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He has been a familiar figure with USJ since Prof. João Lourenço was its first Rector, and we have grown accustomed to his discreet but unfailing presence in all of USJ’s community masses, graduations and other significant events. 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APPLY NOW

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The workshop focused on the following issues: 1)  Investment to improve the infrastructure of Goa (airport, sea port, railway, etc.); 2) Establishing direct flights between Macau and Goa or adjacent cities (Mumbai, etc.); 3) Promotion of financing facilities and business between the two cities/regions; 4) Promotion of tourism between Macau/Pearl River Delta region and Goa/adjacent regions; 5)  Promotion of cultural heritage studies between the two regions (keeping in mind that there are similar cities/regions in India, such as Damão and Diu); 6)  Promoting Portuguese language teaching and cultural studies between the two cities/regions; 7) Establishing a permanent nucleus in Macau to organize later this year an international conference on Macau-Goa relations and a possible extension in the future to other Portuguese speaking countries like Mozambique, Angola/South Africa and Brazil." 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The interaction of human society with wetlands to obtain multiple benefits-natural resources, amenities and environmental services such as ground water, fisheries, migratory birds habitat, etc. Anthropogenic stress due to the urban development and population growth has severely affected these ecosystems sustainability. Macao is situated in the bird migration route between Siberia and Australia. Every winter large numbers of migratory birds come to Macao to live. To conserve the wetland resource of Macao, several wetland reservation zones were set up and managed by Macao SAR government, and meanwhile continuous ecological monitoring of various habitats in these wetlands are carried out to ensure habitats and facilities meeting the needs of wildlife. Different types of management measures for each of the habitat types are developed and implemented, for the goal of providing the greatest quantity and highest quality of habitat possible to support waterfowl, other wildlife and plants, and to increase biodiversity. The Habitat Management Works can be divided into three aspects, namely the water, vegetation and mudflats. The lecture will explain the wetland management and biodiversity with wonderful video and photos, in order to make the student understanding the wetland’s ecological function easy. Short Bio Dr. Lei Kam Peng has a Ph.D. in civil and Environmental Engineering with more than 20 years of experiences as an educator, researcher and civil servant. He has published books and scientific papers in the fields of systems ecology, ecological engineering, environmental protection and many others. He also accomplished a significant amount of research in Macao’s local environment with current interest in the field of environmental economics and systems dynamics. 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From November 30 to December 11 2015 the United Nations Conference on Climate Change was held in Paris, France. As a result, 195 countries have adopted what is now known as the COP21 Paris agreement on global climate. This roundtable will discuss, from different perspectives, the terms of the agreement, the challenges for its implementation and its expected impact for environmental protection.

Speakers:

• David Gonçalves (USJ), “The COP21 Paris Agreement: what is it about?”
• Liu Jingjing (Macau Ricci Institute), "Chinese Perspectives on the COP21 Agreement".
• Franz Gassner (USJ), "The COP21 Agreement and Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudatu Si'"
• Diogo Teixeira (USJ), "Urban Challenges and Insights from COP 21 Agreement"

