NOVA Newsletter No 6, 2006-01-25

Anniversary book - NOVA during 1995-2005
Do you want to read about the NOVA milestones during 1995-2005 as well as see what lies ahead of us all?
On the NOVA site, http://www.nova-university.org, you can from now on, read excerpts from the book and order your own copy of NOVA 10 Years.

NOVA Prize 2006
Every year the NOVA Prize will be awarded to a person, who is working at one of the NOVA member universities, and with considerable efforts has developed and increased the Nordic cooperation. The amount of the NOVA Prize is 3.000 euro. Deadline for nomination is April 21, 2006. Read more on www.nova-university.org/4nov_news4_miscel_prize.htm

NOVA-SNS seminar
During two days in November, a part of the Nordic and Baltic forestry sector gathered in Alnarp around the subject "Research training networks in forestry - ways of organising/financing", a seminar arranged by NOVA and SNS. The purpose of the seminar was to present and inform about the joint efforts to stimulate and facilitate the establishment of Nordic/Baltic doctoral courses in the perspective of organisation, money and goals.
Read more on this link www.nova-university.org/4nov_news4_miscel_novasns.htm

Evaluation of NOVA
The time has now come for NOVA to be evaluated and it is planned to occur in the first half of 2006. The external evaluation will be carried out by Prof. Cees M. Karssen, former Rector of Wageningen University & Research Centre in The Netherlands. It is expected that the evaluation will give an objective picture of NOVA UN collaboration during the whole period 1995 to 2005 (with special emphasis on the strategy-period from 2004), analyse the present status and provide recommendations for future development.