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Mr. Danny Wong, head of Public Education and Ms. Candy Chan, Head of Marketing at World Vision Macau shared the history of World Vision and its early beginnings in the poverty alleviation mission that began in the 1950s by its founder Dr. Bob Pierce.  The talk was attended by Prof. Alex Lobo Marques, Coordinator for the Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA and Prof. Douty Diakite, Coordinator of the Center for Social and Legal Studies, Emil Marques and Year 4 Government Studies Students.

The talk covered the current stay of poverty in the world and also some of the programmes and approaches taken by World Vision.  These programmes included Child Sponsorship Programme, Area Development Programme and famine alleviation.  In addition, students were engaged in comparing life of a youth in Macao and Malawi, Africa which hit home the disparities between rich and poor in this world.

World Vision has also developed over the years, various publications and field guides for those interested to take part in development of capacity building and community development programmes.  The students of USJ Building Communities Class benefited tremendously in the knowledge exchange and obtained first-hand information from the field on exactly how to make a difference in poverty-stricken communities through the words of the practitioner.

USJ School of Business continues to promote an entrepreneurial spirit in its students in the development of innovative learning experiences to foster socially responsible leaders of tomorrow.

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Besides, the professors of the Department of Psychology of the FSS will provide supervision to the counsellors of the ARTM Treatment Centre." 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The first time this document was signed was in 18^thof September 1988, in Bologna. At the time, 388 rectors signed the document, marking the increased awareness of the crucial role universities have in the development and internationalisation of society. In the celebration of the 30^th anniversary of Magna Charta Universitatum, in 18^th of September 2018, USJ confirmed its adherence. In this year’s edition of the annual event, 73 universities of 29 countries signed the document, which means the document, currently, has the backing of over 800 universities. The event was held at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, also in commemoration of the 800^th anniversary of the university, and included the presence of distinguished guests such as their royal highnesses King Felipe VI of Spain and the Queen Letizia. 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Para o efeito, serão convidados os reitores das instituições do ensino superior do Interior da China, das regiões de Hong Kong e de Macau, dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e os dirigentes das entidades de formação de língua portuguesa, que explorarão, em conjunto, as perspectivas e as oportunidades de desenvolvimento do ensino superior, sob a iniciativa “Uma Faixa, Uma Rota”. Além disso, a realização do Fórum, também, será simultânea com a realização da “Reunião Conjunta sobre a Cooperação entre a Província de Jiangsu, as Universidades de Macau e dos Países de Língua Portuguesa”, do Departamento de Educação da Província de Jiangsu, a fim de exercer efeitos sinérgicos. Assim, espera-se que possam ser criadas, através da realização destas actividades, mais e melhores condições para a cooperação nos vários aspectos. 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ABOUT THE TALK

The experience in Portugal in Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs) has been extensive with huge implications in public finances and political discussion. PPPs are also responsible for a significant increase in infrastructure development in Portugal in the 90s to this date. The experience in Portugal is a showcase for this rapid catching up in the infrastructure gap, but also a showcase of procurement and public contracting with dire implications in public finances. Portugal is also a great example in renegotiation of these contracts and adjustment to more fiscal responsibility. The public lecture will provide several cases of successful, and unsuccessful experiences in road building, healthcare management, and environment management.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Prof. Ricardo Ferreira Reis is Invited Assistant Professor of Accounting, Associate Dean for International Affairs and the Director of Centre of Applied Studies at the Portugal Catholic University, Lisbon. Prof. Reis holds a PhD in Business Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania, USJ and a Licenciatura in Economics from the University of Porto.

Prof. Reis teaches Financial Accounting at the MBA, Undergraduate and Executive Education levels. His areas of interest in research are based on informational economics, with an emphasis on Accounting, ranging from agency theory to corporate governance. He has previously taught Cos and Financial Accounting and a wide range of courses in Economics and Business. Prof. Reis was a consultant for the then Lisbon Stock Exchange and the Porto. Derivatives Exchange and he worked as a credit risk analysis for investment banking earlier in his career.

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MRI Public Forum

“Silence”, Endo Shusaku and Japanese Christian History

By Dr. Ayako Fukushima

Language: English

Date | Time: Wednesday 10 October 2018| 6:30 pm

Venue: Gratia Hall 宏恩堂, The St. Joseph Seminary 聖若瑟修院

Address: St. Joseph Seminary, Largo de Santo Agostinho 5, Macau

地址：澳門崗頂前地5號

RSVP:

E-mail: forums@riccimac.org | Contact No.: (853) 2853 2536.

Please reserve your seat before Tuesday 9 October 2018.