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Peter Stilwell and Pro-Rector Vincent Yang joined the Delegation of Senior Executives of Higher Education Institutions of Macao in a visit to Portugal and Germany during December 9-16, 2015. The delegation was led by Dr. Sou Chio Fai, Director of GAES, and Dr. Sílvia Ribeiro Osório Ho, Deputy Director of GAES, and consisted of 16 senior executives of 9 higher education institutions in Macau. The purposes of the visit were to understand the current status and systems of higher education in Portugal and Germany, introduce Macau’s HEIs to their counterparts in these two countries, and explore the possibilities of cooperation in education and scientific researches. In Portugal, the delegation visited three universities, namely University of Minhu, University of Porto, and University Nova de Lisbon. During the round table meetings, representatives from all three Portuguese university expressed strong interest in enhancing the relationship with Macau and exploring the market in Asia. . In addition, Rector Stilwell and Pro-Rector Yang paid a visit to Prof. Maria da Glória Garcia, Rector of Catholic University of Portugal. In Lisbon, while meeting with the Conselho Coordenador dos Institutos Superiores Politecnicos (Coordination Council of Polytechnics, on behalf of the MSAR government, Dr. Sou signed an agreement of cooperation with this department of the Portuguese government. The delegation also attended a workshop that was organized by the Champalimaud Foundation to introduce its cutting-edge world class medical research projects. Further, the delegation met with representatives of Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (A3E3, the accreditation agency of Portugal). In Germany, the delegation visited the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB) to discuss the government-dominated vocational education and training system in Germany. On the day prior to the return flight to Macau, the delegation attended a round table discussion at the privately owned Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. This visit to Europe provided great opportunities for the establishment and improvement of relationship between HEIs in Macau and in Portugal and Germany, which will prepare the ground for further development of cooperation among them.   " ["post_title"]=> string(54) "Rector Fr. 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Flourishing and healthy development (complementing the study of the unhealthy and pathological ones), constructive relational goods, Public Happiness, or positive conflict resolution, are examples of those orientations. Data from these studies brought a different and new light upon the specific arenas, and helped understand more broadly several individual and collective human processes. The theoretical and empirical implications of these alignments will be addressed in this Public Lecture, alongside with practical implications for the fields of Psychology and Education.   Speakers: Luís Miguel Neto is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon University. He received his EdD in Family Therapy from the University of Massachusetts, USA and a post-graduate degree on Systemic Family Therapy from Sevilla University in Spain. At the Psychology School, Lisbon University, where he was a professor for twenty nine years, he was responsible for the SAFI – a Family and Individual Outpatient Clinic that served the community on a free-of-charge basis and was also a training centre in Solutions-Oriented Brief Psychotherapy. Currently he is a full member of the Centre for Administration and Public Policy (CAPP), a Lisbon University Research Centre. He is a regular Visiting Professor at the North-West University in South Africa. Recently he launched the Platform for Public Happiness at Lisbon University, where he is the Scientific Coordinator of the Executive Master in Applied Positive Psychology. Helena Águeda Marujo is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon University, where she coordinates the Master Program in Human Resources Management. She is also the Executive Coordinator of the Executive Master in Applied Positive Psychology. 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In Memoriam

Robert Vincent Davis (1945-2015)

Dear staff and students,

Prof. Vincent Davis died peacefully last Thursday evening, in England, after a short illness. His family informed us immediately and added: “He was a rock to many people and his death shakes our foundations. He remained pragmatic, strong spirited and good humoured to the end. I hopeyou can join with us in a great sense of relief that he is at peace, and joy at a life well lived.”

Prof. Davis taught at USJ from at least 2003 to Januay 2012, and had just finished providing supervision to some of our PhD students when he ws taken ill.Prof. Keith Morrison who was his colleague for many years, kindly accepted to write the tribute below to help us honour his memory

Our thoughts and prayers are with Prof. Vin Davis and his wife Rosemary and daughter Amy.

May he rest in Peace.

Fr. Peter Stilwell (Rector)

* * *

It is with great sadness that I received the news of Vin Davis, who has died of cancer at age 70. Vin was a man of disarming intellect, warmth, compassion and concern for education. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK, he had the friendliness of a true Yor kshire man and an interest in everything around him.

