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1.6.2012 - Vienna, Austria

Commercialization of IP generated in International R&D Projects

Conference on "Licensing, Transfer of Ownership and Dispute Resolution - Commercialization of Intellectual Property Generated in International R&D Projects"

Vienna, June 1, 2012

The conference will provide an overview of relevant agreements concluded in the R&D and commercial exploitation stages to illustrate their interrelation, with a particular focus on IP and dispute resolution.

The event is tailored for lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys and representatives from industry, research institutes, universities and public organizations involved in research and development, licensing and other technology transfer activities.

You will find more information and the registration here http://rp7.ffg.at/rp7_ipr2012

1.6.2012

Umsóknarfrestur Rannsóknasjóðs / Research Fund deadline

Umsóknarfrestur Rannsóknasjóðs er 1. júní 2012. Nánari upplýsingar í þessum tengli.

Deadline for the Icelandic Research Fund is 1 June 2012. More information in English here.

4.6.2012 - Krakow, Póllandi

WIRE 2012 conference: Delivering the Innovation Union at Regional Level

WIRE 2012 Conference
Delivering the Innovation Union at Regional Level

The Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE 2012) will focus this year on smart regional development based on knowledge and innovation; it will address main current issues related to the effective implementation of the Innovation Union at regional level for the next period 2014-2020.

The event will be organised in close cooperation with the European Commission and will take place in Krakow, Poland on 4-5 June 2012. The aim of the WIRE2012 conference is to present both main challenges and barriers concerning the development of innovation in regions and to elaborate recommendations for European and regional innovation policy- makers. The issue to be tackled is how to implement the Innovation Union at the Regional level;it will address three main thematic pillars:

Innovative regions in the Horizon 2020 will investigate the role of regions in smart specialisation, the role of cities as innovation hubs, and regional innovation ecosystems within Horizon 2020;
Stairway to Excellence will focus on the future of research and innovation at the regional level, on synergies between Horizon 2020 and the Cohesion Policy, and on smart specialisation in convergence regions and Centres of Excellence;
Networking for ERA at Regional Level will discuss the European Territorial. Cooperation, networks of clusters, European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation, networks of research infrastructure and Multiregional Knowledge Partnerships (e.g. Danube, Baltic).

Further information:

All information related to the WIRE2012 as well as detailed agenda and registration form will be available on www.wire2012.eu.

Organiser/ Contact details:

National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU (NCP Poland)
Ul. Krzywickiego 34, 02-078 Warsaw, Poland
Web: www.wire2012.eu
E-mail: info@wire2012.eu

5.6.2012 - Gautaborg, Svíþjóð

Conference on Critical Heritage Studies

Fyrsta heimsráðstefnan um menningararf og stofnfundur samtaka um gagnrýnin menningararfsfræði, 5.-8. júní 2012 í Gautaborg

Conference on Critical Heritage Studies
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - Friday, June 8, 2012
Gothenburg, Sweden

Information here

The inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2012. The Association of Critical Heritage Studies, to be launched at this
conference, will establish (in association with the International Journal of Heritage Studies) an extensive network of heritage scholars across the globe in order to debate and discuss cutting-edge research in the field of heritage studies. We see Critical Heritage Studies as a synthesis emerging from diverse disciplinary fields, in particular public history, memory studies, museology, cultural heritage, tourism studies, architecture and planning, conservation, as well as cultural geography, sociology, cultural studies and policy, anthropology, archaeology and ethnomusicology, and encourage people working in those areas to submit papers or propose sessions/workshops that address the inter-disciplinary nature of heritage studies.

The theme of the conference is ‘The Re/theorisation of Heritage Studies’.
This conference will develop current theoretical debates to make sense of
the nature and meaning of heritage.

