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2006 |
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IST-2006 21-23 November Helsinki EC event. Conference, Network Sessions, Workshops and Exhibitions. Exhibition CONSEN: IST rich media network profile.
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DrupalCon 22-23 September Brussels GovCamp 21-09-2006 Drupal Conference. Network sessions: IST TASK-FORCE and NetWork 2.0 |
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EU-FP6 IST-6 - IST-6 BXL Preparatory meeting. CONSEN Euro-Group EEIG as coordinator and REP.be as host are very pleased to announce the 7th and 8th of March as data for the Preparatory Meeting for the IST6 call International Cooperation in Brussels. The work-meeting is divided in two days and five specific proposals for the next FP6-IST6 call: |
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 BXL 2005-05-24, IST-5 2.5.8 ICT for networked businesses Info-Day. Martin (MVRCM), Kuba (GRUPA-ANTARES) and Ferran (MUFICATA) attend the work-shop. CONSEN presents TECAPIS as cooperative networked organization, interested in research organizational and knowledge solutions for improving the network, in particular the trust and the coopeartion. CONSEN offers itself as good partner for defining requirements, implementing and testing distributed technologies, applications on information and communication spaces. Some opportunities of project partneships raised. OS-Legal proposal as Supportive Action was discussed to produce a good Europe legal environment for the IST industrial area. |
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 BXL 2005-04-21, CONSEN friendly dinner Danny (THINK-WIZE), Etienne, Christophe (TUDOR Research center, LUX) collaborator, Hugo (INDIGOV), Nikos (ZEUS), Tünde (collaborator) and Gabor (ULX) in a typical Brussels restaurant. The CONSEN members and collaborators celebrate a friendly meeting approach around the table. Some different projects and visions were discussed. |
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Leuven (BEL) 2005-04-20, CONSEN work meeting: NEXT STEP Launching operations and defining actions. Jo (INDIGOV), Danny (THINK-WIZE), Nikos (ZEUS), Hugo (INDIGOV) and Ferran (MUFICATA). In a global consensus ambient the BCN plan was detailed and accepted. The attendants proposed to add some different strategic points to the CONSEN agenda and some specific actions for the next month. The focus was put on the internal organization, the main external actions and nwxt bids and work-shops. A common interest and work commitment were emphasized by everybody. |
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| 21 - 22 April 2005 Workshop on Key Challenges for Software and Services Research Brussels The next call for proposals in Software and Services, IST Call 5, will close on 21 September 2005. As part of its preparations for the call, the Software Technologies Unit is organising two events to encourage discussion of the technological challenges, to stimulate constituency involvement and to facilitate networking of potential proposers. |
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 BCN-Plan April-14 Planning the Preparatory works and Initial Discussions of the short-term objectives of CONSEN EEIG as network enterprise grouping having an initial and internal operative procedures and processes allowing it to launch activities and to allocate its internal resources to the current and future tasks in an organized, economic and learning driven by feedback way. The BCN plan opens a period of discussion, elaborating the BCN-Plan to be discussed in BXL the following week, with four additional partners. The results of both meetings will guide the organization until the launch of the Group on the first of June with 9 partners from 8 countries. Also they are to agree that the approval subject will be left to an online General meeting of Members to celebrate first week of May after the start of this operative plan and as previous period to the final approval in autumn druign the GAM in BLX. |
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SIGOSSEE 4th work-meeting Athens 21/22 February |
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Nutshell overview of DISTREE 2005 The CONSEN participation in Monte Carlo DISTREE conference, 2-5 Feb 2005, was carry our by Mr.Mark Valdman PER SCITUM. He present CONSEN to 147 other content´s Vendors from 25 countries. There was represented two panels of participants: IT Distributors and Vendors. DCC Rallies Retailers like Digital Consumer Channel and DBC Connects I.T. Systems Houses like Digital Business Channel. Minor aim was to make business connection in between Vendors and Distributors. As well there was lot of companies from different countries, the second goal was to give a overview of EC Funds - possibilities and a keys for participation. For Vendors there was opend a mess-room for new technology presentation. I. In CONSEN present "Methodology and knowledge for make EC Funds": a) how to find EC priorities and callings for make funds, how collect a Very Important information b) analyses of Your production and skills by terms