Vin’s enthusiasm for education was infectious. I first met him in the early 1980s, when he came from having worked in Australia and subsequently as the Head of a Teachers’ Centre inKendal, UK, to join our team of academic staff at North Riding College of Education , Scarborough, now part of Hull University. He taught

Curriculum Studies, Environmental Studies and Sciece, and I remember himcarrying massive, heavy rock samples into the college library, for permanent exhibition. I recall with great affection the very many hours we spent discussing educational matth he had renovated virtually single-handedly, stone by stone, timber by timber), in a seaside fishingers, in the office which we shared, in his wonderful farmhou se home outside Scarborough (whvillage pub on the way back from off-campus degree teaching, and more recently at his home in York. His insights into education were piercing, complex, informed and articulate. I learned so much from Vin, and we were a very strong partnership in working togetheric

We both left Scarborough at different times, he to join Her Majesty’s Inspectorate (HMI), at a time when respect for HMI was very strong. He remained at HMI past the normal retirement age, as his expertise was valued greatly by his HMI colleagues.After his retirement from HMI he continued to sit on the governing body of a school in York. When I moved to Macau, I was delighted when Vin, sometimes alone and sometimes with his wife Rosemary, joinedus in Maau. He came on a part-time basis, subsequently with a Personal Chair in Education, to teach on Master’s, PhD and Diploma programmes at what was then the Inter-University Inst itute of Macau, now the University of Saint Joseph. However, he quickly broadened out his work in Ma cau, setting up a science network linked to a high-profil Science Centre in the UK, advising local schools o their science curricula and new laboratories, and joining the development of the schools’ inspectorate system and staff in the DSEJ.

Vin served for very many years, until the present, as a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Educational Research and Evaluation, formerly Evaluation and Research in Education. It is a measure of the man that, to my certain knowledge as Editor, he never, not once, turned down a request to review a paper for the journal. He was a rock-solid, reliable colleague.

Vin was a renowned geologist. In the field of implement petrology he was an acclaimed international expert on stone-age axes, a magnificent collection of which he had in his home, together with extremely noisy equipment in his garage for slicing thin section rock samples for microscopic inspection. He was the Chair and Chief Petrologist of the Implement Petrology Group in the UK. Recently he was a key figure in new research at Stonehenge. Heorganized conferences and leading publications in the field of implement petrology, and he took immense pleasure in publishing jointly with his scientist daughter. He was very frequently asked to conduct technical analysis on rock and axe samples by universities, and he was an external examiner for doctorate students in geology. His ‘Geology of Lakeland’ (UK)continues to be in print over 25 years since its first publication.Vin gave advice and comment to the Museums Service of Macau on the ancient stone-age and bronze-age artefacts in its collection.I have an abiding recollection of watching Vin and his daughter, Amy, poring over a rocky outcrop in Coloane, for close to an hour, engaged in deep discussion about its nature and origins. He would happily regale friends with stories of gabbro, hematite, crystal formations, fluorspar, and flint axe heads, and I used to send him rock samples from all over the world, which he would identify with incredible accuracy.

Vin had a love of life and lived it to the full. Who else would have driven a 1950s tractor across the side roads of northern England from West to East, from one home to another when he moved house? Who else would take a huge chainsaw across the English channel to renovate his house in France, or relish lunchtime oysters on a summer’s day by the riverside in Durham, UK, or stand in the open air on top of a three-storey house in York to replace a chimney stack? Who else would curl up in uncontrollable laughter at the thought of violent inner-city children singing innocent songs about a little red hen?

Vin had an unshakeable Catholic faith. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather, and nothing was too much for him to do for his family. At 195 centimetres tall, Vin was a huge man, big-hearted and a wonderful person. Thank you for your friendship. You have left us too soon. Requiescat in pace, Vincent.

