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Mar

The Fourth Course of the National Program Began

11.03.2014BySchool of PoliticsNews

The fourth course of the National Programme “Governing Skills”, dedicated to European policies and principles of the good governance in the EU, began today at the Riu Hotel in Pravets. The participants presented their measures for judicial reform. They were divided into four groups; they received profiles of four different parties and had to develop...

Mar

The next age of government

10.03.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party says we’re entering a new era — where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, he explores how these trends could be turned into smarter policy..

Mar

Why business can be good at solving social problems

03.03.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society’s biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he’s biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive problems like climate change and access to water. Why? Because when business solves a problem, it...

Feb

Let’s go all-in on selling sustainability

24.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

The big blue buildings of Ikea have sprouted solar panels and wind turbines; inside, shelves are stocked with LED lighting and recycled cotton. Why? Because as Steve Howard puts it: “Sustainability has gone from a nice-to-do to a must-do.” Howard, the chief sustainability officer at the furniture megastore, talks about his quest to sell eco-friendly...

Feb

The New Others

21.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsNews

The State policy regarding the refugees was the topic of an open debate between Alumni of the Bulgarian School of Politics, representatives of the state administration and stakeholders. The discussion was attended by the Chairman of the State Agency for Refugees Mr. Nikolay Chirpanliev and the lawyer Mr. Shteryo Nojarov . Mr. Chirpanliev presented to...

Feb

Architecture at home in its community

17.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely nothing to do with Africa. In this charming talk, Vilalta shows how he champions an alternative approach:...

Feb

A Training “Governing Skills” for women political leaders ended

14.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsNews

Twenty women who have been trained for 5 days received their certificates today 14th February. The special training for women politicians was organised by the Bulgarian School of Politics “Dimitry Panitza”. The traineeship is part of the project “More Women in Politics in 2014” conducted by the “Balkan Assist”. At the ceremony representatives of eleven...

Feb

Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

10.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all atomic matter? With wit and charm, Giudice outlines a grim fate — and why we...

Feb

Life in the “digital now”

03.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsVideo Gallery, Videos

One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on what’s real?

Feb

Long-term Strategies for Bulgaria –the Judicial Reform

01.02.2014BySchool of PoliticsNews

Accent during the last day of the third course of the National Program was the panel “Long-term Strategies for Bulgaria”. The topic was judicial reform. Special guests were Judge Kalin Kalpakchiev, who is a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, Sava Petrov from the Prosecutor’s Association and Hristo Ivanov, program director at the Bulgarian Institute...

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