Informed individuals striving for excellence, supported by and giving back to their community.
This article was produced as part of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence supported by the ERSTE Foundation and Open Society Foundations, in cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.
Hannes Hettling was supported by the Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB), the Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB) and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) which are centres of excellence supported by the Dutch government via the Netherlands Genomics Initiative.
"These include: providing a focus for national identity, unity and pride; giving a sense of stability and continuity; recognising success, achievement and excellence; and supporting service to others".
"If Bay Street is to keep the doors open and continue its tradition of performing-arts excellence and supporting eastern Long Island, it needs the community's help," read the appeal, issued in September via e-mail and regular mail, on its Web site and on a sign in front of the theater.
Information and communications technologies, together with business policies, become a tool par excellence for supporting the creation of KM platforms that provide access to organisation knowledge resources such as workers, technical reports, software applications, and business documents.
At a time when aid initiatives in emerging markets are being scaled down, NHS know-how sharing can lead to the development of Southern centres of excellence for supporting the transition towards UHC, both technically and in terms of process.
The current system fails to incentivise excellence, to support poor performers, is opaque and inflexible, and allows inefficiency to continue without exposing it to proper scrutiny and remedy.
Surrounded by other talented kids, taught by teachers who expected excellence and supported by parents who demanded it, we rose to the challenge.
This article attempts to propose an algorithm for selecting which centers of excellence to support.
