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Exchanged Programmes
In order to encourage
the development of administrative expertise among officers
of its member organisations, IFSSO established a fellowship
programme enabling officers of member organisations to visit
other memb er
organisations and study relevant procedures and aspects of
program administration and policy impleme ntation.
Within the framework of this programme, which is called Administrative
Visitors Fellowship Programme, IFSSO normally awards one fellowship
per year, enabling the awarded to undertake a study trip of
two to four weeks.
Every second year,
IFSSO organizes a General Conference in connection with the
ordinary session of its General Assembly.
The themes of the General Conference are normally either broad
topics of concern and relevance to the social sciences, such
as International Cooperation in the Social Sciences (1979),
the social sciences on the Threshold of the Eighties (1981),
or more concrete and policy related topics like the Impact
of social Science research and Teaching on Social and Economic
Policies, with Special Regard to Development Policies (1983),
Social Change and the Role of the Social Sciences and Resource
Allocation to Social Science Research (1985), Impact of New
technologies on Society (1987), Changes in Academic Policy-Social
Sciences in a Changing World (1989), Social Sciences and the
Environment (1991), Towards the Building of Global Society
through Sound Development: Social Consequences (1993), Coordination
and Cooperation in Global Society (1995), Regimes in Transition
(1997), Interface of Social Science & Technology (1999),
Globalization and Political Culture (2001), Environmental
Protection and Regional Development (2003), and Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Cultural and Minorities in the Process of
Globalization (2004).
The General Conferences are attended not only by representatives
of the IFSSO membership, but also by a number of observers
from national, regional and international organisations. Whereas
the first conferences traditionally took place in Paris, IFSSO
has now adopted the policy of holding its conferences in different
regions, in particular in the less developed countries. This
gives the possibility of supporting the social sciences in
a particular region or country, and it bears the advantage
of establishing a contact with local social science circles.
In addition to its General Conferences, it is part of IFSSO
programme to stimulate and sponsor international workshops
seminars organized by or upon request of one or a group of
its members.
The VIIth General Assembly of IFSSO, held in 1993, stimulated
the IFSSO Board Members to establish the IFSSO Prize of Professor
Dr. Takashi Fujii for Originality in the Social Sciences.
The main prize is a certificate and silver medal; the additional
Prize is us$5,000. The winner of the prize delivers an honour
speech at the General Conference of IFSSO. The prize, financed
by professor Fujii himself, has been awarded every two years
from 1993-2003, to a specific contribution published in any
past period. The aims of the prize are:
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to encourage original achievements
in the social sciences, with originality assessed in relation
with the needs of the IFSSO member Countries and Regions,
and with the important of the contributions for both the
neighboring areas and the rest of the world; |
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to attract the interest of valuable
scholars on such achievements; and |
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to collect information about
original contributions in the social sciences. |
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Applicants’
contributions must be in one of the following areas: (a) recommendations
for national or regional sound development; (b) experience
of policy planning and planning administration for national
and regional sound development. The members of IFSSO pre-select
and recommend the applicants. The Officers of IFSSO Executive
Board Members serve as the Selection Committee which is empowered
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