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany; # Istituto italiano per
> l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO), Italy; # National Institute for
> computer sciences and control (INRIA), France; ## Individual IDEAS'
> officers).
>
> URL http://www.ideasconsortium.eu
>
> Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
> time of this abstract]
>
> Link reported by: Marita Siika (marsiika--at--utu.fi)
>
> * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
> guide]:
> Corporate Info.
> * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
> Academic
> * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
> marginal]:
> Useful
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> Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
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> or policies of the Internet resources it deals with.
>
> - regards -
>
> Dr T. Matthew Ciolek tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
> Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS,
> ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
> The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
> ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893
> also, Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com
>
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