Daily Issue - 20 November 2006
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NEWS ARTICLE
ICTs in FP7: new site launched
(20 November 2006)A new site has been launched on CORDIS focusing on the ICT research to be funded under the Seventh Framework Programme.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Information Technology, Competitiveness and the Environment
20 November 2006 Helsinki
Information and communication technologies have an increasing impact on nature. This impact does not only include enhanced facilities to monitor change and provide politics with reliable data, it includes also problematic aspects, which did not play a role as long as there were some thousand computers on Earth but which became very visible within the recent years ...
See also: IST 2006 Event, Helsinki
NEWS ARTICLE
Two Years of CoreGRID, from Integration towards Sustainability
(20 November 2006)At the IST Event 2006 in Helsinki, Finland, CoreGRID is presenting the primary results of its first two-year activity of integrating and coordinating Grid research efforts in close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European Research Area. CoreGRID is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development through a grant of EUR 8.2 million assigned for a duration of four years.
See also: CoreGRID stand demos
NEWS ARTICLE
European Network of Living Labs: Human Dimension of Technology
(20 November 2006)As part of the official programme of the Finnish Presidency, the European Network of Living Labs is being launched on 20 November in Espoo, Finland. The initiative aims to set up a new European Innovation Infrastructure where users play an active role in the innovation and can influence this to better serve their own needs.
Reminders
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
IST Event 2006
21 November 2006 - 23 November 2006 Helsinki, Finland
The IST conference is the main networking event and showcase covering research and development in information society technologies (IST). The event is organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Finnish Presidency of the European Union, and will coincide with the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework R&D Programme. More than 4000 participants are expected to attend the event.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
5th EGEE Industry Day: Biomedical Challenges in Grid Adoption between Research and Industry
24 November 2006 Helsinki, Finland
This EGEE Industry Day will be devoted to the deployment of Grid technologies in the pharmaceutical sector. Distributed computing infrastructures enable a more seamless collaboration, improve the product design process and help the pharmaceutical companies to become more competitive on the market. This event will offer a forum for interaction with EGEE management and experts in Bio-informatics in order to learn more about the adoption of Grid technologies in this sector.
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
The European Legal Framework for eBusiness and Innovation
27 November 2006 - 28 November 2006 Brussels, Belgium
This event, organised by the European Commission, will bring together high-level policy makers in Europe, Member States representatives, legal experts and practitioners with the objective to debate how e-business and innovation can be facilitated by a more favourable legal environment. The conference will present the results of recent projects in these fields and the outcome of the ICT task force's working group on "IPR for competitiveness and innovation".
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