Workshops

“Promoting Western Balkan research excellence in the fields of eHealth and Network & Service Infrastructures”

Monday, 10th May 2010

Rectorate Building of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University,
Amphitheatre
st. Krste Misirkov BB
1000 Skopje, F.Y.R of Macedonia

The workshops
The EU-funded project ICT-WEB-PROMS organised two thematic workshops on 10 May 2010 in Skopje, Macedonia, for the themes “ICT for Health in the Western Balkan countries and the EU” (morning session) and “Network and Service Infrastructures – the future Internet” (afternoon session).
On the day after, 11 May, a follow up workshop explained all procedural, administrative and financial aspects of participation in FP7/ICT (for further information on this workshop please click here).

The programme
This one-day event addressed stakeholders from the Western Balkan countries (WBC). It intended to provide an overview of research excellence in the area of eHealth and Network & Service Infrastructures in the WBC and information regarding possibilities of participating in EU-funded related projects. Participants:

• Were informed on the status quo of research in the WBC and in the EU and roadmaps for the future
• Received guidance regarding the European Commission’s programmes related to ICT for Health and Network & Service Infrastructures
• Received information about the current participation of the WBC in EU projects
• Benefited from the presentation of best practices and EU project experiences
• Presented their own best practices in the field of ICT for Health and Network & Service Infrastructures

Please see the agenda here .

Presentations
The presentations given during the two workshops can be downloaded here:

Morning workshop: eHealth
- Presentation of the ICT-WEB-PROMS project - Ulrich Boes
- The European Commission programmes for ICT for Health - Reinhold Mainz
- e-Health development in the EU and roadmap for the future - Reinhold Mainz
- Western Balkan participation in EU e-Health projects - Vladimir Risteski
- ICT for Health - The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lazo Roljic
- e-Health in Albania: the present situation and future predictions - Betim Cico
- Possibilities of using SEE ICT SATELLITE VPN model for telemedicine - Tihomir Divjak
- Use of an Intelligent System for Pre-operative Evaluation of Peripheral Nerves Surgical Results - Betim Cico
- Best practice in eHealth in Bulgaria - Nikolay Jordanov

Afternoon workshop: Network and Service Infrastructures
- The scope and objectives of Challenge 1 of the FP7 ICT Workprogramme - Jorge Carvalho
- Activities and results of the FP7 ICT Project BONE (Building the future optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network) - Branko Mikac

- Future Internet - a WB perspective - Srdjan Krco
- Western Balkan participation in Challenge one related topics, FP6 and FP7 - Vladimir Risteski
- ARAGORN - Adaptive reconfigurable access and generic interfaces for optimization in radio Networks (and other projects) - Liljana Gavrilovska
- Projects: GN3, SEERA-EI, SEEREN and SEELIGHT - Margita Kon-Popovska
- Future of Grid and High Performance computing in WBC, (SEEGRID1,2 – SCI, HP – SEE) - Neki Frasheri

For follow-up and questions, please contact: