PRO-IDEAL Plus: a commitment to cooperation in ICT between Europe and Latin America

On the 16th Feburary 2010, the Chamber of Information Communication and Technologies of Costa  Rica (CAMTIC) will welcome the meeting to launch the PRO-IDEAL Plus project and the 1st workshop for the ICT cooperation between Europe and Latin America.

PRO-IDEAL PLUS is an international cooperation project funded by the ICT Programme of FP7 in order to facilitate the active participation of universities, research centers and Latin American companies in research and technological development related to ICT. It complements the already running project PRO-IDEAL.

ICT 2010 Brussels

The bi-annual ICT conference, exhibition and networking event takes place from 27 to 29 September 2010 at the Heysel, in Brussels. Organised by DG Information Society of the European Commission, it is the biggest ICT research event worldwide, that attracted in Lyon in 2008 more than 4500 participants. ICT 2010 will launch Call 7 of the ICT programme, together with the presentation of the ICT Work programme 2011/2012. Register and shape the conference in submitting ideas for networking sessions (deadline 15 April 2010).

Strategy to link new skills to new jobs

4th call of the ICT PSP - now open !

The 4th call of the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) is now open, with an overall budget of 107 MEUR. This programme is geared at market-near projects. Topics cover: ICT for a low carbon economy and smart mobility; Digital Libraries; ICT for health and inclusion; Open Innovation for future Internet-enabled Services in "smart" Cities; ICT for improved services for citizens and businesses; Multilingual Web. Deadline is 1 June 2010, 5.00pm Brussels time.

6th Call of the FP7 ICT programme - open till 13 April !

The 6th Call of the FP 7 ICT programme is still open, with the deadline 13 April 2010, 5.00pm Brussels time. Open challenges include: Cognitive systems and robotics; Digital libraries and digital preservation; virtual Physiological Human; ICT for Mobility of the Future.

EQF-Code - Evaluation of European Specialist Profiles

A number of European partners from eight different countries collaborated in the Leonardo Project EQF Code. It´s objective is to make qualifications in the field of content development comparable at European levele-Competence Framework and European Qalification Framework. This shall thus increase the mobility of individuals within the given professions across Europe.

The project partnership focused on 5 professions in the area of content development and elaborated 5 European Specialist Profiles, namely Web Content Developer, Web Content Manager, Web Designer, 2D-3D Developer and Web Master.

Now we would like to validate the results obtained within our project and we would appreciate your feedback on these Specialist Profiles! Please help us to validate our results by answering some questions of  the online questionnaire.