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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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Franziska Hauffe
Communications and Administration Specialist
Informatics Europe
Binzmühlestrasse 14
8050 Zurich
Switzerland</pre>
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