NGOs professionals,
researchers and scholars :
Options :
Non- Academic Tours&Study
Incoming EU- Research Students
Incoming
Asian NGOs/HEIs Trainees or
Students
Non- Academic Tours&Study
Non-
Academic Participants or self-sponsored Research
Students / Scholars who may be interested to
come to Nepal, Tibet/China and India, for a personalized
project Itinerary within selected resources of Cairn
Consortium Network, should apply directly with a more
simple application form, which can be found at :
https://cairn-erasmus.tripod.com/applic.html
Incoming EU- Research Students
This
information is for European students wishing to find out
more about study and life in Nepal within Cairn
Euro-Asian exchange Programme. Regarding Academic registration of trainees or research
students for the year 2004/2005, EU- candidates
should fill in the Application Form, Transcript of Records and Learning Agreement (please, ask
your local Supervisor). The responsible EU
University should send the 3 documents by e-Mail
only to CAIRN CEO, a mimimum of three months before
arrival in KTM, and even more practicaly within 6
months before arrival for research field-study, if
possible. Such documents must be duly signed by the
Departmental Coordinator of the EU Home Institution.
Students who arrive at CAIRN/SXC Nepal HQ without having
sent before the above documents duly signed, may not be
accepted.
EU students
will submit a Certification from their EU Home
Institution concerning the period that they wish to
study/research in the Host Institution in Asia/Nepal.
The Cairn CEO (International Relations Office) will send
the Certification, Biodata and the student's
registration form to the concerned resource in
KTM. The student is then registered to the concerned
Unit within the conditions he/she qualifies
for.
CAIRN also organizes non-credit specialization
field-study certificates in Nepal / Tibet Himalayan Region for clinical
professionals and scholars.
Please, do not hesitate to
contact us for any question or querry
email at: leon@sped.ucl.ac.be
Incoming
Asian NGOs/HEIs Trainees or
Students
This
information is for Non-European Union / Asian trainees
or students wishing to find out more about study and
life in the EU or Canadian Cairn Campus Student Exchange
Network.
How
to apply:
Applications for international exchange
must include the following:
- A completed
‘Application form for Exchange students in the EU or
Canada (Please note that your personal projzect
transcript for your application form will be especially
discussed with you during interviews online or
face-to-face before application form is finalized).
Please take direct contact with RWL at: leon@sped.ucl.ac.be
- Tape or
portfolio to determine the student’s work and academic
standing (see ‘Biodata’).
- A transcript
of records with information on grades and credits of
previous and current higher education.
- A letter of
motivation
- A letter of
recommendation
- A signature of
approval of the person responsible for international
exchange at your home institution.
- Visa
requirements check-list either for EU or Canada (incl.
proof of financial means).
Membership
All students, researchers,
scholars, NGO trainees and academic members have a
dedicated account manager, whose role it is to
understand your personal project aims and resources,
your contextual needs and eventually your organisation’s
perspective, so as to ensure that you will be benefiting
from the full potential of your membership.
Full details of our membership
scheme can be found from direct contact with RWL (Cairn
CEO) at CAIRN Consortium email : leon@sped.ucl.ac.be
We trust you will find them exciting and look
forward to welcoming you as a new
member.
Student
Membership
Complimentary
Student Memberships are available to all
postgraduate students who register at any Cairn
Consortium network institution. In addition, the
academic member may nominate for complimentary student
membership any number of students within any department
using the Options presented at Cairn Postgraduate Menu.
Graduate students can join
by filling out the
Student Membership Application, which will be sent
by email. Department chairs or any regular members of
Cairn Consortium may nominate undergraduate students for
complimentary membership by sending the student's name,
postal mailing address, and e-mail address to : leon@sped.ucl.ac.be
BENEFITS OF
COMPLIMENTARY STUDENT MEMBERSHIP:
-
Networking with Europe
and Asian peers, faculty, and professionals in the
field
-
Visibility in the
applied Psychology and Cross-cultural Psychotherapy
R&D community
-
Access to cutting edge
ICT-VLE cross-cultural pedagogy research
-
Resources for
identifying and developing career options in Asia
-
Free membership in Cairn
Intervention Research Activity Group
-
Free subscription to
Cairn Newsletter (print)
-
Free subscription to
Cairn Newsletter (electronic)
-
30% discount on all
Cairn publications
-
10% discount on up to
four (4) students/trainees any number of Cultural
Immersion schemes in Nepal and India. (one month
duration minimum)
-
Eligibility to serve on
CAIRN Consortium Members committees
All students, regardless of
membership status, are eligible for reduced registration
rates to attend Cairn Psychotherapy Experiential
Training Seminars & Conferences in the
EU.
Cairn International
Studies
Cairn
International Studies will improve European students'
ability to work in an increasingly globalized environment in
Nepal and surrounding Asia. The goal is to prepare European students
and trainees for focused
international tasks, promote interactive and communicative
skills and encourage an open and receptive attitude towards the
Himalayan region ethnic cultures. Cairn Euro-Asian Network will
further increase opportunities for internships, field-research
and online studies within an international dimension and with
selected international experts cooperation.
