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    Dear Colleagues, <br>
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              <p>Informatics Europe is extending the submission deadline
                for the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/career-development-workshop.html"><b>Professional
                    Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers</b></a>
                to <b>30 June</b>. The workshop will take place in
                Madrid as part of the ECSS 2021 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 early
                career 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>Participants of the workshop will attend invited talks
                and have the opportunity to actively participate in
                discussions. Moreover, they can submit their CV and a
                research statement, 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 and the early
                career 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>
              CVs (up to 2 pages) and research statements (up to 5
              pages) formatted in the LIPICS style should be merged in a
              single file and submitted via EasyChair here: <a
                href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcdyr2021"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcdyr2021</a>.
              <span lang="EN-US">In the EasyChair form please include
                also the title of your research, a short abstract
                summarizing in a couple of lines your research statement
                as a set of relevant keywords.</span>
              <p><strong>Important dates</strong></p>
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                <li>NEW: Submission of contributions 30 June 2021</li>
                <li>Notification of acceptance 15 July 2021</li>
                <li>NEW: Camera-ready contributions 15 September 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 <span lang="EN-US"><span
                    id="cloak4205269bbabe7091bf4216d7c9db3d97"><a
                      href="mailto:wcdyr2021@easychair.org"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">wcdyr2021@easychair.org</a></span></span>.</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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