EMF News
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Submitted by idoia on Mon, 13/12/2010 - 17:09
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The European Commission is organising an "Information & Networking Day"for the SME-DCL (Digital Content and Languages) Call which will open on 1st February 2011. This event will take place on 21 January 2011, and will be held in the Jean Monnet Conference Centre, Luxembourg. |
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Submitted by idoia on Wed, 24/11/2010 - 14:32
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The European Commission adopted on 23 November 2010 its “Agenda for new
skills and jobs” in which it outlines ways to ensure that there are
enough people with the right education and skills to fill the jobs that
will be created in the coming years. |
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Submitted by carmen on Tue, 09/11/2010 - 12:47
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010, DLF
Brussels-Europe organises a diner-debate on: - Linguistic diversity and French language;
- Languages to reach markets: economic issues and social issues. |
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Submitted by carmen on Tue, 09/11/2010 - 11:41
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The Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance organises a two-day forum on the challenges of multilingual Europe today.
The event is held in Brussels on 17/18 November. |
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 26/10/2010 - 12:46
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The Document prepared by the TermNet member, Infoterm, addresses
decision makers in public as well as private frameworks, software
developers, the content industry and developers of pertinent standards. |
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 26/10/2010 - 12:33
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The following paper places Innovation at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy and describes concretely 10 steps to achieve Innovation Union. |
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Submitted by carmen on Tue, 12/10/2010 - 16:59
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On September 29-30, 2010, EULARINET, supported by PRO-IDEAL Plus, FIRST and FORESTA, organized a workshop aimed at bringing together ICT-researchers from Europe and Latin America to establish contact with potential partners and at defining future perspectives of collaboration. All information related to the workshop,
as well as background documents on European-Latin American ICT
cooperation and capacities can be donwloaded here: www.eularinet.eu. |
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Submitted by idoia on Thu, 23/09/2010 - 10:58
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On 20 September 2010, EMF and its Pro-Ideal project partners met with Latin American and Caribbean diplomats in Brussels. This meeting, hosted by the Argentine Mission, was a first step towards developing the policy dialogue between the European Union and Latin America in the field of ICT along certain lines proposed in EMF's recent position paper "Towards an Inter-regional Digital Agenda between Latin America and Europe".
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 12:02
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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.
More information and registration
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 11:55
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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.
More information
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 07/09/2010 - 09:29
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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
More information
"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
More information |
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Submitted by carmen on Wed, 01/09/2010 - 09:59
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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 |
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Submitted by idoia on Wed, 11/08/2010 - 11:36
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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”. |
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Submitted by idoia on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 12:46
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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.
Go to the consultation
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Submitted by idoia on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 12:40
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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”. |
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Submitted by idoia on Tue, 20/07/2010 - 12:26
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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. |
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Submitted by phw on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 13:24
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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. |
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Submitted by phw on Mon, 12/07/2010 - 20:22
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Europe should reinforce its relationship with Latin America, argues the EMF in a position paper published on 29 June 2010. |
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Submitted by phw on Mon, 12/07/2010 - 15:34
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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.
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Submitted by idoia on Mon, 12/07/2010 - 14:51
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