Preliminary key note speakers include:
• Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester (tbc)
• Laurajane Smith, Australian National University

Conference subthemes will include:
• Critical heritage theory;
• Issues of representation;
• Heritage and non-representational theory;
• The politics of affect
• A consideration of emotion and the senses;
• Memory and identity work of communities, nations and other interests in
relation to heritage;
• The utilisation of heritage discourses in debates over multiculturalism,
nationalism and globalisation;
• Heritage, power and recognition;
• Heritage and human rights;
• The exploration of methodologies for mapping and exploring the social
and cultural consequences of heritage;
• Intangible heritage and its implications for re-theorising heritage; •
Non-Western challenges to dominant Western heritage concepts and
characterisation of non-Western appreciations of heritage;
• Work on digital heritage that goes beyond technical treatments of
archiving and embraces a range of social media and other forms of
interactivity;
• The performative nature of heritage – theorising craft, art and
creativity as discourses in heritage;
• Theorising and redefining heritage practices – the merging of
discourses; • Re-thinking conservation science – the blending of creative
discourse into social and natural sciences; and
• The performative nature of heritage – artistic practices, artistic
research and theorizing perspectives in dialogue.

14.6.2012 - Split, Króatíu

Mental Health Europe Conference 2012

Mental Health Europe Conference 2012
From individual to collective responsibility
The social determinants of mental health

June 14 - 16, 2012

Split, Croatia

Call for contributions

Mental Health Europe (MHE) has decided to dedicate its 2012 Conference to engaging with the social determinants of mental health, in a bid to emphasize the role society plays in both reinforcing and addressing inequalities. The conference will bring together experts from the European Commission, the WHO and the United Nations to present different methods for improving the social environment in schools and workplaces, encouraging inclusion within the community, and developing strong and supportive networks which can have a positive impact on mental health. Grass roots experts will also contribute with examples of good practices found throughout Europe.

Mental Health Europe is announcing a call for contributions for its 2012 Conference. We welcome abstract submissions for the following parallel sessions:

Meeting the basic needs of children and youth as an investment in the future

Changing the attitude of employers towards people with mental health problems

A framework for the establishment of strong and supportive networks

The role of volunteering in establishing networks in rural and remote areas

The human rights aspect of the access to quality community-based services

Deinstitutionalisation and the UN

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The role of the media in changing people’s attitudes towards mental health issues

Solidarity between generations in the

mental health field – Round Table debate

To submit an abstract, send it to Yves Brand at yves.brand@mhe-sme.org and Maja Soco at maja.soco@stokoluri.org by March 15, 2012

14.6.2012 - The Hague, Netherlands

Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life - Joint Programming Initiative conference

The first annual conference of the JPI "A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life" will take place on

14th of June 2012 in The Hague, Netherlands

The conference will bring together important stakeholders in the health and nutrition sector like policy makers, scientists, industry an Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), in order to further develop the strategic research agenda and to support implementation.

The Conference will have a plenary part with the attendance of key note speakers. The second part of the conference will be a series of parallel interactive workshops which will focus on the three indicated research area’s and horizontal issues.

From now on it is possible to subscribe for the conference at:
http://congresbalie.cariat.nl/informatie.asp?id=C111128&lang=EN

For more information you can download the draft agenda and the flyer with the pre-announcement. As soon as possible we will send you the Agenda for the confernce.
If you want to make hotel reservations you can use the booking form, that you can download on this page.
During the first annual conference in June 2012 the JPI HDHL will present its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).
A draft version of the SRA is available here.

15.6.2012

START umsóknarfrestur / START deadline for postdoctoral fellowships

Umsóknarfrestur um START rannsóknastöðustyrki / Deadline for START postdoctoral fellowships.

24.6.2012 - Zagreb, Króatíu

Children as Change Agents for Science and Society - Putting global thinking into action

'Children as Change Agents for Science and Society - Putting global thinking into action' will take place from 24^th – 29^th June at the University of Zagreb

This conference will be an opportunity for the curious to explore the vision of SiS Catalyst and to see how it relates to their own.

You can get the conference flyer and programme in this LINK.

There is no fee for this conference, however delegates will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.

All Information relating to the Conference can be found here and will be updated regularly.

25.6.2012 - Berlín, Þýskalandi

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

The 11th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security will take place from 25 to 26 June 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

As information security and privacy continue to grow in importance, threats to privacy are proliferating. The security of information systems and the privacy offered by them depends on more than just technology. They require an understanding of the incentives and trade-offs inherent to the behaviour of people and organisations. This necessitates careful research to accurately characterise threats and countermeasures, in both the public and private sectors.

This event will look into empirical and analytic tools to not only shed light on threats, but also to highlight security and privacy through novel evaluations of available solutions. Specific topics are set to include:
- optimal investment in information security;
- models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, phishing, and spam);
- risk management and cyber-insurance;
- security standards and regulation;
- cyber-security policy;
- security models and metrics;
- economics of privacy and anonymity;
- behavioural security and privacy;
- vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching;
- cyber-defence strategy and game theory;
- incentives for information sharing and cooperation.

For further information, please visit: http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/

9.7.2012 - Dublin, Írlandi

Active Ageing-the potential for society - Conference and SSH Brokerage event

Active Ageing – the Potential for Society

Conference and Brokerage Event, 9-11 July 2012, Dublin Castle, Ireland

NET4SOCIETY, the network of National Contact Points, supporting and promoting Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) researchers’ engagement in FP7, will host a transnational research event, to coincide with the ESOF Dublin City of Science programme. The event will be themed around the 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations.

For further information, please visit www.net4society-activeageing2012.eu.

NET4SOCIETY aims to target the event to approximately 350 researchers, policymakers and stakeholders from the international SSH community. The event will showcase international SSH research in the area of active ageing. In addition, it will promote and encourage engagement with FP7 SSH research programmes through a brokerage event that will form part of the conference programme. The event is sponsored by the European Commission’s SSH Unit of DG Research and Innovation. (see: www.net4society.eu) and is an official satellite event of ESOF, the Euroscience Open Forum.

The conference will focus on the human and social aspects and implications of active ageing highlighting possible research topics pertaining to the extensive field of SSH research. The objective is threefold; to focus on a positive approach to ageing and its potential for society; to showcase EU funded research in the field and to identify future research topics.

Key note speakers include Anne-Sophie Parent, Director of the AGE network and Lenia Samuel from the European Commission’s Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations initiative

Thematic sessions will be based on the following four key topics:

Employment
Social participation
Intergenerational solidarity
Economy and innovation

The third day of the conference will be dedicated to a structured brokerage event that will provide researchers and stakeholders with the opportunity to engage with the FP7 SSH research programme with special focus on the topics of the conference, with a view to finding potential partners for research projects in the FP7 call SSH-2013.

For further information, please visit www.net4society-activeageing2012.eu.

For information regarding the conference content and management, please contact mobrien@irchss.ie.

For information regarding practical issues such as travel, accommodation, venue and logistics, please contact net4society2012@abbey.ie

11.7.2012 - Dublin, Írlandi

ESOF 2012 at Dublin City of Science 2012

Dublin has been chosen to host Europe’s largest science conference,
ESOF 2012 (Euroscience Open Forum), from 11-15 July, 2012

To celebrate this prestigious, international event in Dublin, the City of Science 2012, a programme of science-related events and activities, will run throughout the year across the island of Ireland

Website HERE.

1.8.2012 - Reykjavík

AGI & Constructivist AI Summer School

Home Page: http://wiki.humanobs.org/public:events:agi-summerschool-2012
Detailed Schedule: http://wiki.humanobs.org/public:events:agi-summerschool-2012:schedule

The AGI Summer School is part of the HUMANOBS project which is sponsored by a European FP7 ICT Research Project Grant. Additional support is provided by Reykjavik University and the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines.

Summary

Fundamental problems are presented and dissected, including:

• What kinds of methodologies will be required to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
• How different will they be from today's software development methods?
• What role can logic and reasoning play?
• How do we construct highly distributed architectures for these purposes?
• Do we need new programming languages?

Starting with the limitations of present software development methodologies based on hand-coded knowledge it lays the ground for new methodologies involving self-organizing and self-programming systems - what we call constructivist AI - and presents recent advances in reasoning-based and self-expanding architectures.

Hands-on work will include experiments in the newly-developed programming language Replicode, which has been explicitly created for AI systems capable of self-inspection.

