Maximising Health Benefits for Citizens through New Technologies workshop at the EU Open Health forum conference 10 December 2008 - 11 December 2008 Brussels, Belgium Through a number of concrete examples experts in the field will outline how eHealth can support healthcare systems in providing better care to European citizens. It is suggested that the discussion of the working group takes note of the importance of technology to the health sector (and vice-versa) and of the need to evaluate how investment in technology translates into concrete health benefits. Contact: eHealth AT ec.europa.eu See also: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/ehealth

Living Labs Information Event

 The European Commission is organising a Living Labs Information Event, to be held in Brussels on Wednesday, 14 January 2009, at 10:30-17:30 hrs.

This event will provide opportunities to exchange Living Labs related information, potentially relevant in the context of the FP7 ICT 4th and 5th Calls for Proposals,
and for the CIP ICT-PSP (ICT Policy Support Programme) 3rd Call, all foreseen for 2009.

 

1st Annual Learning Event on 5-6Nov08 in Magdeburg

 

World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium, Crans Montana, Switzerland

The second World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium will be held from 10 to 13 September in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Under the title 'Towards a modern humanism', two main interdisciplinary themes will be debated:
- collective network knowledge and human individual intelligence: convergences and divergences;
- collaborative behaviour, altruism and conflict: from animal behaviour to economics and prevention of violence.

The invited speakers include renowned researchers such as the philosopher Pierre Lévy (University of Ottawa, Canada), sociologist Karen Cook (Stanford University, USA), primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory University, USA), astronomer Hubert Reeves (University of Montreal, Canada), ecologist Raghavendra Gadagkar (Institute of Science, Bangalore), computer scientist Wendy Hall (University of Southampton, UK), systems theorist Joël de Rosnay (Biotics International), developmental biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Max Planck Society, Germany) and geneticist Sir John Sulston (University of Manchester, UK).

Keynote lectures on the relationships between knowledge, scientific enterprise and responsibility encourage participants to frame their contributions in terms of the question: Does a knowledgeable person have additional responsibilities in the 21st century? The interactive workshop sessions which follow then allow participants to pursue specific issues at greater length.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.wkdialogue.ch/

INSEMTIVE 2008- 1st Workshop on Incentives for the Semantic Web

Located at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2008
October 27th, 2008 (Workshop day)
Karlsruhe, Germany

Supported by the EU project Active

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III IMPLEMENTATION OF CALLS
• Call identifier: FP7-ENV-2009-1
• Date of publication: 3 September 2008
• Deadline: 8 January 2009 at 17.00.00, Brussels local time
• Indicative budget2728: EUR 193.5 million
• Topics called:
ACTIVITY 6.1. CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION AND RISKS
Sub-activity 6.1.1. Pressures on environment and climate (EUR 32.5 million)
1.1.1. ENV.2009.1.1.1.1 Climate dynamics and abrupt changes – analysis of the palaeorecord
Collaborative Project (largescale integrating project)
1.1.3. ENV.2009.1.1.3.1 Quantification and attribution of annual-to-decadal changes
of carbon and GHG budgets in European terrestrial ecosystems to human and
natural drivers and associated climatecarbon feedbacks
Collaborative Project (largescale integrating project)
1.1.4. ENV.2009.1.1.4.1 Process-oriented evaluation of Earth System Models with focused emphasis on climate feedbacks
Collaborative Project (small-or medium-scale  research project)
1.1.5. ENV.2009.1.1.5.1 Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa (east to
west), quantification of impacts and assessment of adequate adaptation measures
Collaborative Project (small-or medium-scale focused research project)

Smart Event’08 offers the "one-stop" conferences and workshops for all the professionals concerned by Smart & Digital Security, Trusted Mobile Applications & Services, e-ID Management and Ambient Intelligence research.

Join the 750 worldwide delegates expected this year: researchers, academics, experts and innovation-makers will attend the 3 conferences, the educational program and the 4 workshops of Smart Event’08.

Smart Event’08 features more than 180 individual presentations, including 20 world-class keynotes, made by best-in-class researchers and experts from the industry, the standardization organizations and governmental bodies.

Learn and discuss the latest research & technology innovations, the industry trends analyses and the applications and roll-outs detailed in each complementary conferences of Smart Event’08:
- e-Smart for Smart Security Technology,
- Smart Mobility for Trusted Mobile Applications & Services,
- World e-ID for e-ID Management & e-Government applications
The Smart Event also hosts:
- Smart University, advanced educational modules on smart cards, e-ID, and mobile telecoms

- 4 research workshops: "EuroTRUSTAmI": 22 European Research projects supporting trusted Ambient Intelligence | "Serenity": system engineering for security and dependability | "The Internet of Things and Services": 1st research workshop by the HYDRA middleware project,"WearIT@work" the largest project worldwide in wearable computing research

Full overview of the Smart Event’08 conferences: www.smart-event.eu
Registering to any of the conferences/workshops entitles you full access to the Smart Event’08 conferences

AAL Policy Workshop in Brussels on 25-26 September 2008
The Joint AAL Association / AALIANCE Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living Policy in
Europe (co-organised with the European Commission) will be held in
Brussels on 25-26 September 2008.

The goal of this workshop is to create a comprehensive vision of the R&D and policy needs for ambient assisted living technologies and to suggest strategies that may serve as a roadmap for industry, service providers, academia and policy makers. An intensive exchange of ideas
shall support the building of a AAL community that may gather as project consortia in the future.
The workshop will consist of keynote speeches and four consecutive round table discussions, each opened by dedicated impulse speakers:
- Older people at home
- Aging in Society
- Aging at Work
- AAL Community building

Experts are asked to prepare short statements on different aspects of ambient assisted living technology trends in the different user domains, social-institutional aspects and R&D support and AAL community building.
In order to ensure a high intensity of discussion, participation in this workshop will be limited to a total of about 80 persons.
Interested experts are asked to apply for participation (including a description of their proposed contribution) on the AALIANCE website.
Experts will be carefully selected based on the relevance of their announced contribution to the discussion on the workshop topic and taking into account the importance of their attendance for the workshop goal.

September 30, 2008 (11:59pm, EST)

We are working with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/) on pre-award contracting activity for a grant with the United States Department of Homeland Security that requires international collaboration. After visiting your web site, we believe you and/or your institution might be a great value add to our team. I've inserted a brief description of the program below for your review. If interested, please reply to adam AT hunterwellman.com for more detail on our team and approach. It is a great opportunity to develop an international partnership for this and other funding opportunities!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is soliciting applications for international research projects aligned with the mission and requirements of DHS S&T. These projects should be designed to augment and complement, through international research and collaboration, the depth and breadth of homeland security science and technology research. Specifically, the S&T Directorate seeks proposals that will contribute to homeland security science and technology, including but not limited to:
* Evaluation of novel tools or approaches to confronting homeland security challenges;
* Basic research to provide data, understandings, or models that support S&T efforts or policy decisions; and
* S&T and operations research evaluations to support revolutionary improvements in DHS's mission and its component agencies' operations.
Link to full announcement - http://profiler.bgu.ac.il/Funding%20Sources/Homeland%20Security/Homeland...
Adam Ishaeik
adam AT hunterwellman.com
703-869-5109

Social Spaces for Research and Innovation Zaragoza, Spain, 9th-10th September 2008

Nowadays there are many EU initiatives launched in different frameworks as the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, the 4th Rural Development Programme, and the Fourth Regional Cooperation Programme INTERREG. They all contribute to the Lisbon Strategy promoting research, rural development and territorial cooperation respectively. As a result, a more competitive EU is expected based on knowledge society with full inclusion among people and territories.