Tuesday, 30 November 2010, DLF Brussels-Europe organises a diner-debate on:
The Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance organises a two-day forum on the challenges of multilingual Europe today.The event is held in Brussels on 17/18 November.
The Document prepared by the TermNet member, Infoterm, addresses decision makers in public as well as private frameworks, software developers, the content industry and developers of pertinent standards.
The document underlines that Software should be developed and data models for content prepared in compliance with multilinguality, multimodality and multimedia, eInclusion and eAccessibility, multi-channel presentations and data modeling to facilitate the adaptation to different languages and cultures or new applications. These requirements should also be referenced in all pertinent standards.
Its purpose is to make aware that multilinguality, multimodality, eInclusion and eAccessibility need to be considered from the outset in software and content development, in order to avoid the need for additional or remedial engineering or redesign at the time of adaptation, which tend to be very costly and often prove to be impossible.
TermNet endorses this recommendation and would like to ask you to endorse it as well.
If you are interested please kindly fill in the form on page 2 of the document in word format and send your endorsement to companies, universities, NPOs, NGOs you have projects or joint activities with.
The following paper places Innovation at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy and describes concretely 10 steps to achieve Innovation Union. Among the steps described, the paper highlights the importance of investing in education, linking Research and innovation, adapting a free movement of knowledge, enhancing the worlds of science and the world of business among other activities.
The paper also mentions that “Innovation is also our best means of successfully tackling major societal challenges, such as climate change, energy and resource scarcity, health and ageing, which are becoming more urgent by the day.”
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On September 29-30, 2010, EULARINET, supported by PRO-IDEAL Plus, FIRST and FORESTA, organized a workshop aimed at bringing together ICT-researchers from Europe and Latin America to establish contact with potential partners and at defining future perspectives of collaboration. All information related to the workshop, as well as background documents on European-Latin American ICT cooperation and capacities can be donwloaded here: www.eularinet.eu.
Around 130 participants attended the Workshop on EU-LA cooperation possibilities, including Latin American and European researchers from industry and academia; FP7 National Contact Points (NCPs) for ICT, policy experts, as well as representatives of the European Commission.
