EMF News

In the wake of the ICT2010 event, EULARINET, together with PRO-IDEAL, PRO-IDEAL PLUS, FIRST and FORESTA organise a "Project Café" at their common event "EU-LAC ICT Gateway" on Thursday, 30 September, in the premises of the Goethe-Institute Brussels, bringing together potential project partners from the EU and Latin America.
This full day event is preceded on 29 September by a "Future Perspective" session at 4.30 p.m. and a cocktail at 7.p.m. Participation is free but registration is obligatory.
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Visit us and our Latin American delegations at the ICT Conference.  The EU-LAC ICT Gateway stand in the "International Village" (Zone D of the exhibition area.) is a group stand that provides a wealth of information on research excellence in Latin America, and how to bring together EU and LAC researchers.
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"Empowering EU-Latin America ICT collaboration": This session brings together researchers from Europe and Latin America. Amongst the programme sessions are demonstrations of the ICT programme Wiki (www.pro-ideal.eu.wiki) and the participation of our Project Angels that support potential LA partners in EU ICT projects. TUESDAY, 28 September, 11 a.m., room T004
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"Connecting the Worlds: the Internet of Things International": Based on the CASAGRAS 2 project, this networking session will explore the potential of linking real and virtual worlds in a global efforts. Representatives from Japan and Brazil will give the most recent reports from their region, and the audience is invited to ask questions with regard to crucial questions like privacy and security.
TUESDAY, 28 September, 4 p.m., room T006
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"Language Technology for a multilingual Europe": How can we do the best of our linguistic heritage? The META-NET consortium will answer these questions, with experts from Language Resources to Machine translation.
TUESDAY, 28 September, 9 a.m. room T011
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The European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and Digital Media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing. Awarded annually since 2003 by the EMF and its Partner Organisations, the Seal is widely known for recognizing companies with:
1. innovative products and services;
2. excellence in the marketing thereof.

Apply through the Seal website: www.seal-of-excellence.org

The framework of the Belgian Presidency of the EU, Wallonia organises in collaboration with the European Commission a conference focusing on the needs of “Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” in the field of “Research” and “Innovation”.

Stakeholders in the programme (e.g. actual and potential project partners) are asked about the functioning and achievements of FP7. This input will be used to draft the Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme. Deadline for submission of opinions is 27th August 2010.
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The Belgian priorities for the next 6 months are in line with recently published policy documents of the EU, amongst others "Europe 2020" and the “Digital Agenda”.

DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission have published the new ICT Work Programme for 2011-2012 . This Work Programme defines the priorities for calls for proposals that will result in projects to be launched in the period 2011-12.

EMF is working with trade associations and training institutions to improve the quality of education and training programmes for internet-related jobs. We are currently trying to assess the needs of companies active in the sector. YOUR HELP is crucial to provide adequate information to training organisations about YOUR needs and requirements. PLEASE RESPOND to our questionnaire.

Europe should reinforce its relationship with Latin America, argues the EMF in a position paper published on 29 June 2010.

The European Commission published A Digital Agenda for Europe, its new 5-year strategy for the ICT sector, on 18 May 2010. EMF has reviewed and discussed it internally. It now releases a position paper with its comments and contributions to the debate.

The EU  published a full list of the networking sessions taking place at the 27-29 September ICT2010 event in Brussels,  Europe's most visible forum for ICT research and innovation.
EMF co-organises three of them: "Empowering EU-LA ICT Collaboration", "Language  Technology for a Multilingual Europe" and "Connecting the Worlds: Internet of Things International".

The European Commission organises an information day to brief interested stakeholders on the ICT Work Programme 2011/12 with respect to objectives 1.3 "Internet-connected Objects" and 7.3"Virtual Factories and Enterprises" within the context of the "Factories of the Future" Public-Private Partnership. The event will also feature a workshop for potential proposers to exchange their ideas and to network.

Eurobarometer, the European opinion survey organization, just released a new survey on science and technology. This was presented by EurActiv as "lazy researchers to blame for declining EU science optimism" and by the European Commission as “80% of Europeans say they are interested in scientific discoveries and technological developments, compared to 65% interested in sport”.

The report analyses the transformation of the Indian economy thanks to its competitive information technology services sector. It updates a previous report presented in December 2008.

The OECD publishes a report on "The future of news and the Internet".  The report analyses amongst other topics the evolving newspaper publishing industry, its economics in the downturn, the economics of the newspaper industry or the future of news creation and distribution.

Votewatch.eu has released a report based on statistical analyses of all recorded votes of Members of the European Parliament in the July 2009-June 2010 period. It address issues such the frequency in which a political group votes with the majority, emerging voting alliances, and the extent to which the political groups are cohesive.

DG Information Society launched a new website specifically dedicated to the Digital Agenda, the European Commission’s new ICT strategy for 2010-15. The website provides information related to themes such as ICT and Society, Telecommunications and Networks, Multimedia and Digital Content, Research in ICT. It also provides key documents about the Digital Agenda.

A short documentary film of the YOUp@ Youth in Action EU Project illustrating a 5 days event among 24 young people from Spain, Slovenia  and the United Kingdom is now on-line.

The Final Document of the YOUp@  Youth in Action EU Project, adopted by the assembly of young participants  on 28 May 2010 in Eibar , Spain   is available  at  www.youpa-project.eu.