Category archive for ‘News’

• Jun

  2011

  21

  PARADISO contributes to a workshop on Trustworthy ICT (0)

  

  PARADISO has contributed today to a workshop organized at the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission in Brussels on the theme “Socio-economics in Trustworthy ICT”. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate the submission of proposals at ICT Call 8 (Objective 1.4), to discover current research trends and to discuss future [...]

   
• Jun

  2011

  6

  UNESCO joins the pool of supporting organizations (0)

  

  UNESCO, through its Communication and Information sector, has joined today the pool of international institutions supporting the PARADISO high-level conference to take place at the European Commission in Brussels on Sept. 7-9, 2011. UNESCO had already supported the first edition of this conference, held in January 2009 at the European Commission as well. The [...]

   
• May

  2011

  20

  PARADISO contribution to the Future Internet week in Budapest (0)

  

  PARADISO has contributed to various events held under the aegis of the European Commission in the framework of the “Future Internet week” (http://www.fi-budapest.eu/) that took place from May 16 to 19 in Budapest, Hungary and of the “ICT proposers’ day” that took place from May 19 to 20 in Budapest as well. Roger Torrenti, CEO [...]

   
• Apr

  2011

  4

  Children’s drawing contest (0)

  

  PARADISO explores how the full benefits and potential of the Internet can be enjoyed by tomorrow’s societies, in order to contribute to a better world. It is important that today’s children, who will be the main users of the Internet of the future, should be able to make their voices heard. They can do exactly [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  31

  The PARADISO Foundation can support your initiatives (0)

  

  The PARADISO Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created end of 2010 in the framework of the PARADISO EU-funded project, targeting citizens and the civil society, from Europe and other parts of the world, and aiming at fully informing them, at supporting their initiatives, and at networking them. It thus offers an opportunity to introduce, fine [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  31

  Synergies with the UNITE FP7 project (0)

  

  The PARADISO and UNITE EU-funded projects have started to identify and implement synergies on the basis of their respective objectives and activities. UNITE aims at increasing the level of excellence of ICT research across an enlarged Europe by promoting active secondment of research teams and strengthening cooperation in community supported research. The secondment or mobility [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  31

  PARADISO contributes to the ETICA final event (0)

  

  The ETICA FP7 project has organized today its final event at the European Parliament in Brussels, on the theme “IT for a better future: How to integrate ethics, politics and innovation”. The conference was co-hosted by the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA), which is a resource for the Committees of the European Parliament. It [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  31

  PARADISO contributes to a FP8 roadmap workshop (0)

  

  The EU-funded Coordination Action Effectsplus and the Future Internet assembly (FIA) are developing a roadmap for research into all aspects of the Future Internet. As part of this effort they have organised an open workshop today in the premises of the European Commission in Brussels. Researchers working in the field of Future Internet were invited [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  30

  PARADISO supports Next World’s invitation of Marc Luycks (0)

  

  Next World, is a “think-and-do tank” focusing on sustainable development and committed to “thinking of the future and acting now”. PARADISO supports their initiative to invite Marc Luycks Ghisi, a former member of the “Foresight Unit” working for Jacques Delors at the time when he was President of the European Commission, to deliver a speech [...]

   
• Mar

  2011

  29

  Contribute to PARADISO recommendations (0)

  

  The main PARADISO findings, based on various inputs including those from stakeholders contributing through the PARADISO social networks, and participating in project events are detailed in successive versions of the “PARADISO reference document”. This document includes recommendations to the European Commission on research topics to be addressed in future EU-funded programmes and suggests in particular [...]