Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Koç Holding Board Member İpek Kıraç says now is the time for leaders and institutions to take bold action on gender inequality. "The most significant indicator for leaders and institutions in tackling gender inequality should be to set targets and to be determined to accomplish them," Kıraç commented during the UN Women panel "A Year of Action: Building more equal and inclusive digital ...
Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Koç Holding Board Member İpek Kıraç says now is the time for leaders and institutions to take bold action on gender inequality. "The most significant indicator for leaders and institutions in tackling gender inequality should be to set targets and to be determined to accomplish them," Kıraç commented during the UN Women panel "A Year of Action: Building more equal and inclusive digital ...
The LEGO Foundation and Big Change
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - New digital platform supporting young people's participation in global conversations about the future of education launched by Big Change in partnership with the LEGO Foundation. 'The Big Education Conversation' was launched at the United Nation's Transforming Education Summit in New York. The platform, www.bigeducationconversation.org, has ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Berlin & New York (ots) - - Bain & ZINTINUS: “The food sector is at a tipping point, about to grow exponentially” - Transforming the global food sector to a more sustainable industry is important to improve consumer health and reduce the sector’s carbon footprint – it is also a means to secure food supply - The transition of the food system opens enormous opportunity for value creation and thus also for ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Living Wage is embedded within wider set of responsible pay practices aimed at creating equal opportunities and building a more inclusive society Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, announces it has achieved living wage certification across all of its global operations. Firmenich is the ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - Last year, the SNSF selected around 1800 research projects for funding. It also launched new funding measures because Swiss researchers are not able to participate in important areas of the Horizon Europe programme. Expanding knowledge and solving problems. That is what thousands of SNSF-funded research teams do at Swiss universities and other higher education institutions. Their curiosity and their ...
Arlington, Va. (ots/PRNewswire) - Industrial companies consume over half of the energy and produce one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions globally, giving the sector a significant opportunity to support climate initiatives. A new report from Manufacturers Alliance Foundation and Infosys (NYSE: INFY), "Delivering on ...
Doha, Qatar (ots/PRNewswire) - Qatar Foundation has announced the launch of its Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future, a non-profit policy center, at the annual Doha Forum summit. Building on a legacy of many years of work by Qatar Foundation (QF) in the field of sustainability, the new center will channel QF's education, research, and innovation ecosystem into ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Day one sees innovative launches, inspiring speakers, sign language interpretation and insights from the GSMA's Mobile Economy Report The world's largest and most influential connectivity event opens its doors today at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. MWC22 Barcelona will build on the success of last year, reflecting on a new era of connectivity and collaboration across the mobile ...
Bengaluru, India (ots/PRNewswire) - Career development, training & mentoring, networking, and international opportunities valued highly by interns Infosys(NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced that its flagship global internship program, InStep, was ranked as the 'Best Overall Internship ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Fulcrum Digital, a leading business platform, and digital engineering services company with a proven legacy of enabling digital transformation across sectors, partnered with Global Gate, a global investment management company, to accelerate a company-wide digital transformation. This strategic collaboration aimed at designing a modernised IT ...
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Bern, 14.10.2021 (ots) - The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) strives consistently and continuously to improve the quality of research. A ban on animal and human experiments would massively restrict the opportunity to gain knowledge and adversely affect Switzerland as a research hub. On 13 February 2022, the Swiss electorate will vote on the initiative to ban animal and human experiments. Acceptance of the ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - BMO's Third Quarter 2021 Report to Shareholders, including the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements for the period ended July 31, 2021, is available online at www.bmo.com/investorrelations and at www.sedar.com. Financial Results Highlights Third Quarter 2021 Compared With Third Quarter 2020: - Net income of $2,275 million, an increase of 85%; adjusted net income1,4 of $2,292 ...
Bern, Switzerland (ots) - The exhibition and meeting space "Habitat" of the Wyss Academy for Nature in Bern will newly present the work "Morphologies", which explores the moment of wonder towards nature that is common to art and science. At the same time, the Wyss Academy is addressing a pressing issue in the field of sustainable development: Engaging with people from research, politics, business, and agriculture on four ...
My Size Inc.; Trutex Schoolwear
Airport City, Israel (ots/PRNewswire) - Trutex Schoolwear, the premier school uniforms retailer in the UK, and MySize (the "Company" or "My Size") (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ), the developer and creator of smartphone measurement solutions, today announced the successful integration of the MySizeID widget on Trutex's ...
Porto, Portugal (ots/PRNewswire) - The second edition of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine is currently underway. Worth three hundred thousand Euros, this prize is intended to reward a work with exceptional quality results and scientific relevance published in the last ten years in the broad field of biomedicine. The winner will be chosen by an independent and ...
Bern (ots) - swissuniversities has concluded a new Read&Publish agreement with John Wiley & Sons. It will provide students and researchers from over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions access to the Wiley Online Library with over 1'450 journals. At the same time, this agreement enables authors affiliated to these institutions to make their scientific ...
Les Roches Global Hospitality Education
Crans-Montana, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Les Roches, the highly regarded hospitality business school recently ranked third for Employer Reputation by the QS World University Rankings 2021 is launching the second edition of "The Next Disruptor", a scholarship competition seeking ideas for positive disruption in hospitality, travel, and tourism. With the changing ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Sommet Educationis the only hospitality education group with two Swiss higher education institutions, Glion and Les Roches, in the top four for Hospitality and Leisure Management education in the QS World University Rankings 2021. According to global higher education analysts ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Sommet Education, the Leading Education Group in Hospitality with Glion Institute of Higher Education, Les Roches and Ecole Ducasse, has created a one-of-a-kind virtual student Fair around hospitality, culinary and pastry arts, luxury, innovation, digital programs. Glion, Les Roches and École Ducasse offer an exceptional portfolio of graduate and post-graduate programs focusing on ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ots/PRNewswire) - G20 Leaders endorsed their declaration at the end of their summit today November 22, 2020, including agreements on steps to be taken to protect lives and shape a better future. "We, the G20 Leaders, meeting for the second time under the Saudi Presidency, stand united in our conviction that coordinated global action, solidarity, and multilateral cooperation are more necessary today ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Sudeshnar Sarkar, an editorial consultant with Beijing Review, came to know about Laiyuan, located in the city of Baoding in Hebei, the province adjoining Beijing, only at the fag-end of her decade-long stay in China. It is there that an experiment in education started, an initiative that is probably to rural education in China what the reform ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ots/PRNewswire) - The G20 has a strong tradition of working with a broad range of organizations to bring different perspectives on socioeconomic challenges to the G20 table. The Engagement Groups are independent collectives that are led by civil society organizations and the business sector from the host country. They work with other organizations from G20 countries to develop policy recommendations ...
The technical specification for the use of mobile technology in the education sector has just been revised to ensure better learning outcomes for everyone. Mobile learning has been on the rise for many years but is even more important in times such as these. With virtually the whole world living within reach of a mobile cellular network and having Internet access, mobile technology has ...