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Bondița is an integral part of the popular port of the Republic of Moldova, throughout the Carpathian region and beyond. This item of clothing has a rich terminology and typology, depending on the area, region, season, social status of the owner, materials, finishes, technologies and techniques. Information on the art of leather craftsmen from Moldova and other European countries is presented. The scheme of cutting and embroidery of the bead varies, the materials used, the stages and the technologies of making. We can observe the forms, materials and art of embroidery on leather and fabric vests from the collections of museums in the Republic of Moldova and other European countries. Patterns specific to traditional art are used in embroidery and other decorative elements, which are made in different techniques. Stylized floral and geometric ornaments are represented decor elements. The leather processing is done according to ancient methods by using specific traditional tools combined with modern technologies. In recent decades, traditional vests have attracted the attention fashion designers of world class, but local designers have also found inspiration in the folk costume. Some pieces are inspired from the fashion designers' collections by the bonditsa, indicating a rising level of interest in traditional art presented through folk costume

URL to NLC2020 proceedings: https://www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/nlc2020/proceedings/ ; In the higher education sector both networked learning and inquiry-based learning are signalled as flexible pedagogical approaches which support and encourage the development of skills, competences and qualities expected of "21st century" learning. Whereas networked learning distinctively attends to connectedness enhanced and mediated by technologies for the creation of learning networks and sociomaterial assemblages, inquiry-based learning distinctively brings together teaching and researching encouraging students' learning engagement and development. A networked practice inquiry approach was envisaged as helpful to encourage postgraduate students to engage for learning on and with digital technologies and inspire professional practice development. Past the course experience an interpretative study was taken up in an attempt to obtain an initial picture of the student perspective of this course approach. This paper shares a preliminary qualitative picture describing students' viewpoint of the networked practice inquiry learning experience. It is a first glimpse into technology enhanced and mediated learning experience of the postgraduate student in Malta. These preliminary findings suggest that students are forward looking. Students demand and celebrate innovative digital tools and practices in and for learning, especially when these are seen accommodating them and resonating to their wider life and work practice experiences. They are generally enthused to assume explorative and inquiry attitudes into life and work practices for learning and practice development. They are also into connectedness for learning but on their own terms. This is a threefold appeal coming from mature students regarding their higher education course experience which, in a local context of fast developing sociotechnological change, is simultaneously energising and challenging. Considering that in the local context there is currently a lot of work going on the political and executive tables to see artificial intelligence and immersive technologies compellingly transforming mainstream societal sectors including education, in the local higher education scene we urgently need to make a start for making the course experience the first port of call where one has the "an opportunity to think and dream" as one of the research participants put it; constructively and critically laying down our future and that of the generations to come. ; peer-reviewed

© The Author(s) 2020. This article analyses trends in Chinese–international marriages and divorces, using Australia, a major migrant-receiving country, as a comparative case study. In exploring the recent rise of 'Chinese–foreign' marriage in the People's Republic of China (PRC), we show that Chinese–international marriage within mainland China is a small, gendered phenomenon that largely involves Chinese women marrying men from other Asian societies. By examining unique data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we reveal that most marriages involving PRC-born people in contemporary Australia are between two people born in China. But the displacement of Chinese intimate relationships to a non-Asian country results in significant behavioural divergences from couples 'at home', especially regarding prior cohabitation. Marriages solely involving PRC-born couples in Australia are also typically less enduring than marriages to non-Chinese. We argue that these differences underscore the roles of country-specific immigration policies and labour mobility patterns in shaping unpredicted family formation behaviour.