Welcome to the first TAU International Volunteering and Support blog! This blog has been created to give complementary information to the graduated students of TAU and to create a community where we can share thoughts and information. This blog is NOT affiliated or supported by Lowy TAU international school or any of the TAU administrative bodies. This blog is meant to be an informal tool where people can be updated, alongside the Researchers and Scholars in TAU: the peers community , and the PhDs and group and the informal word-of-mouth. Each PhD student or post-doc is more than welcome to approach and participate in the creation of this blog, acting as a volunteer (with a little basic commitment) but also as an user, where they can collect any sort of information. All of the content posted on this blog is under the responsibility of the person who wrote it and posted it. UPDATE 06.11.23 Guidelines for the WhatsApp group 1.Respect & Kindness: Treat all memb...
This academic year started with some big changes in the policy of the TAU International School, and we went there to figure out what's new and which opportunities we have as graduate students and post docs. To better understand what's going on, we should start with our WhatsApp group . We made some agreements with the new Researchers' Community Leader of the Lowy Int. School, Tamar Solange Shalem (tshalem@tauex.tau.ac.il), a new team member who is in charge of the social business of the whole international community and has also a special attentive care for the PhDs and post docs. The importance of our independence and freedom Tamar and we agreed that our WhatsApp group should be autonomous, independent, democratic and private. We want to maintain it as a space managed by students, and for students only . It was important for us to distinguish between the official TAU community and our ambitious volunteer project aimed at supporting our colleagues in a peer-to-peer manner....