Cairn Cross-Cultural Awareness
program stresses that for
an Euro-Asian cross-cultural training to be effective as an
enhancement for an international development organization, it must deal with several
complexities in the learning process, including that of
providing flexible options for genuine Projects-based Cultural Immersion. Just
providing
information, or some online courses, is not an effective approach for
the future Euro-Asian relations, beyond that of a basic introductory level.
Cairn believes that such training
should be an interactive intercultural process, through the
use of flexible training modules being a menu of
Cultural Immersion Options organized in strategic target-sites,
where the behavioral situation, case studies, scenarios, critical incidents,
catharsis and crisis resolution, will bring participants and
beneficiaries
focused and longterm results.
Cairn is also launching a stepwise
development of a Mixed Mode Postgraduates and Masters ECDL/ECTS
Certification centered around disciplines initiated from the EU
partners units and linked with the pressing issues of Nepal/Asian
LDCs Development Management. This unique mode of study allows
students the flexibility to study through a combination of
residential home courses in the EU, field-study in Asia, group
sessions and flexible distance learning. The recommended
pattern of study starting in 2004/2005 is currently under-design,
for the following options.
General Programme Options
(*)
(c) RWL
2004-05 (adapted draft-
only)
Cairn international
collaboration programs with selected European and Asian
High education Institution (HEI) Units join the
contemplative philosophy practices of awareness with a 21st century global citizenship
intervention. Cairn
approaches international education from a wide perspective
being useful to both students, trainees and the local
target- communities - one that includes the ethics, intellect, intuitive insight,
motivation, clairvoyance, and a willingness to explore with mind and
heart together. Studying and living overseas fosters
intercultural competence, critical thinking, and the ground
for compassionate engagement with the world.
Cairn Options offer opportunities for
strategic sites exploration, indepth needs diagnosis,
seeking of remedials, as well as vision and growth at
the personal, community and professional level. Our programs are designed
to meet a variety of interests and needs - from
Introduction Certificates (ECTS/ECDL) upto
Postgraduate Masters and intensive training seminars to expand your field of
work and
enrich your every day.
Cairn Fall 2004-05 Highlights
Menu include:
General
Programme
Options / Click on Options for more details
Cross-cultural Awareness
Volunteer Programme
The Cairn Euro-Asian
Cross-cultural Awareness
Volunteer Programme has a genuine
cross-cultural immersion learning and research
experience as its main goal. As an
innovative initiative in Euro-Asia university and High
Education Institutions (HEIs) linkages, this
platform is widely regarded as timely and
appropriate, provided that key element of its strategy
be refocused as much on the future of sustainable and
relevant high education exchange niches, than addressing Asian LDCs pressing priorities and bringing
more awareness on Nepal dramatic current issues. This
innovative programme is accordingly the only one of its
kind, which links European researchers with
strategic sites selected in the Himalayan region and
places them accordingly at grassroots in a most
favourable position to assess the prospectives of Asia.
While on the one hand, it addresses the future relations
of Europe with Asia LDCs emerging economies and the
result of imported development policies, Cairn also
seeks for innovative, beneficial and ethical personal
development avenues within the rich traditional,
philosophical and cultural heritage of the Himalayas,
which as tools in terms of attitude, knowledge and
decision-making process may lead to better
understanding, mutual respect and
collaboration.
With activities being
organized under the legal umbrella of registered local
HEIs and non-profit organizations
(NGOs), such
as the St-Xavier Campus(SXC), St-Xavier's Social Services
Center
(SXSSC), Nepal Institute for
Health Science (NIHS), RECID (TU/IOM), KUNPHEN Tibetan
Medical Center, KAILASH Tibetan Medical Center (Amchi
Jampa), and/or other
selected intervenors and community
support groups, Cairn offers a unique choice of true
experiential and professional
opportunities for thesis researchers, postgraduate
students, professionals and/or international
volunteers, including the possibility to enjoy the
amazing beauty of the Himalayan region nature,
rich culture and real involvement with people in daily
life.
Given that this programme is fundamentally about
creating and expanding new and sustainable structural
opportunities for students, researchers and trainees to
share and upgraded their knowledge, attitude and
awarenness, it will remain flexible and based upon
students projects,
within a
Menu of Open Learning ECTS/ECDL Options. While the
present set of priorities range from ‘Human Resource
Development’ (HRD), ‘e-Marketing Online Curriculum
Development’ and other technical market-driven
categorisations, emphasis is being brought to
cover areas being: Social/Health Anthropology, Clinical
Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Ethnomedicine, Drug Abuse
Counselling Training, Tsa-rLung Tibetan Medicine
Energotherapy, Tantras, Philosophy,
Languages, Arts & Humanities, Investigation
Journalism and other more precise topics which may be
developed without limitations by students or trainees in
order to address their objectives.
