The “Science against Poverty” Conference will take place in 8th and 9th of April 2010 in La Granja, Segovia, Spain. It will raise the issue of the role of scientific research (particularly of social sciences) and innovation in alleviating poverty and social exclusion to the ministerial political agenda.

The event will bring together 200 international experts from the academia, research organisations and policy makers to come out with high level recommendations which are to be translated as Council Conclusions during the 2nd Competitiveness Council of May 2010. The outcomes of the conference will be presented by the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Ms Cristina Garmendia at the Competitiveness Council meeting on 26th of May 2010 in Brussels. Also, they will be disseminated to European and international RTD stakeholders.

The Conference will focus on what can RTD&I do to fight poverty in the World, and will pay special attention on how European and National RTD an Innovation policies should be designed and adapted so that they reflect a responsible compromise of Science Programmes towards fighting poverty and exclusion. The role of Socio-economic sciences in understanding the poverty dynamics and in proposing plausible remedies will also be a focal point of the Conference.

The presentations givn during the WINDS-Caribe Final Seminar are available in this website. Soon some videos of the prosentations wil also be posted in the Seminar page, ogether with the Seminar Proceedigs.

The study provides a comparative analysis of different Digital Literacy initiatives within the EU25, Norway, and Iceland, and in selected countries such as India, Canada and the USA. The study has focused on initiatives and policies targeted to disadvantaged groups not being able to take full advantage of the information society for different reasons such as geographical location and the socio-economic background.

The fifth Call for proposals of the ICT FP7 was published on the 31st July 2009, with a deadline on Monday 26th October 2009 at 17h00 Brussels time.

Please find all relevant information in the \\\"FP7 Support\\\" secion of this website.

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La quinta convocatoria TIC del 7PM se publicó el 31 de julio de 2009, con fecha límite el lunes 26 de octubre de 2009 a las 17.00, hora local de Bruselas.

Puede encontrar más información en la sección \\\"Apoyo para FP7\\\" de este sitio web.

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Le cinquième appel à propositions ICT du FP7 a été publié le 31 Juillet 2009, avec une date limite à lundi 26 Octobre 2009 à 17h00 heure de Bruxelles.

Toutes les information sont dans la secion \\\"Soutien pour FP7\\\" de ce site.

Ideal-ist, the worldwide ICT support network, is organising an international Brokerage Event in relation to Call 6 in association with eChallenges e-2009 on Tuesday 20 October in Istanbul. The Event targets a wide spectrum of companies and researchers from Europe interested in sharing new project ideas and finding collaboration partners. It will also an worthy opportunity to present at international level your project ideas for 6th Call for Applicants and to promote your organisation at international forum.

The event is focused on Call 6 of ICT work programme 2009 – 10:
• Objective ICT-2009.2.1.Cognitive Systems and Robotics
• Objective ICT-2009.4.1.Digital libraries Digital Preservation
• Objective: ICT 2009.5.3 Virtual Physiological Human
• Objective: ICT 2009.6.2 ICT for Mobility of the Future

Online registration for the Ideal-ist Pre-Conference Brokerage – Face to Face meeting will be open by end of July.

Deadline: 22 July 2009

The study will look at the present as well as the potential future roles of high-tech SMEs in long-term interdisciplinary and transformative research such as undertaken in the FET (future and emerging technologies) objective of the ICT theme. It will also address their role in the take-up and exploitation of the results of such research. The study will use quantitative and qualitative data on research intensive high-tech SMEs across Europe, complemented with case studies and a comparison with non-European policies in this area. The study will also formulate recommendations on measures and initiatives on how to stimulate High-Tech SMEs to take on these roles. Throughout the study a strong involvement of stakeholders should lead to ideas for future initiatives that are widely supported.

This news is specially for all those Caribbean researchers who are working on robotics. European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences (JAST project, http://www.euprojects-jast.net) have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural.

Source: ICT Results, CORDIS