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the impact of European Union Enlargement on the various countries and their regional policies, delayed, to a point, the task of updating being carried out by our experts regarding this study. Consequently, after evaluating the consequences of the changes adopted by the European Council, we should have the final results by the first quarter 2006. 3. Health in Europe: In order to avoid inequality in the medical care received by European citizens and to coordinate future projects, the European Parliament is preparing a regulatory report on health in Europe. To this effect, our Salzburg central office was called on to comment on the European healthcare model in the 21 st century. To draft its report, a working group was created that created an initial report titled “Health is Wealth” as a starting point. The report was issued to some of its delegations for diagnostic purposes. Once the report was received by the Spanish delegation, a circuit of debates was organised in order to channel suggestions and reflections derived from the “Health is Wealth” report. A meeting was held in the Community of Valencia with the High Level Consultative Council of the same, which was attended by Professor Unger. Another was held in the Principality of Asturias, in La Granda, and was attended by experts in health and health-care. A debate was also held in the Basque Country last September at the Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Bilbao and in Extremadura with the support of the local Department of Health, and in close collaboration with the Yuste academy. Based on these debates, our delegation drafted a final report, which was first presented to the European Health Council and would be presented again this month of December to the European Parliament. Academics will find this report among the documentation given out. Now, based on the report and other materials we possess, our academy shall create a document which shall be published in collaboration with the Community of Madrid Directorate-General of Education. 4. University systems comparison: Our academy published the paper titled "University systems in Europe and the United States". This study is now going to be completed, and will include countries such as Great Britain and other Northern European countries and a much broader evaluation of the new Spanish legislation since the Ley Orgánica de Universidades (LOU) and its subsequent developments. Furthermore, given that the powers over universities have been transferred to the Spanish autonomous communities, t the differences characterising each one should also be analysed. It is hoped that this new study will conclude in 2006. 5. Integration of the Spanish education system into Europe. This project constitutes Phase III of the “Training Europeans” series. Phase I was crystallised in the debates held at the International Symposium organised by the academy in Barcelona. The results were included in the corresponding minutes and in the Synthesis Document. Phase II of the series resulted in the publication of “Training Europeans: Some models applicable in Spain”, which sets down the educational models applied in Spain. Now, in 2005, Phase III of this project, which completes the two previous phases, is aimed at studying the integration of the Spanish education system into Europe, and has generated 5 documents to date: “Harmonisation of university access systems: towards a European Undergraduate Passport”; “Undergraduates and the Bologna Process - the European dimension: the case of the Spanish students in educational science faculties”, “Action by and projects of universities with respect to the common European space”, “Final report on the study regarding the training of citizens in the European higher education space” and “The European dimension: presence in the syllabus and text books”. All of these documents are available to the academics present at this session. A synthesis of each document is being prepared in order to create a publication that does not exceed 250 pages in total. 6. Local Power: This study breaks down into four sub-projects. The first two “The political dialectic of local power organisation from a legal perspective” and “The role of direct democracy and federalism in local power” are in the process of being published. With respect to the other two “Local governance. New types of city and their governments” and “Management and financial models of local public services” are to be published in 2006. The four, when appropriate, shall be subject to debate in various communities. 7. Mobility and the environment in Spanish society. This project aims to closely examine the increasing phenomenon of mobility in Spain, from various perspectives: internal population movement; the movement of goods; large tourist flows; or the rapid growth rate affecting new technology (internet).
These phenomena imply serious problems, such as the strong population concentration in urban environments, pollution, the distribution of natural resources, or the “technological exclusion” of large parts of the population. All of this constitutes a fundamental factor for social restructuring and coexistence, and requires in-depth study, which has been carried out throughout the year. We hope to have the results by the first quarter of next year. 8. The determining factors of the entrepreneurial spirit in Spain and Europe. This project aims to analyse the lack of business sense that exists in our country, a fact which appears to be connected to university education, and exclusively of the errors of not creating a bridge between scientific knowledge and the applicability of the attained knowledge to society. It is a supplement to our study “Transferring university-based research to private companies”, which was completed by our academy last year. To be concluded in 2006. 9. The common space of knowledge of the EU. After the study had terminated and been disseminated at the end of last year, it was presented to different communities in order to enrich its content. The first of these meetings took place in Valencia last ovember and will continue next year starting in Extremadura. 10. Energy: The present and future of technology. We already have the edition that will be debated in various forums and communities. XI. Institutes Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability, Muenchen: Peter Wilderer Am Coulombwall, 85748 Garching, Deutschland Tel.: +49/89/2891 3700, Fax: +49/89/2891 3718 wilderer@bv.tum.de www.advances.de The mission of the Institute is to assist in the further development and in the practical application of the concept of sustainability throughout Europe. Consequently, it acts at the interface between the various scientific disciplines, the decision making s sector and the public and provides service to the governments in Europe as well as to the private sector and to the scientific community. Peter A. Wilderer acts as Director and Josef Bugl serves as Deputy-Director. The Advisory Board currently consists of Hans Huber, Martin Grambow and David Johnstone. On the essence of sustainability To promote the concept of sustainability science a partnership for sustainability was formed in 1997. Members of The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) are MIT, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, The University of Tokyo and Chalmers University, each of these universities represented by their respective president. In 2005, the University of Tokyo decided to launch a project called “Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) which will be financially supported by the Japanese Government. IoS was asked to join the scientific advisory committee of this project, and Peter Wilderer was asked to act as editor-in-chief of a journal on Sustainability Science to be published by Springer. Cooperation with AGS in general and with the University of Tokyo in particular is already in progress. Master course in Industrial Ecology in progress On advice of IoS the Singapore based German Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) started a master course in Industrial Ecology. The course is organised in cooperation with the Nanyang Technical University (NTU) in Singapore. IoS supports this project by providing lectures and scholarships. 15 students were enrolled. They completed with great success and enthusiasm the first phase of the programme (lectures) and the second phase (internship in German companies). Currently the students work on their master thesis’s. The Institute contributes to the EU Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WSSTP) The WSSTP is a European initiative, open to all stakeholders involved in the European water sector. Major achievements have been made over the past 15 months within the five thematic working groups (Water Management, Urban and Peri- Urban Water Systems, Water in Industry, Water in Agriculture, and Cross-Cutting Issues). The documents produced by these groups have been merged into three comprehensive documents ready for further discussion and refinement.
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