International Engagement. Notre Dame has built strong relationships with a number of international partners from both the higher education and industry sectors. This provides our students with access to various programs that will enhance both their university experience and their outlook on life. Opportunities exist for study abroad, social justice and outreach programs and international practicum placements. Relationships have been fostered with a number of participating universities whereby student exchange (between the two countries) can occur for both study pursuits in addition to a small number of work experience opportunities. Participation in these programs goes well beyond the academic, building on students’ strengths and abilities to enhance personal growth. Visiting scholars and opportunities for academic staff exchange in order to spend a semester teaching at an overseas partner university are also available. This ensures that international networking, collaborative research, discipline and workplace perspectives and culture are developed.
International Engagement. It is recognised that the OGA has its own list of priority countries from a MER UK perspective, which will not always mirror the Government's own priprity list. The OGA and BEIS will provide assistance to one another where possible.
International Engagement. Eataly Eataly25 is an international chain of stores (in Europe, North America, Asia) providing food and drink from hundreds of small Italian producers. The ‘Manifesto’ of Eataly says: “We love high quality food and drink. We love the stories about it, the people who produce it, the places it comes from. Good food brings all of us together, and helps us find a common point of view… By creating and offering the best products, we improve our own lives, and bring added value to yours… Our target audience is everyone… Our three promises to you are: choice, accessibility, knowledge...”. Its development strategy focuses on enhancement of quality, maintenance of traditional professions and crafts, storytelling, learning activities, and on creative interventions.
International Engagement. Slow Food Slow Food26 is a worldwide-known grassroots network represented in 150 countries through the ‘Convivium’, a contact point between producers and consumers where food culture and respect of environment are promoted. Reacting against disappearance of traditional food and taste due to fast and junk food, supporting food and drink local products and developing sustainable production policies express the most important guidelines of Slow Food’s mission. Slow Food organizes international projects about territory conservation, implementation of sustainable agriculture systems and biodiversity preservation (‘Terra Madre’); it is also engaged in tertiary education with University of Gastronomic Science (Pollenzo, Piemonte).
International Engagement. The ALA in operation The Atlas will provide access via the internet to information on the identity, taxonomy, appearance, utility, occurrence, distribution, biodiscovery and conservation of Australian plants, animals, fungi and microbes. It will provide the e-infrastructure capacity to hold an electronic page for every species of living Australian organism – plants, animals, fungi, and microbes – accessible through a single web portal. Users will have free and open access to information on the scientific and common names, distribution, images, diagnostic characteristics, DNA profiles, genomic and proteomic data, habitat and ecological relationships, and information on pest, commercial or conservation status. Species pages will be grouped together to form chapters of related organisms. Each chapter will contain a summary of biological information for that group, notes on classification, and electronic keys to constituent taxa. Because pages will be held in a classification, information for any given taxon will immediately be available on its phylogenetic position and related organisms. The information will be delivered through holding it directly in given web pages, through linkages to other web sites, and through the ability to request data from the distributed databases held in Australian biological collections.
International Engagement. The Atlas will be integrally linked with key international initiatives such as the Encyclopaedia of Life (EOL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). One of the roles of the Atlas will be to pay the subscription to GBIF on behalf of the Australian Government. Membership of GBIF allows Australian representatives to serve on GBIF committees and therefore contribute to and obtain access to international activities in the Biological Information field. The Atlas will also incorporate the Australian portal to GBIF, the Australian Biodiversity Information Facility (ABIF).
