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Bulgaria and eTEN (11 May 2005)Bulgaria, a European Union candidate
country, is now able to fully participate in the eTEN programme. The Memorandum
of Understanding between Bulgaria and the European Community covering Bulgaria's
participation in the eTEN programme was signed in May 2005 by the Minister of
Transport and Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria, Nikolay Vassilev and
the Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding. Bulgaria
will fully participate in the eTEN programme in 2005 and 2006. Neighbouring
candidate country Romania has been a full participant in the eTEN programme
since 2004 and will continue to fully participate in the programme in 2005 and
2006. Organisations from both countries already successfully participate in
projects in IST and other priorities of the Sixth Framework
programme.
PRESS RELEASE
Opportunities and challenges for European
films in the
information society at Cannes 2005 Europe Day (11 May 2005)The
Cannes International Film festival opened on 11 May with the screening of a
European film, "Lemming" by Dominik Moll, which received support from the MEDIA
programme of the European Union. On 17 May, the Festival will welcome the third
Europe Day the topic of which is "Europe?s cinema and the Information Society".
The EU Culture and Audiovisual Ministers will discuss the effects of new means
of distribution for audiovisual works, such as film online and video on demand,
together with directors, economic operators ? producers, channel owners, studio
heads - and the new ones ?? telecoms businesses. The renowned filmmaker Michael
Winterbottom ("In this World", "Welcome to Sarajevo", "Code 46") has agreed to
be the guest of honour at this Day.
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Call for tender: Economic impact of open source software
on
innovation and the competitiveness of the ICT sector
(Deadline:
17/05/2005) Is open source software important for innovation and competitiveness
of the ICT sector in the EU ? The European Commission launched a call for
tenders for a study. Relevant documents can be obtained until
11/5/05.
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EVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
Next Generation Internet - Demonstrations at Telecom cITy
10
May 2005 - 12 May 2005 Brussels, BelgiumEurolabs is a European project
supported by the IST Research programme. The project integrates new networking
technologies, applications and services. These components are combined to make
up five interconnected testbeds, located in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary
and Switzerland. The Eurolabs project organises advanced demonstrations at
Telecom cITy, the Belgian ICT fair, including Grid computing and IPv6-compatible
applications. Demonstrations will include: BEgrid (see a real Grid in
operation), home networking devices (control your house from anywhere)and
multimedia streaming to an iPAQ
EVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
ICT for Capacity-Building: Critical Success Factors
11 May
2005 - 13 May 2005 Unesco Headquarters, ParisUNESCO and the Club of Rome
are co-organizing in Paris a three-day World Conference on Harnessing the
Potential of ICT for Capacity Building. 12 World Regions will be connected live
via the GDLN network, making a global exchange of experiences possible. The
event is directed to the second meeting of the World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunis in November.
EVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
Workshop on Game Structures & Collaborative
Environments
12 May 2005 BrusselsIt is the first workshop addressing
Game Structures as a research topic in the context of Collaborative Working
Environments.
The workshop aims to explore shared structures in the
design and development of Collaborative Games and Collaborative Working
Environments. Games as well as team work consist of collaborative tasks. Today,
collaboration from ?anywhere at anytime? is facilitated in working environments
and is an upcoming matter for games. In both realms, designers aim at designing
environments that ease people?s activities and facilitate collaborative
activities that may span across real and virtual
spaces.
Contact:
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
European Conference
on Innovation and e-Business
26 May 2005 - 27 May 2005 Brussels,
BelgiumHow is the innovation process of the firm affected by e-business? EU best
policy instruments and emerging trends in
governance
Contact:
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
NO-REST
Workshop: Impact of Standards - New Insights
27 May 2005 Sophia
Antipolis, FranceThe overall goal of the Workshop is to develop a better
understanding of the impact standards may have in the e-business and ICT
sectors, and to validate different approaches to assess the impacts of
standards.
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