of make EC Funds c) how to preparate proposals for make EC Funds d) how to create consortiums for make EC Funds e) full support for the process for to make EC Funds as the personal counsellor of Your company II. PER SCITUM in the role of distributor; 1. Software solutions: a) ToDo - Interactive Knowledge Management Environment b) m-ToDo as fundamental environment for Mobile Workstation c) DoorPit as a Data Exchange System on parallel channels d) Spacedata solutions for PC and Mobile Workstations - digital maps and navigation etc. solutions on it e) Knowledge Management Systems and Navigation Steering Centres for management of consortiums and/as well moving objects. Thanks for Distree Moderator Mr. Bob Snyder, CONSEN opens a Information Point during the conference time. Our table was visited through 33 companies by pre-registrations and same companies just provided a free moment to talk. Conferences was established on very high level: very flexible program, most companies was represented by presidents and executive directors/managers, very good organized workshops in related speeches and one-to-one meetings. |
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OS2EU Open-Source to Europe Barcelona work-meeting 2005-01-18 17:00 I2CAT.net (Nexus building) |
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OSCIS European Open Source Cooperative Info-Space. Open Source towards business  Brussels work-meeting 2004-11-02. EOSCIS is a practical, cooperative and innovative coordination action of the European Open Source (OS) emerging cross-sectorial Industries, carrying out a set of interactive workshops of common thematic regional interest for facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices and supporting networking activities between existing business clusters operative in Europe. In the picture, Mr.Danny Cools with responsible of the ICT-OSS clusters: INFOPOLE Information Systems (Wallonia - Belgium)INFOPOLE I.Sand TUDOR-SPIRAL Luxemburguish ICT Cluster SPIRAL (issued from the CRP Henri Tudor). Coordination Action for INNOVATION-6 proposal. |
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TOSSAD "Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination" negotiation meeting in Brussels 2004-11-01: |
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The Hague, 15-19 of November IST-2004 event, CONSEN Work-Shop, ENISIR networking session and FLOSSpols and CALIBRE project''s presentations. |
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 2004-06-02: SIGOSSEE 2ond work-meeting in Ireland.  |
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BRUSSELS 2004-05-05 - Contributions to eGovwernment IST-FP6/FP7 WORK-SHOP Consultation Workshop for the eGovernment R&D workprogramme 2005-06 The workshop will include parallel sessions on the following themes: user-centric eGovernment services; organisational innovation & Knowledge management; interoperable and secure frameworks, architectures and platforms; other innovative technologies, organisational, legal, social, and economic aspect for the modernisation of public administrations, including R&D perspectives on public administrations beyond 2010. Participation is by invitation only for logistic reasons. Contributions are nevertheless welcome. |
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 BRUSSELS 2004-04-26- kick-off WORK-SHOPGood and Best Practices in eGovernment A contribution to the eEurope 2005. Preparing a European Framework for reinforce the Exchange of Good Practices in eGovernment, launch event 26 April 2004 in Brussels. The results of the consultation are now available in the IST-RTD eGovernment. The eGovernment have to eqiuilibrate the balance in the investment of organization and skills, in front the investment in ICT. This objectibve can be reached by the exchange of good practices. More than a simple database of BP it is needed a catalogue, and more than an exchanging is a training and learning process. |
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  2004-02-26: SIGOSSEE First Work-Shop in Bremen |
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TEMOTIS Trans-European Monitor of the Open Information Technologies Space. Strategic Organizational Advisor methodology |
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2003
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 2003-10-02/04: IST-2003, Milano, Italy. Stelnet, as foundational member of CONSEN (EEIG) will introduce the concepts about CONSEN Community, activities and the IP-2329 project CEPEMIS, in the 2003-IST Information Society Technologies event that will take place in Milan on 2-4 October, in partnership with SMAU, one of Europe's largest ICT events. First summary of the 2003-IST Milan event, presented by Giuseppe STE is to the necessity of open the RTD to news countries and giving new Innovation Ambient to the RTD. The CONSEN presentation was in this sense: CONSEN is the Open Pan-European Info-Space Community interactive for establishing an IST Innovation and RTD environment in continuous expansion. Nowadays, CONSEN active members are promoting the formation of the CONSEN EEIG (European Economical Interested Group) for