Keith Morrison

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They were warmly received by Director General Li Nan of Department of Public Diplomacy and Information, Director General Zhang Jian of International Organizations and Legal Affairs Department, and Deputy Director General Li Yang of Policy Research Department and other officials. The Director Generals delivered presentations on a series of special topics, ranging from hot issues relating to current foreign policies of China, foreign affairs relating to Macau, international conventions and laws applicable to Macau, as well as the main functions and work of the Office in Macau. Among the visitors were Ambassador Carlos Frota, Dean Jose Alves of Faculty of Administration and Leadership, Dean Ana Correia of Faculty of Education and Psychology and other professors, Director Teresa Loon of Office of Student Affairs, and students from bachelor, master and doctoral programs. Over half of them are international faculties and students. 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The students enjoyed the visit to the Office and believed that it helped them better understand the foreign policies of China as well as the learning of international law and the Basic Law of Macau. 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1. In November 2012, the Catholic Foundation for Higher Education, title holder of USJ, signed the contract with HCCG Guilding and Civil Engineering (Macau) Limited (Hsin Chong) to build the campus.
2. In June 2015, USJ was approached by a company from Mainland China, sub-subcontractor's of the construction work, who made serious claims against a subcontractor. The contact took place at the time of some demonstrations by workers at the site reported by the press.
3. At the present moment, there is an ongoing dispute between Hsin Chong and the subcontractor, Iao Sang, and the agreement between the two companies was terminated by Hsin Chong in October.
4. However, never have the public funds allocated to this project been at risk. The contract with Hsin Chong is particularly strict in this matter. Payments are made exclusively for work which has been completed. The work is then verified by the technical staff of MPS and the costs claimed by Hsin Chong are checked through in detail and certified by SWEETT, a quantity surveyor based in Hong Kong. These two companies have their own contract with the Catholic Foundation, and are therefore independent of the constructor.
5. Each invoice submitted by Hsin Chong, accompanied by the technical report from MPS and the certification by SWEETT, is delivered to the donors, Macau Foundation and the Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ).
6. At the end of every phase of the project, the accounts are audited by certified public accounting firm and delivered to Macao Foundation which, for its part, periodically sends its own technical staff to campus to check the information provided.
7. Over the past months, the construction has never been halted and, according to information received today (4 November), there are currently 400 people working on the site – the activity is clear to any passerby.

The project has suffered delays, but present estimates by our technical advisors continue to indicate that it will be possible for the College and the University to use the new campus for the 2016-2017 academic year.   4 November 2015 Public Relations Office University of Saint Joseph" ["post_title"]=> string(42) "Facts about USJ and CDSJ Ilha Verde Campus" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(42) "facts-about-usj-and-cdsj-ilha-verde-campus" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2015-11-05 14:40:44" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2015-11-05 06:40:44" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(49) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=news&p=8127" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "news" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [19]=> object(WP_Post)#3770 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(8120) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2015-10-30 09:01:25" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2015-10-30 01:01:25" ["post_content"]=> string(2685) " About the Talk The Cape Verde Archipelago (eastern middle Atlantic) comprises 10 major islands (9 inhabited) and some islets with a volcanic origin and formed along a period of more than 26 millions of years. However, since its discovery in the 15^th Century, volcanic activity has been observed only at Fogo Island, with written accounts of 27 eruptive events. The 3 last eruptions occurred in 1951, 1995 and 2014-2015, with the last one having been accompanied by the author, as member of a volcanological mission of the Universidade de Lisboa. The emitted lavas during the 2014-15 eruption occupied an area of circa 4.7 km², corresponding to an approximate volume of 4 x 10⁷ m³, almost completely destroying the villages of Portela and Bangaeira, this one located at some 5 km from the volcanic vent. Besides the description of the eruption and its consequences, the causes of the Cape Verde volcanism will be discussed. The “eminent” birthing of a new island will be also mentioned.   About the Speaker  João Mata (born in Mozambique) is Associate Professor at the Departamento de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (http://www.fc.ul.pt/), where he obtained his PhD (1997) and his Habilitation (2007). At the Universidade de Lisboa he teaches courses in the areas of Igneous Petrology, Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry. He is research member of the Associated Laboratory “Institute Dom Luiz” (http://idl.ul.pt) where he develops activity mainly centred on the origin of volcanic and plutonic rocks. In the last 10 years a significant part of his research activity had as focus the study of Cape Verde magmatism. He publishes regularly scientific papers in some of the most important scientific journals of Petrology and Geochemistry. 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