Responding to the needs of future relations
between Europe and Asia, Cairn Erasmus will seek,
encourage and support Projects that reflect the urgent
need for more awareness on LDCs priorities. For doing
so, it has taken steps since several years to gather a
core of respected/experienced EU and Asian scholars and
interveners, who all are involved on a daily basis in
universities and NGOs services in/with least developed
Asian countries (LDC) and who bring the much needed
constructive but critical appraisal tools and resources
for an effective cooperation. While focusing on the
evaluation of the past for fostering the future, Cairn
original approach is in the two-fold nature of its
Curriculum Options studying as much the European and
Asian spiritual heritage values, than personality or
modern e-technology.
Following the recent European
Commission decisions, the new Erasmus Mundus
programme
partnerships will be developed to strengthen
European/Asian co-operation and international links in
higher education by supporting high-quality
European/Asian Joint-curriculum Masters
Courses, enabling students and visiting scholars to
engage in postgraduate study
at European universities, as well as by
encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students
and scholars towards third Asian
countries.
The CAIRN new scheme will proceed using both
Cultural Immersion (Tour&Study) in selected
strategic sites in Asia, as well as the usual
combination of online courses, lectures, seminars, group
work and practical fieldwork, including a dissertation.
Students will be continuously assessed by tutors online
on the basis of their essays, report writing and
presentation of portfolios. There are no examinations
for this programme, as the final aim is based on
personalized experiential and tailored project which
fulfilment will require genuine and continuous efforts
on the ground...
Strategic Asian Target-site(s)
Location
Situated in the strategic site of Boddhnath
Stupa ( KTM Valley Nepal), itself a crossroad
and
a renown
pilgrimage powerplace, Cairn Consortium is at the core
of the Himalayan region outstanding beauty, as well as
immerged into local religious, cultural, commercial and
(post-) development issues. As a Regional HEIs/NGOs
Network, Cairn also has other selected partners located in North
India (Sarnath, Varanasi, Delhi and Tsopema HP), Tibet -
TAR (Nyalam, Lhasa, Kham) and China (Shanghai),
Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and
Bali...
From their learning, seeing, talking, listening,
practicing, experiencing, travelling and discussing –
Cairn programme participants will emerge from their stay
with a different view of Asia, of their home country and
also perhaps of themselves. For some, this will
have been their first encounter with Nepalese, Tibetans
or Chinese, and they will return home with much to
ponder. Perhaps for some others the greatest reward will
have been the friendships established with other
participants, and with the local people and youth they
got to know. Regardless of the respective
backgrounds, Cairn will have been a meeting place for
some of the brightest and most interesting students and
will be remembered and valued for the rest of their
lives.
CAIRN Innovative
Pedagogy
(Tentative Itinerary &
Process)
During 28 days minimum and to upto 4-5 months
maximum, motivated high school students or researchers
being gathered from various parts of Canada, UK, the
United States and Europe, will come to Bodhanath Stupa -
KTM to live, study, practices and travel together in the
whole of the Himalayan range, exploring a very different
culture and lifestyle, and a very different perceptions
of people and themselves. They will experience
both the traditions and changes that make the Stupa of
Bodhanath so distinctive and so important for being able
to grasp and understand insights of the present things,
and things to come, in a variety of ways enabling them
to understand what they see.
Participants will choose from a wide variety of
online
courses,
or bring a personal research theme, allowing them to
gain an understanding of some of the key concepts,
background and methodology of some of the controversial
topics that are at the forefront of the changes sweeping
through Nepal, Tibet, China and India. From the meeting
of these prerequisite with their experiential, they will
be in position to appreciate the deep traditions and
history that underlie everything that happens in the
Himalayan region and around.
Students and researchers will work with
qualified NGOs experts, academic tutors of repute and
the young local generation to undertake different field
studies and investigate for themselves the key issues of
their projects. Coaching, supervision and daily
briefings, sometimes discussed in classes is an
important aspect of the quality of experiential. Through
extensive opportunities they will meet and talk with a
wide range of people, from lamas, artists, businessmen,
NGOs or HEIs officials, to ordinary shopkeepers, youth
and workers, by visiting villages, urban homes, SMEs
small enterprise workplaces, local NGOs, monasteries,
temples, schools, they will compare what they learn in
class with what they experience themselves. This
combination of high-level academic instruction with
project-based investigative learning, discussions and
debates, and online broadband interaction with database
online is what will make Cairn programme a unique
opportunity, in a unique place.
Face to face language tutorials in Nepalese,
Indi, Tibetan and/or Chinese are made available as options for
those who seek the abilities which will allow them to
share, understand, develop, or hone their skills in
close contact with local people.
Demolition of the old and construction of the
new are everywhere, including the effects of the ongoing
Maoists insurgency. This is the time to register what
Nepalese, Tibetan and Chinese people are feeling, living
through and hoping for now. Students will forever
be referring to this experience by saying, "When I
studied there, this is what Nepal was
like…."
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