This summer school focuses on issues related to the original goal of artificial general intelligence, namely that of building machines capable of operating in a range of different environments and domains, and doing a range of unrelated tasks in a coordinated manner, with a special focus on methodology, integration, and architecture.

Organization

The summer school is organized around three key threads. The first, and main one, relates to constructionist versus constructivist AI methodologies, self-programming, introspection and logic. The second is the theoretical foundation of AI, the difference between cognitive science and AI, and the basic principles on which AI currently stands. The third and last is the role of AI in society, current academic and industrial methods used to advance it, and societal changes that may be expected from its development in the next 20 years.

Who Should Attend?

The summer school is targeted to those with a background in artificial intelligence and computer science, and may also be of interest to students in philosophy, psychology and cognitive science with a background in software developments or mathematics. It is open to all graduate students in all countries; the teaching language is English. The upper limit of attendees is 35, accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Application

To apply for admission, send an email with a short cover letter and a CV to the following email address: summerschool-2012@cadia.ru.is. Acceptance decisions will be sent out via return email, at the latest March 1st 2012. Further details will be announced on this website. Questions about the summer school can be sent to thorisson@ru.is.

29.8.2012 - Bergen, Noregi

7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education: Gender Equality in a Changing Academic World

7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education: Gender Equality in a Changing Academic World

Date: August 29 – 31, 2012
Location: Bergen, Norway
http://www.uib.no/gender2012
In August the University of Bergen welcomes to the 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond. The European conferences on gender equality in higher education have since 1998 regularly brought together hundreds of gender equality practitioners, researchers and administrators from Europe and beyond. The conferences provide an international forum to discuss and exchange information and experiences and share research results on the changes and challenges related to gender in academia, gender equality promotion and interventions in higher education institutions.

Keynote speakers: Alexandra Bitusikova (Slovakia), Curt Rice (Norway), Cordelia Fine (Australia), Renata Siemienska (Poland), Mari Teigen (Norway) and Kathrin Zippel (USA).

Topics for the parallel sessions:
· The financial crisis in the world and changing conditions for research and higher education. How will it affect gender equality in academia?
· Autonomy reforms in higher education and gender equality
· Gender mainstreaming in universities: challenges and successes
· Assessing the impact of gender equality interventions and measures
· Intersectionality, masculinities and gender equality in academia
· Gender and career trajectories
· Excellence and research policy in relation to equality

Sign up for the conference here: Registration - Click here!

Call for posters – click here!

4.9.2012 - Nancy, France

International Conference on Science Communication

Science Communication : International Perspectives, Issues and Strategies

4 - 7 September 2012, Nancy (France)

Universities and research organisations are vibrant communities fully engaged in science communication. Their actions are all the more important because the relationship between science, technology and society at large is at the heart of current debate, particularly at a time when the rapid expansion of digital technology opens up uncountable modes of interaction between producers and users of information. This conference intends to take a closer look at the new forms of dialogue between those who are directly involved in the production of knowledge and those for whom ethical, political and economic questions linked to research and its outcomes are considered just as important as the progress of knowledge.

13.9.2012 - Boulder, Colorado USA

International Conference on Culture, Politics and Climate Change

Deadline for abstracts: January 10, 2012

This cross-disciplinary conference will explore intersections between culture, politics, and science in order to enhance our understanding of public policy addressing climate change. The conference will interrogate the many obstacles and opportunities confronting U.S. climate policymakers and scientists. Presenters will be asked to broadly consider how climate change is communicated and how these processes intersect with ongoing cultural and political issues. While we will focus on climate change, authors are encouraged to draw lessons that can be applied to a variety of environmental contexts. Comparative papers and panels that explore similarities and differences between culture, politics, and climate policy in the U.S. and other countries are encouraged.

Discussions about climate change, policy, and science arise in a variety of cultural settings. Questions of how and whether to address climate change on a national and global scale are significant parts of political and cultural discourse. How policy is made, the role of state and non-state actors, the communication of science and values, and how meaning is derived from our shared culture are all questions that directly influence policy outcomes. In the context of U.S. national elections and ongoing international climate negotiations, these considerations are especially relevant. This conference will address these questions in the context of the 2012 elections, the COP-18 climate talks, and other cultural developments.

