Workshop “ICT for better living", Brussels 15 April 2013

The EU-LAC Senior Officials Working Group on ICT for Societal Challenges, with the support of the AMERICAS project, are organizing the workshop “ICT for better living: increasing welfare of the societies in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean”, which will be held in Brussels on the 15th of April, in the context of the Senior Officials Meeting (16th and 17th of April). The workshop will address four topics of ICT for Societal Challenges: e-Inclusion, e-Health, Living Labs and Smart Cities. 

The Senior Officials Working Group on ICT for Societal Challenges was created in 2011 in the frame of the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation (JIRI), endorsed by the European and Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State and Government at the 2010 Madrid Summit. The main objective of the Working Group is to enhance policy level cooperation on research and innovation in ICT between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. 

Objectives of the workshop 

• Share the initiatives of the Working Group to a wider range of experts and stakeholders. 
• Definition of joint research topics in ICT, in the light of future funding opportunities. 
• Explore possibilities of coordination of research initiatives and national funding instruments. 

Who should attend?

The workshop is oriented towards EU and LAC experts, ICT stakeholders, senior officials, funding agency representatives and ICT researchers from the academia and industry. 

Venue: Chilean Embassy in Belgium, Rue des Aduatiques 106, 1040, Brussels.

The agenda can be downloaded here  

To attend the Workshop on ICT for better living on 15 April 2013 in Brussels please register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5934110083#

Virtual Herbarium & EUBrazilOpenBio Joint Workshop, 19 & 20 September in Recife, Brazil

The EUBrazilOpenBio project extends an invitation to participate in The Virtual Herbarium of Plants and Fungi of Brazil & EUBrazilOpenBio Joint Workshop to be held in Park Hotel, Rua dos Navegantes, 9, Recife, Brazil (tbc).

The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for botanists, biodiversity researchers and informatics experts to discuss the needs and challenges they are facing in their researches. The applications implemented by the Virtual Herbarium of Plants and Fungi will serve as an example as to how technology is used in botanical studies in Brazil. At the same time, EUBrazilOpenBio will present the services that its e-Infrastructure is implementing for the wider biodiversity community, thanks to the integration of different state-of-the-art technologies and resources developed in Europe and Brazil. The EUBrazilOpenBio Use Cases on Niche Modelling and cross mapping of Regional and Global Taxonomies will also be presented.

The workshop will also address the economic, social and political implications of Computer Science serving biodiversity in regions such as Europe and Brazil, with special focus on data e-Infrastructures running on grid and cloud computing technologies and on sharing data resources across regions. New areas of cooperation between EU and Brazil will be identified and common socio-economic challenges on biodiversity will be addressed. The outcomes of the workshop will highlight key challenges to be addressed in future EU-Brazil joint funding programmes.

More information about EU-Brazil Open Bio event.

IV WorkShop ARTICA

El IV Workshop – ARTICA tiene como objetivo difundir los resultados de investigación e innovación a la comunidad académica y empresarial. Busca también propiciar un ambiente de discusión y análisis para contribuir al fortalecimiento del sector académico y la cooperación entre el sector empresarial y ARTICA. Se llevará a cabo entre los días 25 - 27 del julio en la Universidad EAFIT y la Universidad de Antioquia - Medellín. En el evento se han programado sesiones para mostrar resultados de investigación, tutoriales de cuatro horas orientados a la divulgación de nuevas tecnologías a empresas e investigadores del sector de TIC. También se realizará una sesión empresarial usando la metodología Safari, adoptada por ARTICA para la identificación de oportunidades y proyectos orientados a la innovación, que puedan ser llevados a cabo de forma cooperativa entre el sector empresarial y ARTICA. También habrá una muestra de prototipos e innovaciones desarrolladas, o en proceso de desarrollo, dentro de ARTICA. En esta ocasión el evento contará también con la participación del profesor Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh de la Universidad de California, Irvine, como conferencista invitado. La inscripción para participar en el Workshop es gratuita, pero debido a la limitación de cupos, se recibirán inscripciones hasta completar los cupos disponibles.

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