Campus Compact

A Campus Compact é uma rede de milhares de escolas nos EUA destinada a dar resposta às mais variadas necessidades sociais através de trabalho realizado por alunos das instituições envolvidas na rede.
Desde casas para sem-abrigo até design de ajudas técnicas, esta rede já deu origem a inúmeros projectos ao longo de mais de 20 anos.

Retirado do site:
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. As the only national higher education association dedicated solely to campus-based civic engagement, Campus Compact promotes public and community service that develops students’ citizenship skills, helps campuses forge effective community partnerships, and provides resources and training for faculty seeking to integrate civic and community-based learning into the curriculum.

"Iluminar é preciso" - Exposição de alunos do IPCA

De 16 a 19 de Dezembro decorre no auditório do IPCA a exposição "Iluminar é preciso", que consiste numa série de projectos de candeeiros feitos por alunos de Design Industrial em colaboração com a iniciativa Design é Preciso.

Mas quem foi que criou o mito sobre os velhos?

A revista do New York Times publicou um artigo sobre uma experiência levada a cabo por dois professores de economia sobre diferenças entre as capacidades de correr riscos, competitividade e cooperação de dois grupos diferentes de pessoas: um com participantes acima de 50 anos e outro com participantes abaixo dos 30.
Os resultados falam por si. Vamos lá ver se se acaba com estes "mitos urbanos".

Notícia:

"Myth of the Deficient Older Employee, The
Although workers who were 45 and older had lower unemployment rates in 2008 than younger workers, they stayed unemployed for longer periods, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is not surprising. Employers are often reluctant to hire older workers, not only because they have higher health care costs and sometimes command higher salaries but also because of their reputational stigma. Older workers are commonly thought of as being less productive and less willing to learn than younger workers, as well as overly cautious. But this year economists presented a more nuanced picture than the above stereotypes suggest.

In The American Economic Review in June, Gary Charness, an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Marie Claire Villeval, a colleague from the University of Lyon, published the results of a study in which they pitted "seniors" (those over 50) against "juniors" (those under 30) in three different decision-making tasks. These were formulated to test risk taking, competitiveness and cooperation.

As it turns out, the "seniors" more than hold their own. The seniors were also more cooperative, contributing more to their group during the cooperation test. The seniors outperformed the juniors on one competitive word game — and were only "very slightly less" competitive overall, Charness says. "Older workers," he stresses, "don't suffer from the deficiencies that a lot of people think they do."

Another welcome finding of the study came during the cooperation portion, when Charness and Villeval found that groups with a mix of ages outperformed homogeneous groups. For an optimum work force, Charness says, it is best to have a range of ages in the office. LIA MILLER"

Design for Giving Contest 2009

Riverside School is thrilled to announce that the final round of judging has concluded for India's largest social change contest for schoolchildren. An international jury panel met to select 100 winning entries from more than 1,300 moving stories of change from around India. And what a fantastic journey this has been- a journey to discover what school children can do if they are empowered to be the change they want to see in this world!`

(see here)