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"SME Initiative on Digital Content and Languages” information day, 21 January 2011, Luxembourg


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. 

New European agenda to promote skills for future jobs


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.

Dr. Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF, Guest of Honor at a Dinner-debate on linguitic issues


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.

META Forum: Challenges for multilingual Europe

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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.

Recommendation on Software and Content Development Principles

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.

The European Commission launched an "Innovation Union" strategy paper


The following paper places Innovation at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy and describes concretely 10 steps to achieve Innovation Union.

EU-Latin American ICT Gateway - Workshop on EU-LA cooperation possibilities


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.

Strengthening the ICT policy dialogue between Europe and Latin America


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".

Participate in the “Project Café” organized by EULARINET, together with PRO-IDEAL (PLUS), FIRST and FORESTA


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

Visit us and our Latin American delegations at the ICT Conference / EU-LAC ICT Gateway stand


Visit us and our Latin American delegations at the ICT ConferenceThe 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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