ICT-WEB-PROMS at the ICT 2010 Event from 27 – 29 September 2010 in Brussels, Belgium
The ICT 2010 Event
This biennial event was a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 focused on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the 2011-2012 financial programme (€2.8 billion) of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT. For more information see the ICT 2010 website.
The networking stand
The two EU-funded projects, WINS-ICT and ICT-WEB-PROMS, jointly organised a stand throughout the three day ICT 2010 Event to inform interested EU and WBC stakeholders of the projects' activities and cooperation opportunities with the WB region. The project teams collected many expressions of interest for cooperation and will be acting as intermediaries.
The networking session
Besides the networking stand, the two projects cooperated in the organisation of a networking session jointly organised by seven EU-funded actions: ISTOK-SOYUZ, SCUBE-ICT, EXTEND, WINS-ICT, ICT-WEB-PROMS, IncoNet CA/SC and IncoNet-EECA. This session, entitled “Thinking across borders - (Re) discover ICT cooperation potential with East Europe & Central Asia and Western Balkan countries” was held on 28 September from 9:00 to 10:30 and attracted 140 participants.
The session aimed at enhancing co-operation between researchers from the EU and Eastern European & Central Asian (EECA) and Western Balkan (WB) countries. The floor was given to researchers to present and promote their ideas, and bilateral meetings between researchers from EU and EECA/WB countries were held to discuss future joint research activities. The session also hosted the award ceremony of the Western Balkan countries’ ICT idea competition.
The agenda and the presentations can be downloaded here:
- Agenda
- Presentation “Welcome and introduction of the session”, Kostas Bougiouklis, Q-PLAN North Greece
- Presentation “Thinking across borders” - the EU-EECA collaboration experience”, Pakulin, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presentation “Western Balkan Countries’ ICT Idea Competition”, Ira Vater, EBA European Business Associates Srl
The award ceremony
The session also hosted the award ceremony of the Western Balkan countries’ ICT idea competition (see also the related article “Western Balkan Countries’ ICT Idea Competition” at http://www.ict-web-proms.eu/competition)
The six winners won a trip to the ICT 2010 event where they were rewarded for their excellent ICT research ideas and given the opportunity to present their proposals.
The six winners of the competition are:
| Name | Organization | Country | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirjana Stojilovic | Mihailo Pupin Institute | Serbia | Run-time Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Architectures |
| Slavisa Popovic | Serbian Environmental Protection Agency | Serbia | Cross valuation of environmental, scientific and economic results for sustainable development and nature protection |
| Nebojsa Nedic | Business integration and business intelligence d.o.o. | Montenegro | White Robot |
| Bekim Dauti | NGO "InfoTech" | Kosovo (UNMIK 1244/99) | Self-healing systems |
| Lule Ahmedi | University of Prishtina | Kosovo (UNMIK 1244/99) | REINTERPRET (Reinterpret existing software solutions to readily enrich them with semantics) |
| Vladimir Trajkovik | Duna Computers DOO | F.Y.R. of Macedonia | ENTER (Enabling Collaborative Education Infrastructure) |
The six ICT Idea Competition winners (from left to right: Slavisa Popovic, Bekim Dauti, Lule Ahmedi, Vladimir Trajkovik, Mirjana Stojilovic, Nebosja Nedic)
Competition winner Bekim Dauti wrote an article about the ICT 2010 Event that was published in the online journal PCWorld in Albanian. The article can be seen at:
http://www.pcworld.al/blog/3486-reportazh_nga_ict_2010_digitally_driven....
He also wrote an article about his project idea “Self-healing systems” that was published in the same online journal. This article can be read at: http://www.pcworld.al/blog/3517-Sistemet-vetshruese.html.
For questions, please contact:
Ms. Ira VATER, e-mail: ira.vater(at)ebanet.eu