[ie-announce] ECSS 2014 - Call for Participation/Contributions

[Cristina Pereira]

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*10th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2014 -*
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014.html>
*"Closing the gap between old and new Europe"*

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*14--15 October 2014, Wroc?aw, Poland*

*Pre-Summit Workshop on 13 October 2014 
<http://informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014/pre-summit-workshops-2014.html>**_

_* *Deadline for Submissions: August 7, 2014*
*Notifications of Acceptance: August 15, 2014*
*Deadline for Early Registration: August 29, 2014*
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The10thEuropeanComputerScienceSummit 
<http://informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014.html>,ECSS2014,isauniqueopportunitytomeetsomeoftheleadingdecisionmakersininformaticsresearch, 
educationand innovation,anddiscussthecriticalissuesofthediscipline.The 
ECSS 2014 will be a special event marking the 10^th anniversary of 
Informatics Europe. The conference will be held in Wroc?aw, Poland, a 
beautiful cityfilled with history, culture and art, as well as a big 
center of software industry -- IT and ICT companies in Wroc?aw employ 
almost 20,000 engineers.

TheSummitisdevotedtoimportantandtimelystrategicissuesandtrendsregardingallaspectsofinformatics:education,research,funding,entrepreneurship,management,careerdevelopment,andpolicies.The 
10th anniversary of Informatics Europe will be an excellent occasion to 
look back at what has been achieved as well as to look ahead to the new 
challenges facing us in the future.

The Summit will take place in one of the tennewcountries which entered 
the European Union 10 years ago. It is a good occasion to evaluate the 
consequences of this decision for IT research and informatics education 
in the "New Europe". Therefore,as the theme of the Summit we have chosen 
"Closing the gap between old and new Europe". We expect that 
non-technical speakers and panelist will comment on changes underwent in 
the New Europe and the challenges it is still facing. ECSS will feature 
also other key topics of interest to our community and society: 
informatics research funding; privacy/NSA; new developments in 
informatics education; fostering IT-entrepreneurship.

In the view of the recent disclosures of global electronic surveillance, 
ECSS 2014 will feature experts who will talk about issues of computer 
and network security, cryptography, and cybercrime. Experts on funding 
and research evaluation, researchers and founders of successful 
companies were also invited. The reason why some countries are so much 
more successful in getting ERC grants than others, and what makes some 
universities particularly strong in creating IT start-ups will also be 
topics under debate. On education, we are recently facing substantial 
changes in the way that young people prepare themselves for the IT job 
market, the conference will feature experts talking on open online 
courses and how they are being regarded as a means to close the IT 
skills gap that allegedly jeopardizes the success of the European economy.

Weareproudtoannouncethatthefollowingthoughtleadersinresearch, 
educationand innovationininformaticshaveagreedtodeliverakeynotepresentation:

  * *Danny Dolev <http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/%7Edolev/>*, The Hebrew
    University of Jerusalem and The European Research Council, Israel
  * *Pierre Dillenbourg <http://people.epfl.ch/pierre.dillenbourg>*,
    EPFL, Switzerland
  * *Marta Kwiatkowska <http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/marta.kwiatkowska/>*,
    University of Oxford, UK
  * *Bertrand Meyer <http://se.ethz.ch/%7Emeyer/>*, ETH Zurich,Switzerland
  * *Bart Preneel <http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/%7Epreneel/>*,
    KULeuven, Belgium
  * *Andre Richier
    <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andr%C3%A9-richier/1/25/861>*, European
    Commission, Belgium
  * *Eugene H. Spafford <http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/>*, Purdue
    University, USA
  * *Jaan Tallinn
    <http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fuzwt/im_jaan_tallinn_cofounder_of_skype_kazaa_cser_and/>*,
    Software Entrepreneur, Estonia
  * *Andreas Zeller <https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/zeller/>*,
    Saarland University, Germany


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*Program
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As for the previous Summits, the program consists of special invited 
talks, workshops, panels and other interactive sessions devoted to 
common issues, problems and proposals in the area of Informatics 
(Computer Science/Computing/ICT). Special features of the 2014 Summit 
are as follow:

  * Invited talks from key players in the field
  * Submitted talks by colleagues from all over Europe and beyond
  * Pre-summit Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research
    Directors
    <http://informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014/pre-summit-workshops-2014.html>
    on October 13, 2014
  * Celebration of the 10^th anniversary of Informatics Europe
  * Award Ceremony of the 2014 Informatics Europe Best Practices in
    Education Award
    <http://informatics-europe.org/services/education-award.html>

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*Contributions*

ECSS2014issolicitingcontributionsontopicsofinteresttotheECSSaudiencethroughoutEurope:heads(ordeans,chairs,etc.)ofinformatics/computerscience/ITdepartments(schools,faculties);researchdirectorsandmanagersofresearchcentersandlaboratoriesinindustryorinpublicinstitutions;aswellasseniorfacultyandseniorresearchersfrombothacademiaandindustry.Topics 
for contributions include, but are not limited to:

  * Strategic changes in organisation of computer science departments,
    research and education.
  * Organizational leadership and policies in research and education in
    informatics.
  * Outreach, school education, programmingand informatics competitions,
    school education, studentsenrollment.
  * Informatics and education: MOOCs, open learning, online learning,
    peer evaluation, engineering skills.
  * Research funding in informatics: availability, coordination,
    experience reports, policies, personal grants, role of the
    government, role of industry.

Contributions are encouraged also on the key topics of the ECSS 2014: 
"Closing the gap between old and new Europe", "Informatics research 
funding", "Privacy/NSA", "New developments in informatics education 
(e-skills, MOOCs)", "Fostering IT-entrepreneurship".

*How to submit your contribution*


TocontributetotheInformaticsEurope2014Summitprogram,pleasesubmitanextendedabstractofyourpositionpaperbyAugust7,2014.SubmissionswillbeevaluatedandselectedbytheECSS2014programcommitteeonthebasisofrelevanceto(andcapacityof)theprogram.Proposalsmayaimata15minutepresentationordemonstration,andshouldconsistofanextendedabstractcontaining:

  * Aheaderwiththetitleofyourcontribution,yourname,position,andaffiliation.
  * Acleardescriptionofyourcontribution.

Extended abstracts should be formatted in the IEEE Formatting 
Guidelines.  You can use this MS Word template 
<http://www.conference-publishing.com/templates/MSW_USltr_format.doc>or 
this LaTeX class 
<http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/tex/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls>. 
Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length, and submitted in pdf to 
the Easy Chair ECSS 2014 conference submission site:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecss2014

  * Deadlineforsubmissions:August7,2014.
  * Author'sNotification:August21,2014.

TheselectedextendedabstractswillbemadeavailabletotheconferenceattendeesandontheInformaticsEuropesite.

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*Conference Venue*

ECSS 2014 will be held at the Institute of Computer Science, University 
of Wroc?aw <http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/en/main_page>. The University of 
Wroc?aw was founded in 1712 by Leopold I Habsburg. Today it is one of 
the largest universities in Poland, with over 30 000 students, 1500 
permanent faculty and 10 departments in science, humanities, and social 
science. The Institute of Computer Science is one of the oldest in 
Poland with over 30 faculty members, 10 postdocs, over 20 PhD students 
and almost 500 undergraduate students.

Wroc?aw,Poland's fourth-largest city and the capital of the Viovodship 
of Lower Silesia, is amagnificentcity filled with history culture and 
art. Originally (in medieval times) built across several islands, the 
city still has many lovely bridges and beautiful architecture. Wroc?aw 
has been chosen the<http://wroclaw2016.pl/en/>2016 European Capital of 
Culture <http://wroclaw2016.pl/en/> which symbolizes mutual learning and 
bringing closer the cultures and intercultural dialogue among the 
Europeans. The European Capital of Culture constitutes an important 
element of search of new identity of the unified Europe.

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For more details and up-to-date information please follow the conference 
website: *_http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014.html_*

Please note that the registration is not yet open.

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*Come join this exciting and important event in the field of Informatics 
and participate by submitting your contribution!*

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/P.S. Our apologies to those that received multiple messages regarding 
this call./



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