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THE CARPATHIAN EUROREGION

THE CARPATHIAN EUROREGION

Author(s): Matúš Žac / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Carpathian Euroregion;

Political development and changes in integration processes in Western Europe in the early 1970s led to cross-border regional cooperation between several countries in Western Europe and gave rise to the Association of European Border Regions in 1971 (History of AEBR 2019). In 1980, the European Framework Agreement on Cross-Border Cooperation was adopted in Madrid to promote regional cross-border cooperation. The fundamental objectives of the development and cooperation in these territories were declared in the European Charter for Border and Cross-Border Regions, which was formulated by the Association of European Border Regions in 1994.9 These steps led to the political activity of border regions, which put together democratic civic participation and shaped the diverse forms of cross-border cooperation. With the development of cross-border cooperation in many territories, particularly along the internal borders of the European Union (Germany, France, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc.), the number of Euroregions started to increase. After the political changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe, the states of the so-called former Eastern Bloc also started to incorporate this concept.

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Gold Plate with Monogram of the Late-Antique Fortress at Cape of St. Atanas

Золотая пластина с монограммой из позднеантичной крепости на мысе Св. Атанас

Author(s): Valeri Yotov / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Balkans; Bulgaria; Early Byzantine period; Late Antique fortress; gold bezel; finger ring; monogram;bath;

In 2019, during regular excavation of the late Antique fortified town located on Cape of Sveti Atanas near Byala (Varna Region, Bulgaria) a thin gold plate, ellipsoid in shape, with incised block monogram of Greek letters between two crosses was discovered. It came to light in a drainage channel coming out of the Late Antique bath, which was excavated seven years ago. The monogram is well designed. There is no doubt that this little plate was actually the bezel of an Early Byzantine gold ring. Based on the dating of the bath, it should be dated to the middle of 5th — beginning of 6th centuries AD.

The Axe with the Image of an Ancient Russian Ducal Sign from the Outskirts of Chernihiv

Топор с изображением древнерусского княжеского знака из окрестностей Чернигова

Author(s): Serge V. Beletsky / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

The picture of the silver inlaid iron axe was published in the Internet in 2019. Besides the wattled ornament, the incrustation includes an image of an ancient Russian ducal sign in the form of trident. According to the finders´ information, the axe originates from the outskirts of Chernihiv. The sign on that axe belonged to the duke Vladimir Svyatoslavovich.The finds of the silver inlaid axes with ducal signs are rare but not unique. A similar axe which had images of two ducal signs along with a geometrical ornament was found in 2011 during the excavations of a mound on Shekshovo-9 burial ground near Suzdal. There is a silver inlaid ducal sign at the end face of the axe from the mound excavated on Nikolskoye III burial ground.The finds listed above indicate that the use of ceremonial weapons with the images of ducal emblems was not uncommon in the Ancient Rus. Obviously, such axes were the same regalia of power as heraldic pendants, but they only represented the insignia of military power, and not the civilian one.

Religious Education and the Bulgarian School - Traditions, Problems and Perspectives in National and European Context

Религиозното образование и българското училище - традиции, проблеми и перспективи в национален и европейски контекст

Author(s): Kostadin Nushev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Religious education; spiritual and moral formation; religious education in the public school in Bulgaria

Religious education and spiritual formation in the Bulgarian general school have their longstanding traditions, which have been largely interrupted in the second half of the 20th century. Over the last three decades of social and political transformations in the country efforts have been made to restore religious education and to renew the model of religious and moral education for adolescents. Today, this process faces many difficulties and challenges of a different nature in search of the most optimal model of modern religious education in the educational system of public school both on the national level and in the European public and political contexts.

Educational, Enlightenment and Soteriological Function of the Church. Metropolitan Kliment Turnovski (Vasil Drumev) and his Enlightenment Work on the Church in Bulgaria

Образователна, просветителска и сотериологична функция на църквата. Митрополит Климент Търновски (Васил Друмев) и неговото просветително дело за църквата в България

Author(s): Stoyan Chilikov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Metropolitan Clement of Tarnovo; Vasil Drumev; liturgical-enlightening activity; holy fathers; enlightenment work

The text aims to trace an unexplored part of the person and the work of Metropolitan Clement of Tarnovo (Vasil Drumev) - his liturgical-enlightening activity. On the basis of documents relating to the personality and life of Metropolitan Clement and his theological work, an attempt is being made to search for the common and different liturgical-enlightening ministry of the holy fathers of the church and the consecrated successor of God's grace - Metropolitan Clement of Tarnovo.

SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AS STAKEHOLDER MAPPING TOOL

SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AS STAKEHOLDER MAPPING TOOL

Author(s): Boyan Koutevski / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Social media; stakeholder groups; engagement; organisational reputation; manipulation

The impact of communication in social media and the persuasion techniques among different stakeholder groups in online environment has become decisive component of the contemporary political and business processes. On the one hand, social media offer excellent technological and semantic opportunities for any organization in its stakeholder efforts in different scope – from universal, mass-intended messages to segmented influence upon particular groups. On the other hand, the communication environment of social media ‘equals’ the organization with stakeholder groups, which can influence negatively the organizational reputation and misuse the ‘online democracy’, applying manipulated or even overtly false information and suggestions.

Effects of Leisure Policy on Consumer Satisfaction: Setting the Stage for Drone Proliferation

Effects of Leisure Policy on Consumer Satisfaction: Setting the Stage for Drone Proliferation

Author(s): Hoonsuk Yoon / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: drone; leisure policy; accessibility; happiness; leisure industry;

As the government investment in UAV and drone technology increases, many aviation laws and legal limitations are impeding the growth of drone industry as a part of leisure activity. This research investigates the intricate interplay of leisure policy and people’s perception to set the stage for the drone proliferation in Korea as a new public leisure activity. Using the data from Survey on National Leisure Activity collected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 10,602 respondents whose age were 15 or older had participated in this survey. For this empirical research, an independent t-test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were conducted. The result of our analysis has revealed that people who are in leisure club are more satisfied with leisure itself, but they are less likely to evaluate the leisure industry positively. When tested whether or not people’s leisure policy perception affects the leisure satisfaction, how people perceive leisure policy and the leisure satisfaction affect their perception of leisure policy. This means that leisure policy should be fully taken into account when launching a new type of leisure activity. We can safely conclude that to make a sound policy and to increase public satisfaction, we must delve into the intricate interplay of leisure policy perception.

Risks, Discrimination and Opportunities for Education during the Times of COVID-19 Pandemic

Risks, Discrimination and Opportunities for Education during the Times of COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Titus CORLĂȚEAN / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: education; schools; COVID-19; pandemic;

The COVID-19 pandemic has been and still is a serious challenge to Mankind, even if it does not constitute an actual threat to the lives of nations. The pandemic has caused a situation of international sanitary crisis, numerous losses of lives, traumas, economic shocks and significant social costs. In short, COVID-19 will entail certain changes which are essential to Mankind in the short and medium term, at least. One of the social areas that faced the strongest challenges, without being really prepared for it, is that of Education. Teachers, pupils and students, parents, schools and local communities and, last but not least, the state were suddenly put in a position to change their rules of operation, teaching techniques or examination methods overnight. New technologies, difficult to assimilate in the short term by all players involved, material financial and educational resources which proved inaccessible to many students, especially in less developed regions or states worldwide, racial, gender, but also regional discrimination, young women and girls exposed to domestic or sexual violence, in short, this constituted a magnifying glass for inequalities. As in any major crisis situation, COVID-19 has generated not only significant risks, discrimination or costs, but also unanticipated opportunities, substantial human and technological progress platforms, including in the field of Education. UNDP recommends “five priority steps to tackle the complexity of the crisis: protecting and developing health systems and services; reinforcing the social protection; protecting jobs, small and medium-sized businesses and informal sector workers; making macroeconomic policies work for everyone; promoting peace, good governance and trust to build social cohesion”. It is very easy to notice the fact that none of these five priorities are possible to be fulfilled without the solid foundation of a good quality education (UN Sustainable Development Goals no 4). International experts raise an important question: will the current pandemic actually be the trigger for transformation? The answer and the appropriate solutions will imply political will and vision, a proper prioritization, budgetary resources, partnerships, good use of the innovative human intelligence, international solidarity and a non-discriminatory approach, ensuring that learning is accessible to all.

