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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...Introduction: English Types of bread in the Netherlands have historically been divided east-west and north-south, determined by the cereal that was grown. In the south-west wheat was grown on the clay soil and brown bread was baked from this. In the south and east rye bread was eaten because of rye and oat harvests. White bread used to indicate status. For centuries Dutch...
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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...introduction of several additional sports to the 2024 games would also mean the introduction of a number of new technical terms that have not yet found a French translation, the French Ministry of Culture together with the Ministry for Sport set up an expert panel to ensure that new French terms that can be used for the games (and beyond) are identified and defined....
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Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification of a suitable candidate drug molecule to the development of a commercial drug product available in the clinic for pain relief or as an anti-inflammatory...Drug development process: combating pain, is a free course offering a brief introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, which is designed to develop your writing skills for business. You will be taken step by step through the process of writing a SWOT analysis, with clear advice on selecting key information from a case study, making concise notes, choosing an appropriate structure and using...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...Introduction This series of videos offers a chance to embark on an ‘International virtual field trip’. In addition to observing and thinking geographically, importantly there’s a lot of emphasis on listening to perspectives from across a range of contexts across the Global South. Although clearly not in the Global South, the International virtual field trip starts...
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Article 5 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...management? PAUL WALLEY My interest is first provoked when I reviewed the progress of an IT project. The project didn’t seem to be going very well. And it became apparent quite quickly that one of the main issues was that of managing the stakeholders in the project. Their failure to engage the stakeholders has had a significant detrimental impact on the progress and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...project leader for 25zero, set up to spread the word about climate change and the glaciers’ demise. The project has developed an app for smartphones that will record how far a user’s daily activity – walking, running, whatever – goes towards matching the distance covered by mountaineers who climbed three mountains in Asia, Africa and South America to highlight the...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...project, the What could critical psychosocial (anti) self-help look like? project, and many more in CCIG’s Research Archive. An open methodological signature integrates technical expertise in methods with a critical conception of method. As such it sees method as a social accomplishment to be built, rather than an objective truth to be uncovered. This makes each method...
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