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Dear colleague, we believe that is important to connect Open Research and Open Education: Thus, we have started together a joint initiative with the working title ICORE, with already more than 200 members now: Thank you very much for your interest in ICORE! We are very pleased about all the mainly positive feedbacks that we have received on our initiative! Please find attached: (1) the final version of the 1st ICORE meeting minutes that took place on 2013-05-15 in Rome, (2) the presentation about the main results of this meeting hold at LINQ 2013. Today, we would like to announce the first virtual ICORE online meeting: The first virtual ICORE online meeting will take place on Tuesday, 30th of July 2013! To allow participation of all interested parties worldwide, we will have two online meetings on 30th of July 2013 with following starting times: 08:00am UTC and 16:00 UTC (UTC = Coordinated Universal Time) 08:00 UTC means for the different time zones: 08:00am UTC = 01:00am PDT (California) = 04:00am EDT (New York City) = 05:00am (Argentina) = 09:00am WEST (UK) = 10:00am CEST (Paris) = 11:00am EEST (Athens) = 12:00am MSK (Moscow) = 13:30 IST (India) = 15:00 ICT (Thailand) = 16:00 CNST (China) = 17:00 JST (Japan) = 18:00 AEST (Sydney) 16:00 UTC means for the different time zones: 16:00am UTC = 09:00am PDT (California) = 12:00am EDT (New York City) = 13:00 (Argentina) = 17:00 WEST (UK) = 18:00 CEST (Paris) = 19:00 EEST (Athens) = 20:00 MSK (Moscow) = 21:30 IST (India) = 23:00 ICT (Thailand) = 00:00am(+1) CNST (China) = 01:00am(+1) JST (Japan) = 02:00am(+1) AEST (Sydney) The topics to be discussed will be: · Discussion on ICORE connection between Open Research and Open Education · Discussion on ICORE promotional possibilities of Open Research and Open Education · Discussion on legal status, name, organisational structure and future cooperation with other associations such as OCW Consortium and UNESCO, also identified as important by all participants (organisational issues) As the meeting will be open for everybody, please inform and invite relevant and interested stakeholders and colleagues. All connecting details and agenda will be forwarded during the next days: Please send us your proposals for additional agenda items. More information about ICORE: www.ICORE-online.org<http://www.ICORE-online.org> If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you very much for your interest and participation! With best regards, on behalf of the ICORE Management team Christian M. Stracke --- Christian M. Stracke Elected ISO-Convener of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36/WG5 Elected Chair of CEN TC 353 European and international Coordinator HR, E-Learning, Quality and Competence Development University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen Universitaetsstr. 9 (ICB) D-45141 Essen (Germany) Tel.: +49-(0)201-183-4410 Fax: +49-(0)201-183-4067 E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> LINQ: The Leading Conference for Learning Innovations and Quality QLET for Quality in Learning, Education and Training ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 for International Standardization and Learning Standards CEN/TC 353 for European Standardization and Learning Norms