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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

The Federal Foreign Office of Germany will hold an international conference on 'Climate change as a security threat - strategies for policy-makers, science and business' in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on November 6 and 7.

The event will focus on potential conflict constellations caused by climate change and the impacts these conflicts may have on peace and security. Moreover, the conference will bring these issues to the attention of a broader public and support opportunities for dialogue.

In a number of speeches and panel sessions, politicians and scientists will address such issues as:
- security implications of global climate change;
- climate change: challenges for global governance;
- technological responses to climate change;
- municipalities and climate change: responsibility and opportunity.

http://www.freiburg-konferenz.de/home_en.htm


Programme       

Wednesday, November 5    20:00    Benefit Concert given by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (proceeds will
go to the solar energy project "Lighting up Hope and Communities in Rural
Nicaragua"), Concert Hall Freiburg - Rolf Böhme Saal, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1


Thursday, November 6


8:00    Registration
9:45    Welcome addresses:

Dr h.c. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
Dr Dieter Salomon, Mayor of the City of Freiburg

10:00    Opening speech: Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Foreign Minister    Key note address:
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2007, India

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FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009   22 January 2009 Budapest, Hungary

Organised by The European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology

Information and Communication Technologies Research 2009-2010:

The 2009-2010 work programme of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme will be unveiled at the end of 2008. The work programme will set out the challenges and objectives for ICT research funding for the next two years.

Planning a research project in ICT? Looking for potential partners?

Are you interested in responding to calls for proposals for projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies? Would you like to meet other people having similar or complementary research interests?

This one-day event is specially designed for you!

The event is designed to help you meet potential collaborators and facilitate the formation of research consortia. European Commission staff will also be present to advise on the specifics of the 2009-2010 work programme, and on the general rules and procedures for participating in calls for proposals.

Advance preparation: use this website to make the most of the Proposers' Day

The 6th Workshop on the Cross-border Disaster eResponse in the eRegion to be held in Slovenia

“Interoperability of Information Systems of the Organizations Involved” is the topic of the 6th Workshop on the Cross-border Disaster eResponse in the eRegion.

This one day workshop, scheduled on 12 November 2008 in Kranj (Slovenia), will be organized in cooperation of the Slovenian University of Maribor, the Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, the Slovenian Ministry of Defence, the Innovation for Life Quality – Slovenian Living Lab, the ALpe ADria INitiative Universitie’s Network (ALADIN), the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission, the Embassy of the United States of America to the Republic of Slovenia and the Centre for eGovernance Development (CeGD).

The attendance to the workshop is free of charge, but registration is required.

For more information: http://elivinglab.org/Safe/Workshop/

For registration: http://eLivingLab.org/eLivingLab/Workshop/Registration

Best regards,


Marie-Christine BONNAMOUR

PSC Europe Forum
Nartus - Leader WP Communication
www.psc-europe.eu

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INVITATION  to OASIS User Forum and 1st International Workshop "Technology for independent living: an OASIS beyond 55", 8th & 10th October 2008, Brussels

Dear Madam/Sir,

For the growing elderly population in our society, it has become increasingly important to maintain their autonomy and mobility as this is associated to a better quality of life.

OASIS IP aims to develop an open and innovative reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic services, that will allow plug and play and cost effective interconnection of existing and newly developed services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of older people and their enhanced Quality of Life.

On behalf of the OASIS Consortium, we kindly invite you to participate in its first user Forum and international Workshop that will take place respectively on 8 and 10 October 2008.

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OASIS USER FORUM
>From a technological point of view OASIS promises to provide relevant innovations over the state-of-the art in areas such as Open Reference Architecture and Ontologies, Intelligent Agents and AMI Framework, Wearable sensors for elderly health and activity monitoring, In-home and Domotic Sensors, Independent Living Applications and Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications.   
To reach it aims and objectives the project is organising a User Forum on 8 October 2008 in Brussels encouraging multi-stakeholder participation and fostering discussions between industry, cities and end users to ensure the development of technologies and services that meet the needs of older people.
The consortium partners are pleased to invite you to join this forum. Your expertise and collaboration will be vital to the success of the project and for the well being of older people.

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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Chair: Barbas, Antonios
Maloney, Colette - Monteiro, Manuel
Organisers: European Commission, Information Society & Media Directorate-General (DG INFSO)
Themes: Theme B - Sustainable development: Regional responses to climate change
Speakers: Couturier, Martine - Gricar, Joze - Harmer, Dave - Reix, Claire-Anne - Simon, Patrice - Weets, Guy
Location: European Commission, Centre Borschette CCAB 1C
Date: 07/10/2008 [14:30-16:15]
Brief: Adapting to climate change in Europe, reinforcing the Union’s disaster response capacity, preventing natural and man-made disasters, and protecting citizens better against disaster risks by strengthening early warning systems, are now policy matters of high priority. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can dramatically improve the operations of emergency/civil protection agencies which have distinct legacy systems and depend largely on voice communication practices. There is also an increasing demand for reliable forecasting or prevention of riskprone conditions, launch of early warning systems and ICT-enabled preparedness strategies for timely interventions and cost-efficient resource management. Pilot
validations in urban and regional settings of emerging information exchange protocols and crisis communication technologies, permit interoperability in
operations between control rooms and field personnel as well as between the various agencies called for action after an incident.