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What is VISiYES (Leonardo da Vinci) poject?
PROJECTS
Virtual and Integrated Support for innovative Young Entrepreneurs & Start-upsVISiYES constructs a comprehensive set of ‘blended-learning’ business support tools applying the ease of use of the Internet to help young entrepreneurs and micro enterprises to identify gaps in their business knowledge addressed these with a 'development plan' that is both relevant and achievable.
EU Project Presents Surveys and Guidelines to Foster Adoption of Open Source Software in Europe
PROJECTS
EU Project Presents Surveys and Guidelines to Foster Adoption of Open Source Software in Europe
15 Reports on Economic and Social Benefits, National Adoption, Usability and Teaching of Free and Open Source Software
The EU funded tOSSad project has published its final reports to the public. The complete collection of 15 documents, comprising over 600 pages, sheds light on the general economic and social benefits of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS). The reports propose ways to overcome national barriers of F/OSS adoption, discuss how to improve the usability of F/OSS, outlines a F/OSS curriculum for educational purposes and offer hands-on tips on setting up a Linux laboratory for schools.
“Free and Open Source Software is right on track in Europe”, says Kaan Erkan, Project Coordinator of tOSSad. “The time is ripe for mass adoption of F/OSS. Within our surveys and workshops we experienced many successful examples of F/OSS solving critical problems in entering the mass market. There is still a need for the continued improvement of usability and a better understanding of how to sell F/OSS to public administrations. In this respect the tOSSad reports provide in-depth
information and useful guidelines for daily use. We welcome others to pick up on our suggestions and to help foster the use of Free and Open Source Software in Europe.”
All tOSSad reports are available for download from www.tossad.org/publications. A readers guide provides a brief summary of the most important reports: www.tossad.org/publications/highlights.
IST-2006 21-23 November Helsinki. Graphic Report
PROGRAMMES FP7 - IST - eLearning - EUREKA - eTEN
IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership
This year's edition of the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies coincides with the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
What's Next?
- See you in Köln for the ICT Proposers Day (1 February): IST 2006 Participants can register and transfer their IST 2006 profile to Köln 2007 in one click! Just log in
- Come back to this site for more presentations, photos and videos, plus the post-event survey
- Don't Forget: visit the new ICTs in FP7 site on CORDIS
IST 2006 included a high-level conference conference, an Exhibition of cutting edge research results from across Europe and a programme of networking sessions and workshops, with the exhibition and networking programmes defined by participants via this website.
Summer in a Northern City
Hello, time travels; have to apologize for not being here for a while. We have been busy with a number of things.
- CRM for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs)
- Biofuel, bioreactors, bio-ethanol and visions about a future bio based economy
- Microbiological measurements applied to paper machines and cellulose processes
- Co-creation of a book about Open Enterprise (Enterprise 2.0) and my role being to write about collaboration and open global innovation 1970 – 2010; theme Virtual organisations in time
The book project consists of a team of 15 people dispersed around Finland. Most of the participants are working together for the first time. The lesson seems to be that radically new working models are working in teams with little or no previous corporate culture. Openness is fostered by the uniqueness and “the strangers” are motivated to work together for the common goal.
FP7-ICT Call for proposals early June with a submission deadline on Tuesday 9 October 2007.
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Information Day on 14 June 2007
Objective ICT-2007.1.6: New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
The European Commission will open its second FP7-ICT Call for proposals early June with a submission deadline on Tuesday 9 October 2007.
For people interested in "New Paradigms and experimental Facilities", a free information event is organised in Brussels on 14 June 2007 (see agenda).
Quote from the ICT Work programme 2007-2008
Target outcome :
a) Advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols, designed to cope with increased scale, complexity, mobility and requirements for security, resilience and transparency of the Future Internet coupled with their validation in large scale testing environments based on a combination of physical and 'virtual' infrastructures.
FP7 presentation
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CONFERENCE: Helping the smallest become more competitive - Stuttgart on 16-17 April 2007.
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CONFERENCE: Helping the smallest become more competitive
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry is organising the 4th European Conference on Craft and Small Enterprises, "Challenges and opportunities for craft and small enterprises in the European Single Market" in Stuttgart, Germany, on 16-17 April 2007.
The two-day conference will stimulate the debate on a future strategy for craft and small enterprises against the background of globalisation, demographic change and technological developments, focusing on skills for the future, developing new markets and improving the business environment.
Angela Merkel, President of the Council of the European Union, Chancellor of Germany, Michael Glos, Minister for Economics and Technology, Germany and Günther H. Oettinger, Prime Minister of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg will be joining Günter Verheugen, Vice President of the European Commission at this major event helping to shape measures at EU, national and regional level.
Further information and registration are available here.