  About the topic: The novel “Silence 沈黙” became popular again in 2017 as the movie directed by Martin Scorsese was released worldwide. The film based on a novel by Shusaku Endo and published in 1966 requires a lot of background knowledge of the history of Japan, the history of the Church in Japan, the Hidden Christians as well as of Shusako Endo in order to truly understand the rich meaning of both the novel and the movie.   More on the Speaker Dr. Ayako Fukushima

• Assistant Professor of Kyushu University (九州大学) in Japan.
• Visiting scholar at the Centre for Catholic Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from the summer of 2018 to the spring of 2019.

  Major research: The history of the Catholic Church in Japan and in Hong Kong. The current major research topic : The maintenance activities by lay Catholics and architectural study of Catholic churches in Japan and Hong Kong.   Major publications of the speaker

• Ayako Fukushima, “Laity Involvement in Catholic Church Buildings of Hong Kong: Interpretation within Religious, Social and Political Contexts from the 1950s to 2015,” PhD dissertation, Kyushu University, 2016.
• Ayako Fukushima and Yoshitake Doi. “The Catholic Building Professional Advisory Group and its Spirituality: Laity Involvement in Church Building System of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong” Journal of Architecture and Planning, 80 [708], 429-439, 2015.
• Ayako Fukushima and Yoshitake Doi. “The Building Process and the Laity Involvement of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Wanchai, Hong Kong: Church building system of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong” Journal of Architecture and Planning, 78 [688], 1431-1440, 2013.
• Ayako Fukushima, Junne Kikata, Tadashi Takao, Hisashi Shibata. “Preserving the “Shell” and Regenerating the spirit –Case Study of Christian churches in islands in the Japan”, Proceedings of ICOMOS 2008: 16^th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium, 2008.

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Dr Wilfred Wong, President of Sands China Limited, Ms. Wen Hongyan, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Ms. Winnie Wong, Vice President of Corporate Communications & Community Affairs, presented a cheque of Sands China Limited Fellowships to Prof. Alvaro Barbosa, Vice Rector of University of Saint Joseph on 19th September 2018. The Sands China Limited has been our supporter to USJ Scholarships and Fellowships since 2010.

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USJ Congregation for Master’s and Doctoral Degrees 聖若瑟大學碩士及博士學位畢業典禮 Cerimónia de Entrega de Diplomas de Mestrado e Doutoramento da USJ

Date and Time | 日期及時間 | Data e Hora 22nd September 2018, 10:30am | 二零一八年九月廿二日 上午十時半 | 22 de Setembro, às 10:30

Venue | 地點 | Local Ilha Verde Campus | 青洲校舍 | Campus da Ilha Verde

Address | 地址 | Endereço 青洲河邊馬路14-17號 | Estrada Marginal da Ilha Verde, 14-17

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Classes will be resumed on Tuesday 18 September." 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On September 1, USJ’s School of Business conducted its annual MBA Student Orientation Day. In addition to introducing the new students to facets of the MBA, the day, which was facilitated by the MBA Coordinator Prof Michael Trimarchi also placed an emphasis on coaching the new group of students through various topics such as developing a learning mindset, group work, and case study analysis.

The library was also represented by Francis Nwachukwu, who presented an introduction to the USJ e-library resources.

As Prof Trimarchi explained: “it was a day of fun and hard work, and as always I’m looking forward to working with this new group of students as they progress through their MBA studies”.

Good luck to the MBA cohort of 2018-2019!

Working together to complete the case study exercise.

Lunch was enjoyed by all!

Francis Nwachukwu introduces the e-library resources to the new students.

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This talk presents a framework to characterize representative performances by experienced pianists in order to determine main influential trends in performance, derived specifically from traditional piano practices referred to as National Piano Schools. The methodology of this exploratory research departs from a musicological empirical analysis in articulation with recent technological developments for metric methods. It allowed an analysis of gesture and musical semantics by applying a multimodal approach for capturing the pianist performance based on the extraction of features’ sets specifically targeted to each piano school. This technique combines acquisition of capture of movement and post-processing of data (it can appear as two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects) 9 pianists playing on a Disklavier Piano (Yamaha Grand Piano that provides logic data from finger stroke pressure) using MOCAP (Motion Capture). The figures extracted from MOCAP device show amplitudes (percentiles) for each pianist, on each piano piece performed, 4 piano mainstream repertoire works which have been chosen for the tests with the 9 pianists. The extraction of features continued, different percentiles calculated on the trajectories of different points of the body, on each axis allowing to compare pianists and reveal their national piano schools.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sofia Lourenço is a pianista and piano Professor at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts at Porto (Portugal). She received the Doctor Degree of Music and Musicology by the University of Évora on “Tendencies of European Piano Interpretation Schools”. She is dedicated to the dissemination of Portuguese music from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, having recorded 4 solo piano CD’s. she coordinated at CITAR the Musical Studies research group at CITAR (UCP) and has been supervising several Masters and PhD candidates.

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