Draft version of the Quality System for Eugad outputs

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on August 14, 2010 under News, Site related, Team work | Be the First to Comment

In order to reach the objectives of the Action and provide a successful quality of the Eugad outputs (Manuals, Documentaries, Website) the Eugad Team has started to arrange a Quality System which will be used as a tool to define the quality standards and procedures which aim at guaranteing the quality of the output at the Imprimatur level.

See here the draft version of the Quality System published on the wiki: http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Quality

You are welcome to contribute! Please give your feedback on the Discussion Pages on the Wiki and/or in the discussion space of Eugad Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=13900&post=69753&uid=211965065353#post69753

by Wilma Massucco

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Good practice for the Manuals – The response by Institutions: the Major of Modena Giorgio Pighi discusses with migrants about their problems and suggestions

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on August 2, 2010 under News | Be the First to Comment

Following problems and suggestions developed during the OST (a particular Forum of discussion) held in Modena on June 2nd 2010, summarized in the Instant Report, on July 20st 2010, the Major of Modena, Mr Giorgio Pighi, met the migrants and discussed with them about their problems and suggestions in order to improve the quality of life in the town. With a clear input: ”We are here not only to discuss and to promote intercultural dialogue, but to put into practice as well”

by Wilma Massucco

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New testimonial for ‘Defining Development’ – A new form of competition, the Humanitarian Competition.

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 28, 2010 under Articles, News | 3 Comments to Read

Against a global competition based on military, political or economic force, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi – a forward-thinking geographer, educational theorist and religious reformer, founder, in 1930, of the Soka Gakkai -  defined a new form of competition, what he termed the humanitarian competition.

Makiguchi saw this shift not as merely representing a change in the venue or form of competition, but a qualitative transformation, from a winner-takes-all style of competition, to one conducted within a consciously acknowledged framework of cooperation, what today might be called a “win-win” mode of competition.

This concept of Humanitarian Competition, introduced by Makiguchi about one century ago, has been deepened and developed nowadays by Daisaku Ikeda, the current President of Soka Gakkai, with its Peace Proposal to the United Nations (2009)

Read the Article - http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Humanitarian_Competition:_a_key_paradigm_for_the_twenty-first_century

Read about Development Aidhttp://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Defining_Development

by Wilma Massucco

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