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Announcements
Climate/landscape poster competition
The University's new Centre for Landscape and Climate Research invites affiliated staff and postgraduate students to submit research posters for display at the Centre's launch event on 28 September 2012. The best poster will receive an iPad; prizes will also be awarded to four runners-up. Submission deadline is 31 August, winners will be notified by 14 October. For more information and a template, please contact Virginia Nicolás Perea vnp2@le.ac.uk. Further details of the CLCR launch event, which will feature invited speakers, will be made available nearer the date.
Calls for research participants, w/c 21 May
Decision Making Study: Receive £5 for taking part / Participants needed for a survey study with £300 prize draw
Sign up now for the Victorian ‘Grand Olympic Festival’, 13 June
Help us celebrate the University’s unique Olympic heritage by recreating a forgotten Victorian event – the Leicester Grand Olympic Festival of 1866.
Hong Kong Student Ambassador Programme
British Council Hong Kong is once again looking for up to four student ambassadors to work in the Hong Kong office over this summer. These positions are aimed at Hong Kong students who have studied or are studying in the UK.
Student Loans Company: deadline and toolkit
29 June 2012 is the deadline for re-applying for your student finance so, if you’re returning to a full-time course later this year and haven’t applied yet for your student finance, go online today and apply at www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance.
Invitation to 2011-2012 China UK Entrepreneurship Competition
The China-UK Entrepreneurship Competition aims to encourage new business ventures between China and the United Kingdom and is intended to simulate the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early-stage investors and venture capital firms. The competition is part of the PMI2 (Prime Minister Initiative II) Connect project, supported by British Council and the Confucius Institute Initiative funded by Hanban.
