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Mission
The President's Letter
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Ethics and Philosophy
Humanitarian Aid
EMRF—ESMR
EMRF • Chronicle
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he Foundation.
TRTF was created by scientists of different countries and fields. Its various Chapters promote learning and teaching, interdisciplinary science and research, support academia and intercultural understanding, and aid the young:
Ethics and Philosophy,
EMRF,
the Pro Academia Prize,
Humanitarian Aid.
TRTF's Mission has been codified in the Foundation's statutes.
Its Latin motto runs:
"TRTF • Tabula Rotunda – Tabula Fecunda (sit):
A round table should be a creative table."
By the way: A round table need not necessarily be an oak table, still not any table does.
The President of TRTF, Peter A. Rinck, summarized the main mission features of the Foundation after this year's annual Council Meeting.
Read the Letter from the President.
he Pro Academia Prize.
In today's science and research, places of quiet discussion free from strife are rare, and, though generally preached, broad-based interdisciplinary exchange usually remains minor-league.
Single outstanding scientists have become a rarity. They still exist; however, in most cases research and academia require teams, organized as a network of groups with a common interest. Leading individuals, with a clear research orientation, forge successful groups and networks with accomplished and competent researchers.
The Pro Academia Prize is bestowed on one or several academic groups that serve as an example. The next prize decision is expected in mid-2021.
uropean Magnetic Resonance Forum (EMRF).
EMRF is the oldest scientific institution in Europe devoted to interdisciplinary medical and biological magnetic resonance, bridging the gap between the exact sciences and medicine. No commercial companies have any vested interest in EMRF and its membership branch ESMR.
After its incorporation into TRTF in 2007, the organization announced the adoption of a new structure and mission strategy. As a Chapter of TRTF, the Forum has reorganized its activities and extended its teaching program to the internet.
Its European Magnetic Resonance Award has merged into the Pro Academia Prize; in the future, the Award will only be bestowed in very special cases. EMRF's status as an independent institution within TRTF will remain untouched.
More about EMRF.
–Learning and Interactive e-Teaching.
At its annual meeting, the Council of The Round Table Foundation has decided to discontinue its virtual classroom for teaching scientific English.
All other activities in the framework of the Virtual Campus Initiative will be continued. More about this decision will explained by the President in his Letter from the President.
–Textbook on the Web returns to print.
After the tremendous success of the English e-Learning website Magnetic Resonance, Spanish and Chinese translations are available too as beta versions.
TRTF's magnetic resonance learning website is a complete, independent — and free, open access — basic magnetic resonance e-textbook, to look up specific questions or to learn the fundamentals step-by-step. It includes a glossary and a list of acronyms. The 11th edition was released in summer 2017 in English, 34 years after this popular textbook of the European Magnetic Resonance Forum (EMRF) was published the first time.
For the time being, the 11th edition will be the last web-version. In spring 2018 (followed by a corrected reprint in 2020), the 12th edition was published as a completely revised, updated and enlarged printed hardcover version.
Additional news and explanations are given in the Letter from the President.
wo serial publications under the roof of TRTF.
In 2015, the learned columns publication Rinckside (ISSN 2364-3889) was incorporated into the chapter structure of TRTF. Its Editorial Board has been enlarged.
The more than 30-year old column on “Imaging, Science, and Beyond” is published several times per year at irregular intervals both in an electronic and a printed version and is an officially citable scientific journal — small, but present. It is listed by the German National Library as a serial publication, and registered with the ISSN International Center in Paris. A Digest Version adapted to their readership appears as "Maverinck" on the website Aunt Minnie Europe.
Rinckside was revamped and got a face-lifts in 2019 and 2020.
It widened its scope by opening a multilingual daughter site, A Small Café. It is meant to be a pleasant and inspiring small virtual academic meeting place on literature, philosophy, criticism, chronicles, discourse and debate and open to submissions by a wide range of authors.
n Investment.
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies," Winston Churchill once stated.
TRTF goes beyond milk; a little breakfast and lunch, teaching how to brush your teeth, and a basis of reading, writing, singing — at TRTF's South American branch in Bogotá, Colombia.
More (including an update on Covid) …
Home Page
Mission
The President's Letter
Chapters:
Ethics and Philosophy
Humanitarian Aid
EMRF—ESMR
EMRF • Chronicle
Publications:
TRTF imprint
EMRF imprint