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Riine Tiigi, Marketing Manager, Estonian Convention Bureau Did you know that... + Tartu is often considered the intellectual centre of Estonia, especially since it is home to the University of Tartu, founded in 1632. Tartu is also – tongue-in-cheek – known as "Athens of the Emajõgi" or as "Heidelberg of the North"? + the University of Tartu belongs to the top 3% of world's best universities? + 20% of Tartu´s population are students? Read more! "Transcend disciplinary boundaries" Louise Röska-Hardy, executive secretary of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) In one week your 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) will kick off. Please give us an idea about two or three topics to be discussed. Social cognition, which concerns the processes involved in how individuals think about themselves and others, will be the focus of several lectures and sections. Questions concerning the role specific cognitive processes play in our social interactions will be discussed from different theoretical perspectives. One plenary lecture will present recent empirical research on the character of the neurocognitive mechanisms that enable cultural inheritance, e.g. social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, and... Read more! Important conferences UIA RT Asia 29-30/09/2015 Bangkok More UIA RT Europe 13/11/2015 Brussels More Important shows ibtm china 05-06/08/2015 Beijing More IMEX America 13-15/10/2015 Las Vegas More Number of the month Centenary. The Yearbook of International Organizations lists 18 currently active international organizations celebrating their centenary in 2015. Another four organizations have 200 years of activity to celebrate. The Yearbook already includes two organizations founded in 2015. At the other end of the scale, looking at the religious orders included in the Yearbook and still active, one has its 300th birthday this year, and two go back 800 years. New associations Civil Society for the Renewal of European Democracy (Europe+) http: //euplus. org International Windship Association (IWSA) http: //wind-ship. org Mladiinfo International http: //network. mladiinfo. eu/ feedback print unsubscribe subscribe imprint