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*** EVENT

 (1 March 2005)

Labour and Welfare in Europe in the Information Economy: Is 

there a danger of digital divide? 

Brussels, Belgium



This one-day workshop will be organised by the LAW project (IST-2001-33356), funded under the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. The workshop will bring together distinguished experts on European welfare systems and on employment trends in the information economy in order to explore the social and economic policy implications of labour market changes taking place in the transition to a knowledge-based economy.

The workshop will feature results from the LAW project itself as well as from other IST-funded projects in related fields including the e-Living Project, STILE and EMERGENCE. Speakers will include representatives from the European Commission and the social partners as well as expert researchers.

	

	

									

										  

*** EVENT

 (19 October 2005 - 21 October 2005)

eChallenges e-2005 

Ljubljana, Slovenia



This is the fifteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 500 delegates from commercial, government & research organisations around the world to share knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice. 





Focusing on eBusiness, eGovernment, eWork, eEurope beyond 2005 and ICT take-up by SMEs and International Co-operation on IST, the goal of e-2005 is to stimulate take-up of Research & Technology Development (RTD) results by industry, in particular SMEs, and the European public sector. 





e-2005 will provide a forum to showcase the achievements of FP6, eEurope 2005 and Regional, National and International ICT related initiatives, and look forward to the future by focusing on the thematic priorities of FP6 and FP7. The European Research Area (ERA) and research priorities and trends for the future will also be discussed.

	

	

									

								

						

						

		

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Around 80 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in the 

EU25 in 2003   (7 February 2005)



Mobile telephony has experienced enormous growth since 1995. During the period 1995-2003, the number of mobile telephone subscriptions has grown 42% each year on average at EU25 level. In 2003, there were over 364 million subscriptions in the EU25 compared to only 22 million in 1995, meaning there were on average 80 subscriptions to mobile phones per 100 inhabitants in the EU25 in 2003 compared to only 5 in 1995.

	

	

									

										  

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European countries launch joint drive to combat "spam"   (7 February 2005)



"Anti-spam" enforcement authorities in 13 European countries have agreed to share information and pursue complaints across borders in a pan-European drive to combat "spam" electronic mail. They will cooperate in investigating complaints about cross-border spam from anywhere within the EU, so as to make it easier to identify and prosecute spammers anywhere in Europe.

	

	

									

								

						

		

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EU News Service to support research in Poland  (4 February 2005)



The European Commissioner for Research, Janez Potocnik, launched on 4 February a new Polish version of the R&D News Service, CORDIS News, providing easier access to the latest developments in European Science for journalists, researchers and businesses in Poland. CORDIS News is a free web news service offering a huge range of information on EU research funding programmes, on-going projects and research success stories, as well as EU research policy developments, interviews with key figures in European research, and news on international cooperation.

	

	

									

										  

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Security Research: Commission prepares for the unexpected   (7 February 2005)



The recent tsunami in Asia and a number of terrorist attacks over the last years have demonstrated the need for quick and organised responses in crisis management situations. How can we respond quickly and effectively ? Recent experience in crisis management situations suggests that technology can help save lives and restore security. The European Commission is planning a wide-ranging European Security Research Programme to help reinforce the security of European citizens. The Preparatory Action already under way includes a number of projects, such as one improving the security surveillance technology for crowded areas like a sport stadium or metro stations that could be targets for terrorist attacks, by using a range of sensors to detect dangerous behaviour. Other projects will emerge in response to the new call for proposals being launched today.

	

	

									

								

						

						







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*** 10 February 2005

Workshop on financial issues in FP6

Ljubljana, Slovenia



One day workshop organised by The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology as an activity of the Finance-NMS-IST project, supported by the European Commission under the FP6 IST thematic area.





	



*** 17 - 18 February 2005

Innovation in Mobile Collaborative Workplaces

Rome, Italy



The objective of this workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, solution developers and policy makers to explore the potential for innovation and change in current work practices, to discuss new models for mobile and collaborative work, and to establish interfaces between the various research and innovation activities that are currently going on. In particular we will discuss current practice and future scenarios for new ways of working, address important societal and organizational challenges in creating systems change, propose and discuss new concepts for advanced workplaces including roadmaps for their implementation, and envisage innovative testing and validation environments including ?living labs?.

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*** 22 - 23 February 2005

2nd SOCQUIT seminar on "Quality of Life, Social Capital 

and Information Society Technology"

Heidelberg, Germany



Organized for SOCQUIT's Special Interest Group, this interactive seminar will be an occasion to discuss the preliminary results of the participants dynamic modelling work together with the analyses on some of the research topics that were identified at the first seminar in Seville. A proper usage and exploitation of the SOCQUIT model and its results will also be discussed.

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