Strategic Subcultures and Grand Strategy Formation: A Neoclassical Realist View

Strategic Subcultures and Grand Strategy Formation: A Neoclassical Realist View

Author(s): Leo S. F. Lin / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: strategic subcultures; grand strategy; neoclassical realism;

Scholars have identified strategic culture as an important ideational factor that influences grand strategy decision making. However, they pay less attention to the role of strategic subcultures in the grand strategy formation. This paper departs from structural realism and exams the effects of strategic subcultures in grand strategy formation at the unit level. To investigate the role of strategic subcultures, the author uses the Type II neoclassical realist approach, which focuses on the influence of ideas on foreign policy and grand strategy response to structural imperatives. Thus, strategic subculture is an ideational intervening variable that affects grand strategy behavior. This paper uses China as a case to conduct a preliminary study to support the author’s theoretical argument. Many scholars have emphasized the impact of thousands of years of Chinese civilization and highlighted the pervasive influence of Confucianism over its state behavior. Nevertheless, China’s grand strategy is frequently affected by its strategic subcultures, such as nationalism and ideology. This paper traces evidence of Chinese grand strategy in the post-9/11 era as a case study.

Management of the Educational Team in the Context of Current Changes

Management of the Educational Team in the Context of Current Changes

Author(s): Claudia Ștefan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: team management; educational organization;

Acting in the name of a quality education means, first of all, knowing how to communicate and collaborate with others. Often, the dysfunctions in the education process, both interface and depth, are caused by insufficient training of a team management, but also by the inefficiency of team dynamics. All these aspects send us to the complexity of the collective factors, and those who know how to intervene in such contexts do not seem to be numerous. The article aims to address the dynamics of educational teams following three main levers: optimizing communication and collaboration relations initiated by the manager to educational factors, optimizing communication and collaboration relations initiated by the educational public to managers and optimizing communication relations between educational factors, especially between teachers and beneficiaries of education - students. Thus, possible blockages are specified that may occur in the process of effective communication and collaboration in education, as well as a number of suggested actions in order to help unblock these blockages and streamline the collaboration process.

Canonical Authors and the Identity Values in the High School Curriculum

Canonical Authors and the Identity Values in the High School Curriculum

Author(s): Nicoleta Crînganu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: school literature; curriculum; collective mind;

The school literature is the most important object in transmittind, configurating and consolidating the value system of a people. The school curriculum is not anymore a simple list of authors and works, its’ structure is more complex keeping in mind the triple status of the Romanian Language and Literature in the Romanian school system – as official tongue of the state, as a school language and a school study subject. However, the list of canonical authors is significant for the curriculum’s authors vision about the value system that the community intends to develop at the future generations. In this respect, two visions are confronted about the Romanian Language and Literature curriculum: the traditional one, that insists on some literary values that cannot be repealed, and the other one, a (post)modern vision that emphasises the pleasure of the reading/of the text and on the student’s needs. Regardless of the position of the curriculum author, it is fundamental that the studied literary works propose not only aesthetic values, but also ethic and identity values. For this reason, the options cannot be random. Something that has been learnt as a human model, studied during literature classes stays as a mental program for the lifetime.This paper is aims to identify a series of ethic and identity values as the can be found in the texts studied by high school students through the list of canonical authors, showind as well how the disappearence or the insertion of some writers and literary works have an impact on collective mind.

From the universality to the particularity of the research method

Od uniwersalności do partykularności metody badawczej

Author(s): Danuta Urbaniak-Zając / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: scientific method;research method;normative methodology;ethics in research

The aim of the chapter is to discuss the conditions for changing the status of the research method and consequences of the change. In the traditional approach, the research method is a refinement of the scientific method, which is an emanation of the ideal of modern science. So, the rules that govern the research method follow the science ideal. As long as one pattern of science existed, the method of natural sciences was considered commonly obligatory and did not require separate justifications. In the chapter, the author signals the genesis of the special position of the method in modern science and draws attention to the consequences of W. Dilthey's exclusion of humanistic sciences (including contemporary social sciences) from empirical knowledge, then focuses on conditions that impaired the autonomy of the research method. She discusses the consequences of this change for the practice of qualitative empirical research. In conclusion, the author refers to the links between the research method, the research subject and the assumptions referring to it; and signals the change of function and position of the method (it does not reflect reality in a realistic way, but shows how it can be understood; and thus it becomes a part of the problem being studied by means of the method). The task of methodological critique is reflection on research practice, reconstruction of contexts and assumptions adopted as parts of various research projects, which may serve to weaken the "methodological separatisms".

