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    Dear Colleagues, <br>
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          <p>As part of the <a
              href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html"
              moz-do-not-send="true">2021 European Computer Science
              Summit</a> (ECCS) held in Madrid/online, the <b>Workshop
              on Career Development for Young Researchers</b> will take
            place on <strong>Monday 25 October 2021</strong>. </p>
          <p>The goal of the workshop, organised by <a
              href="https://dinitto.faculty.polimi.it" target="_blank"
              rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Elisabetta Di Nitto</a>
            (Politecnico di Milano) and <a
              href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/standa.zivny/"
              target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Standa
              Živný</a> (University of Oxford), is to support young
            researchers (PhD students and Postdocs) in the development
            of their soft skills related to presentation abilities,
            networking, developing a research plan, and connections to
            industry.</p>
          <p>Invited speakers include <a
              href="http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/people/gfitzpatrick"
              target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Geraldine
              Fitzpatrick</a> (TU Wien), <a
              href="https://www.cwi.nl/people/lynda-hardman"
              target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Lynda
              Hardman</a> (CWI), <a
              href="http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Petke/"
              target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Justyna
              Petke</a> (UCL), and Wolfgang Emmerich (<a
              href="https://www.zuehlke.com/en" target="_blank"
              rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">Zühlke</a>) as well
            as further speakers from industry. They will present their
            experience in creating a strong collaboration network,
            improving their leadership abilities, developing
            high-quality research, and moving the research into
            industry.</p>
          <p>Attendees of the workshop will attend invited talks and
            have the opportunity to actively participate in discussions.
            Moreover, they can submit their CV (up to 2 pages) and a
            research statement (up to 5 pages), on which they will
            receive feedback and suggestions for improvement. The final
            version of the accepted research statements will be
            published in the workshop proceedings as open access (the
            workshop organisers will submit the proceedings to <a
              href="http://ceur-ws.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"
              moz-do-not-send="true">CEUR-WS.org</a> for online
            publication) and young researchers will present them in
            front of the broader ECCS audience in the form of a poster.</p>
          <p><strong>How to submit</strong></p>
          <p>CVs (up to 2 pages) and research statements (up to 5 pages)
            formatted in the LIPICS style should be submitted via
            EasyChair here: <br>
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          <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
              href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcdyr2021"
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          <p><strong>Important dates</strong></p>
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            <li>Submission of contributions 15 June 2021</li>
            <li>Notification of acceptance 15 July 2021</li>
            <li>Camera-ready contributions 20 August 2021</li>
            <li>Workshop date 25 October 2021</li>
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          <div class="uk-panel uk-panel-box uk-panel-box-secondary">If
            you have any questions regarding the workshop, please do not
            hesitate to contact <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
              href="mailto:administration@informatics-europe.org"
              moz-do-not-send="true">administration@informatics-europe.org</a>
            at any time.</div>
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          <div class="uk-panel uk-panel-box uk-panel-box-secondary">Best
            regards, <br>
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          <div class="uk-panel uk-panel-box uk-panel-box-secondary">Franziska
            Hauffe<br>
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          <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Franziska Hauffe
Communications and Administration Specialist
Informatics Europe
Binzmühlestrasse 14
8050 Zurich
Switzerland</pre>
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