Leveraging microgrants to support capacity-building workshops in low- and middle-income countries for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

Twenty fifteen marked the year of assessment for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs that achieved the greatest success were those where evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions were implemented. The ability to practice evidence-based medicine is grounded in the creation of and access to medical literature that synthesizes research findings. The role that global health literature played in the success of the MDGs demonstrates that medical libraries and librarians have a role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Librarians can hold capacity-building workshops that provide instruction on how to access evidence-based literature and also train health professionals to conduct synthesis research. Research findings conducted by in-country health professionals are more likely to address issues being faced by local communities and will afford the possibility of obtaining the necessary evidence-based answers that can then be used to implement policies to resolve public health issues identified in the SDGs.This paper discusses how an international team of librarians leveraged funding from a Medical Library Association/Librarians without Borders/Elsevier Foundation/Research4Life grant to hold a capacity-building workshop in Zimbabwe and follow-up online trainings. The workshop focused on accessing evidence-based resources and conducting synthesis research. Outcomes included the creation and policy implementation of evidence-based knowledge products in alignment with local needs and galvanizing a multisectoral group of key individuals who have gone on to collaborate toward the vision of creating a Zimbabwe innovation hub. Looking ahead, such grants can be leveraged to conduct capacity-building to support knowledge translation and other local training needs.     

欧洲足球:引领世界足坛的潮流——第11、12届欧洲杯足球赛分析与探讨

运用观察统计、资料分析等方法,对第11、12届欧洲杯足球赛比赛情况进行分析与探讨,发现导致进球的主要区域、主要手段以及进球时段,探讨如何进行针对性防守,为比赛与训练提供借鉴与参考.     

欧洲男篮发展历程及崛起原因探析

通过对历届世界最高水平男子篮球比赛（即奥运会男子篮球比赛、世界篮球锦标赛男子比赛）前3名中欧洲球队的成绩与美洲球队成绩的比较分析,把欧洲男子篮球运动的发展分为4个时期,并讨论各个发展时期的特点,进一步重点剖析欧洲男篮崛起的原因,并阐述其发展对世界男篮竞技格局的影响。     

欧洲职业足球联赛与NBA运营模式比较之研究

通过论证对职业赛事起重要作用的是联盟的运作模式,并对欧洲足球五大联赛和NBA联赛的运营模式进行分析比较,指出欧洲联赛存在的问题和NBA运作模式的先进性。     

俄罗斯高等教育现代化进程中的质量问题

在欧洲高等教育一体化进程的影响下,正在经历转折阶段的俄罗斯高等教育领域开展了国家统一考试和国家记名投资试验,并开始实行学分制,但这些举措在实施过程中还存在一系列问题,需要做大量的工作,以切实保障高等教育的现代化、国际化的实现,提高高等教育质量。     

世界银行治理结构改革与中国的应对策略?

世界银行在全球经济治理中发挥着重要作用,但随着新兴经济体的崛起和近年来金融危机、债务危机频发,世界银行治理结构所存在的制度性缺陷显露无遗,相应改革势在必行。但是,由于世界银行具有公共组织与股份公司的双重属性,使得改革方向出现分歧,改革进程推进缓慢。从根本上说,世界银行改革中发达国家与发展中国家并不存在不可调和的利益冲突,在减贫等问题上双方存在着合作的基础。中国应积极推进世界银行治理结构改革：首先,必须明确“负责任、有作为的大国”定位,表现出推动改革的积极态度;其次,要紧密围绕“发展”主题,注重长远利益;再次,要加强对世界银行人事安排的参与;最后,要积极构建世界银行框架下发展中国家沟通与合作的正式协调机制。     

Rethinking participation in the Aarhus as European Capital of Culture 2017 project

This paper examines the relationship between cultural participation and regional development with reference to the European Capital of Culture in 2017. From the bidding stage, Aarhus 2017 claimed it put “participation” at the heart of its strategic plans, through consultation at roadshows and exhibitions. In addition, it aspired to use culture as a catalyst for development not only in the city of Aarhus but across the region of Central Denmark. This paper, therefore, examines how participation is defined and implemented to address regional development in the Aarhus 2017 process through textual analysis of documentation from Aarhus 2017 and delivery partners as well as over 20 interviews with managers and participants involved in a range of 2017 projects. The paper argues against the common prioritisation of urban and professional cultural institutions and makes the case for decentralised cultural provision that supports both amateurs and professionals through a regional networked structure.     

Designing policy: collaborative policy development within the context of the European capital of culture bid process

ABSTRACT

How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its eventual users. This policy idea was designed during the Intelligence Unit (IU) commissioned by Limerick2020 as part of the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2020. The IU took the form of a policy think-tank, tasked with generating insights, ideas and policy proposals into the place of culture within Limerick city and region. The IU structure created a set of actors and an epistemic community capable of both generating and using ideas effectively, chiefly through two mechanisms. The first involved a robust critique and rebuilding process that every element of the policy was exposed to; the second involved feedback from interested parties at specific stages in the process. This created a series of “policy entrepreneurs” capable of taking a fully costed and modelled policy suggestion to government. The findings presented in the paper include an analysis of the collaborative nature of this policy development process, Based on this framework, we also consider the role of the European City of Culture bid process as catalyst for policy development in a regional context, and present findings on this subject.     

欧洲学分转换系统的发展及其启示

回顾了欧洲学分转换系统的发展,并分析了这一系统存在的问题和矛盾.研究认为学分互换得到各国普遍认同和重视,但学分互换还在探索中前进,尚未形成定式,高校学分互换的推行需要有一强有力机制推动.     

国外大众体育志愿服务发展的经验与启示

在国际志愿服务大发展的背景下,一些发达的国家大众体育志愿活动也在蓬勃兴起与发展,迈入了组织化、规范化、科学化的轨道,成为大众体育发展的"基石".他山之石可以攻玉,了解国外大众体育志愿服务发展状况,探析其成功经验,可为我国大众体育志愿者队伍的建设与发展提供有益的启示.