Declared and realized student mobility in the contemporary labor market

Declared and realized student mobility in the contemporary labor market

Author(s): Rafał Cekiera / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The accession of the Visegrad Group countries into the European Union structure in 2004 opened new perspectives for the professional development of their citizens. Potential departure – for a shorter or longer period – to work in another EU country has become one of the easily accessible alternatives. The possibility of legal employment abroad has created new career opportunities and, on equal terms, became part of the potential professional career paths available.

Uchronia, Antecedents and Evolutions

L’uchronie, antécédents et évolutions

Author(s): Mohamed Anis Abrougui / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: uchronia; utopia; historical novel; romanticism;

The purpose of this article is to study uchronia as a literary genre. I propose to take criticism one century back and to put aside the considerations of research on this genre in its current state. Uchronia is a genre of the nineteenth century, whose antecedents are: utopia, the historical novel, and the romanticism movement. The twentieth‑ century’s uchronia is in fact only a splintering of the “original” genre into three streams: the science fiction and especially the steampunk, a historicizing current, which has become a controversial discipline among historians, known as the counterfactual history, and finally the pure “literary” uchronias.

The nostalgia for the Borderlands – landscape and memory

Kresonostalgia – krajobraz i pamięć

Author(s): Łucja Kapralska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Kresy; cultural landscape; memory; postmemory;nostalgia;

The paper deals with the Kresy, the pre-WWII Polish Eastern Borderlands which have not belonged to Poland since 1945. Poles who after WWII were exiled from this territory preserved the memory of Arcadia – the beautiful land, picturesque countryside and noble people living there – because “Poland, like a bagel, is the best on the edges…” Absent in Polish political and social reality, this land is still recalled in memories, in the rituals of memory such as nostalgic tourism, on the Internet (where millions of records connected to the Kresy can be found), and in activities of the organizations of Kresy compatriots. The Kresy are the cultural landscape of memory – although they exist no more, the memory of the Kresy does. They are the subject of longing forasmuch their former inhabitants miss their lost homeland. The aim of the article is to answer the following questions: what are the forms of this nostalgia, who is subject to it, and what are its functions?

The impact of religious faith on family planning in South Korea

The impact of religious faith on family planning in South Korea

Author(s): Katarzyna Juszczyk-Frelkiewicz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

A Failed Attempt to Come Ashore. Joseph Conrad’s The Sisters

Nieudane „wejście na ląd”. Siostry Josepha Conrada

Author(s): Karol Samsel / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Conrad; The Sisters; The Return; James; Roderick Hudson;Flaubert;

Conrad’s The Sisters is a text with a Janus face. On the one hand, it maybe regarded as a failure in terms of style and composition, a minor mishap rather than a disaster. On the other, this text has suffered from a dearth of interpretations. Indeed, The Sisters seems to have been under-read, and this article is an attempt to amend this state of affairs by looking at this text as a fragment of a fresco hich contains suggestions of an ambitious yet never-realised project of a greater narrative. Following Zdzisław Najder’s clue that Conrad was influenced by the French school of realistic fiction, including Gustave Flaubert, we tend to disregard the potential borrowings in The Sisters from Henry James before 1880. Moreover, we tend to disregard the fact that so many phrases occurring in The Sisters almost as maxims return in The Secret Sharer and Under Western Eyes as organic parts of internal monologues and dialogues.

Aspects of Tangible and Intangible Heritage in Aristavele Former Manor

DWÓR ORWISTOWO (ARISTAVĖLĖ) – WIĘZY DZIEDZICTWA MATERIALNEGO I NIEMATERIALNEGO

Author(s): Rasa Bertašiūtė / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Literature. List of figures. List of tables

Bibliografia. Spis rysunków. Spis tabel

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0