Keynote speakers will include:

Raymond Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia, UK
Wendy Parker, Ohio University
Spencer Weart, Center for History of Physics

Papers and panels on climate change may address, but should not be limited to questions about:

● Communication of science ● Environmental policy and politics ● Social movements/activism ● Political communication of climate change ● Mediated representation ● Non-state actors in climate politics and communication ● Journalism studies ● Visual culture ● Consumer culture studies ● Spiritualities of globalization ● Religions and the environment ● Documentary/feature film ● Environmental ethics ● Philosophy of science

Culture, Politics, and Climate Change

Deserai A. Crow, Associate Director, Center for Environmental Journalism

www.climateculturepolitics.org

This conference is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, Advertising a2b, The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), and the CU Environmental Center.
is a conference of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. For more information, contact:

27.9.2012 - London

Research Networks: Developing Infrastructure to Support Science

Research Networks: Developing Infrastructure to Support Science
27th September 2012, The Barbican, London

Excellence in innovation is achieved through a multitude of disciplines and sectors, from basic research to product design, from engineering skills to entrepreneurship. Collaborating at the right stage of development can make all the difference to the success of a research project.

Join us at Research Networks: developing infrastructure to support science to hear our high-profile programme of expert speakers discuss how to get more value out of research. Delegates will have the opportunity to learn from some of the leading research projects, institutions and networks in the UK and across Europe.

Book Online

Confirmed to Speak

Professor Paul Boyle,
President, Science Europe
Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

David Way
Director of Knowledge Exchange and Special Projects, Technology Strategy Board

Paul Clark
Director of Policy, Universities UK

Martin Yuille
Co-Director Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester University

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At Research Networks: Developing Infrastructure to Support Science we will explore how to foster pioneering research and innovation. The programme will showcase best practice of knowledge transfer, collaboration and excellence, highlighting the network infrastructures that can help to deliver results.

28.9.2012

Vísindavaka 2012

16.10.2012 - Bilbao og San Sebastián

TCI Annual Global Conference

The 15th Annual Global Conference will take place 16-19 October 2012. The theme of the conference is "Constructing Place-based Competitiveness in Times of Global Change"

The conference is jointly hosted by the Basque Government and Orkestra and provides an opportunity for policy-makers, cluster practitioners and academcs to advance understanding of important challenges for competitiveness policies.

Information of the conference website here: www.tci2012.com

23.10.2012 - Kaupmannahöfn, Danmörku

Europe INNOVA 2012

Europe INNOVA 2012

STRESS TEST OF EUROPEAN INNOVATION POLICY

Join the stress test of innovation policy of the EU member states.

Register to participate in the Europe INNOVA 2012 conference in Copenhagen 23-24 October 2012.

Europe INNOVA 2012 will stress test innovation policy in three areas:

SME innovation support schemes
Commercial exploitation of knowledge, IP and new inventions
Networks and cluster policies

Europe INNOVA 2012 will provide you with:

The latest knowledge and the hottest discussions going on in the innovation policy society
New knowledge on how you can improve your performance as policy maker and programme owner
New knowledge on the best innovation policies as well as the most embarrassing failures you should avoid
Access to likeminded people who can support you as policy maker and programme owner
New ideas and new energy to meet the challenges of the future

The conference is based on a completely new innovative concept: “TEN DOGMA RULES FOR CONFERENCES”

No opening speeches from VIPs – important people will be those who really know what will be the future innovation policy in Europe
No time wasted on long presentation of speakers – the programme and webpage has all the information you need on speakers
No keynote speakers – but we can offer you access to brand new knowledge on innovation policy
No PowerPoint presentations – the speakers will be interviewed on stage by a professional moderator
No reports will be presented – you will get access to reports before the conference. On stage we will focus on discussion and dilemmas
No parallel sessions – you will get access to all the wisdom of the conference.
No quotations – participants should contribute with their own thinking, own ideas and original thoughts
No best practice without a critical angle – all cases presented will be submitted to a stress test
No one is allowed to be bored – minimum one good laugh per hour
Lots of breaks – you will get the best opportunities to make contacts, dating and networking