having more flexibility, union, force and sectoral representation. This CONSEN EEIG formed by 40 members and 168 partners basically SME IST, creates the starting knowledge pool that acts as Technical and Service Providers, Content Producers and local integrators of the CONSEN info-spaces, projects and activities, and necessary for standards, test-bed for applications and developments and user assessment. CONSEN provides knowledge updates for digital innovators and related business initiatives. CONSEN allow SME to interact in an IST habitat sharing information, ideas, resources, works, research for creating innovation and RTD innovation. CONSEN integrates Pan-European multidisciplinary organizations, SME, RTD centres, universities, local developers, consultants and governments mainly. This wide variability and high complexity give more stability, increasing the hardness, strength and solidity of the IST community eco-system. This month, CONSEN presents an big, long and ambitious EU-FP6-2002-2 IP-2329 Improving Risk Management proposal, with the intention of opening a new opportunity for Europe for leading this are of the IST and reduce the gap existing with our competitor in RDT. This project CEPEMIS Civil and Environmental Protection CEP European Multi-Risk Info-Space. |
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 The Government of the Republic of Lithuania in co-operation with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) will be playing host to the World Information Technology Forum, which will take place in Vilnius on 27-29 August 2003. The Vilnius Forum is the event, first of its kind, that will launch a regular cycle of conferences to be held every second year. The key goal of the Vilnius conference is to employ information technologies for bridging social development gap between the developed and underdeveloped countries, helping the latter become integrated into the world of information technologies, enhancing and promoting the development of information society. This initiative has gained wide support among the representatives of politicians, business and academic world of the countries at the forefront of information technology.It is my great pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to take part at the conference and to contribute to the implementation of its noble goals. Only by combining our efforts, can we break the ice in striving towards equitable use of information and communication technologies on a global scale.Regarding issues related with the organisational subjects of the conference, please contact the Secretariat Office of National Organising Committee for the World Information Technology Forum which address is Vytenio str. 9/25, |
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| Rome meeting 2003-09-6/8 : In Rome has been the first CONSEN meeting for working focused in four CONSEN areas basically: 1) Community; 2) Info-Space, 3) CEPEMIS IP-2329 4) Events and Activities.  This also strength the relationships of the core members of CONSEN. The participants has been: Giuseppe and Silvio STE, Paolo CIT, Andrzej PWA, Giacomo QUA, Alberto GMV, Mark EST, Gabriele NIS, Mauro and Lucia. The meeting helps CONSEN to concrete, define and improve the nowadays CONSEN concepts. CONSEN has to offer to their members, mainly: a) Info, Knowledge and Innovation in high advanced IST technologies; b) Business and Technological opportunities; c) Support for participating in Euro-project direct/indirectly; d) Exploitation of the CONSEN infrastructure; e) Use, develop, learn and Test-bed CONSEN; f) Offers and tenders for providing to CONSEN technical and expert services. CONSEN is the Open Pan-European Info-Space Community interactive for establishing an IST Innovation and RTD environment in continuous expansion. |
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| 2002-11-27 CDTI - IST Programme European Union R&D Programme Dept. C/ Cid, 4 28001 MADRID Tel: +34 91 581 56 62 / +34 91 581 04 22 Fax: +34 91 581 55 86 URL: www.cdti.es | ||
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focused on the report of tasks done and point out the next steps and work to do, in reference to the OS best practices in Learning and Education. 1- Leaders of take-up of OSS and best practice†working group, 2- Participation in standards working group, 3- Development of SIG through CONSENs network, 4- Coordination with CONSENS network, 5- Development and leadership of dissemination of project outcomes strategy. The attendance was: The Knownet; University of Limerick; RayCom B.V.; ITB Bremen; ERGON K.E.K. the host; NewMediaLab; Interactive-Institute; MUFICATA CONSEN (EEIG). The Conference 22nd agenda was: Pedagogy of e-learning by Graham Attwell. SCORM 2004 specification by Alexandra Toedt (SKYPE+slides). Designing Open Source LMSs based on experience and good practices Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus. e-Paideia Net Nikos Zigouritsas, Lambrakis Research Foundation. The asynchronous learning platform that was setup for the Greek Schools Network, which is based on Moodle by Vaggelis Kapoulas, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI). 
