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28th July 2014 Montreal, Canada
Geeky Farmers – The Agriculture of the Future
What if you could control your backyard smallholding (“potage”) sitting on your couch? This is indeed feasible! Last week the Science and Innovation Network in Montreal teamed up with Prof. Viacheslav (Slava) Adamchuk from McGill University and organized the first UK-Canada Workshop in Precise Farming. The farming landscape has changed significantly, and entered a new […]
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28th July 2014 Dublin, Ireland
UK and Poland: strong collaboration in the past and present times
On 4th July we celebrated some remarkable Polish, French and British individuals and some equally remarkable trilateral collaboration between our three countries. Breaking the Enigma code undoubtedly saved thousands of lives and shortened the war. And the Polish contribution was crucial. The history of how Enigma came to be broken has been shrouded in mystery. […]
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28th July 2014 Islamabad, Pakistan
A childhood for every child
One of the themes running through my work during my time in Pakistan has been supporting the courageous women and men working for women’s empowerment and equality and an end to violence against women in Pakistan. Violent conflict is perhaps the greatest “anti-development” driver a country can face. Pakistan has not only suffered 40-50,000 deaths […]
25th July 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 14-20 July 2014
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25th July 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 7-13 July 2014
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25th July 2014 Paris, France
Have a wonderful holiday in France!
Now we’re in the summer season, millions of British people, literally, come to France every year, and almost everyone has a wonderful holiday. That’s obviously what we want in the Embassy as well.
25th July 2014
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Consular Responsibility
A major area of work for any British Embassy or High Commission is consular responsibility: looking after British nationals when they’re abroad. This is one of the three priority aims of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – together with protecting national security and building prosperity (our foreign policy as a whole is geared towards strengthening […]
24th July 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
BRICS Week Part 03 – Guest blog by Chevening India network
As the third and last part of our Chevening BRICS conversation, I am delighted to share a piece by Mr Tarun Singhal, currently Director Enterprise, Business and Strategic Alliance and Partnerships at Steria and who was in the Chevening Advanced Management Programme for Young Indian IT Professionals in 2000-2001 at the Manchester Business School. The […]
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23rd July 2014
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Making a reality of the common good
There are many definitions of “the common good”. It is an idea born from early Christian thought, especially the writing of St Augustine, and a key concept of Catholic Social Teaching. As a phrase, it is used regularly by successive Popes, including Pope Francis, to describe a worthy objective of man’s strivings in society. A […]
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23rd July 2014 Los Angeles, USA
Dreams, Discovery, and Space Missions
Earlier this month I had the chance to fulfill a dream I’d had since I was a kid: seeing an actual rocket launch into space. Specifically, the launch of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) aboard a Delta II rocket at the U.S. Vandenberg Air Force Station in California. Following the 2009 failure of OCO-1, the high […]
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