Developing elearning Lessons by George Bekiaridis, ERGON kek. Panel discussion with the presenters. Summary and concluding remarks and Close. Special Interest Group in Open Source Software for Education in Europe (SIGOSSEE) has been established to investigate, inform, and advise the education community on the uses and benefits of Open Source Software and Open Content. Open Source is of growing interest to the education and training sectors. However, despite much interest from the educational software community and from individual education institutes and providers, there is a lack of clear and unbiased advice and information over the advantages and disadvantages of OSS and how appropriate the adoption of OSS is for education and training and of policy advice and direction on the subject. 
CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group is preparing OS2EU Specific Support Action (SSA) project (deadline 2005-02-10), budget 1.500.000EUR 28 months of duration and 40 European governmental, industrial and academic partners. This is an opportunity to reach funds for doing a common and relevant Open-Source industrial cross-sectorial force and get some project and work in OS. The Budget for partner are 20.000 - 50.000EUR. He was to attend 4/6 Workshops and provide experience and interest in to cooperate for establishing a European grouping be able to start a EU project and a PA worksn and to join FP6 projects. Abstract: Build an EUROPEAN OPEN-SOURCE INDUSTRIAL FORCE available and feasible to lead, coordinate and carried out the research, innovation and migration projects and works of the Information Systems of the Europe Union Public Administration and other big international corporations to Open-source (non-proprietary software) converting the Software using the Open-Source in a commodity for all, citizen, industries and public administrations.
This negotiation task was perfectly taken and arranged by the negotiation core-team leads by Kaan. TOSSAD was before presented to Prof. Brian Fitzgerald (
The IST-2004 was incredible, for the massive collaborators and partners that we have met: Sofiane from the Emirates Arabs, Levon from Armenia, Tatyana from Belarus, Givi from Georgia, our old Lithuanian colleagues and all the Greece guys, Michel from ALMA, our CONSEN partners Danny and Mark, Leyla from Turkey and Nuno Cunha from Lisbon, the ZOPE guys, Brazilian OSS leads, having lunch with NOKIA, BMW and SONY research bosses, Iulia from Bulgaria and Bulgarian Todor colleagues, Jesus Herrero, Nuria DeLama, Stefano, Tünde, Cristina Garrido, colleagues, Agnes Bardier (the eGOV CONSEN IP2319 not approved officer) and lots more that I suppose I sure forget some relevant to write. In addition we met all the AMI@work communities Family. Imagine 100 card exchanged in the 3 days of the IST-2004 and a few more in the 2 OpenSource projects days FLOSSpol and CALIBRE. There were 3600 registered participants at the successful IST2004 conference in the Hague this past week. A significant number of these participants took part in the many related sessions which typically had tens of participants and in the case of the largest related Conference Sessions hundreds of participants. IST2004 was quite hectic indeed, for all parties concerned. The Monday ENISIR networking session is was really incredible 30-40 person attending the speeches, all CONSEN colleagues, well known of us, managed by Danny Cools, with contributions of Dimiter, Nuno, Vaggelis, Givi, Tunde, etc.... the particiants wanted to contribute and finally we fulfill the time available with these participations. I will work for celebrating next year the CONSEN General Assembly coincident with the IST-2005 event and we have funds to arrange that CONSEN will be able to paid the expenses and cost and all the rest needed. There also were lots of answer saying CONSEN I know you. but the more normal was what is a EEIG? Mark says Ferran this is real good we have to wait a pair of year for the big success. OKOK there will not success without working hard. 
ENISIR Networking Session. Monday November 15 from 16.00 - 17.30 ENISIR European IST Network of Innovative Applications Research and Result centers. ENISIR is a Pan-European initiative to build an evolutive, integrative, co-operative and Common Model of Reference of Innovation, Research, Development, Use and Sustainable Exploitation Environments of the Information Society Technologies. ENISIR seeks in this session to open a representative discussion in cross-disciplinary thematic matrix of Interest Groups concerned to IST, EU-RTD+I and related to Government, Privacy, Services, Citizen, FLOSS and networking co-operation specially. The results and mainstreams will be the focus on the ENISIR IST-4 project proposal/s and the participants the base representative of the leadership and EU interest and impact. This event is a must for any researcher, industrialist or citizen interested in EU funding for information society technology research, development and applications. The networking session ENISIR - EU2info Open Proposal Co-creation for an Innovative approach in RTD IST-4 has already been approved and are added to the Networking program. You can find more information about each session by clicking on the ID number 
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