Fwd: First Announcement, IST 2002 - Copenhagen, November 4-6

>From: INFSO-IST2002@cec.eu.int
>To: Jbrewer@w3.org
>Subject: First Announcement, IST 2002 - Copenhagen, November 4-6
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:12:17 +0100
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>IST 2002: Partnerships for the Future
>Europe's leading networking event for Information and Communications
>Technologies
>
>4-6 November 2002, Copenhagen
>
>IST 2002 - co-organised by the European Commission and the Danish EU
>Presidency - will broaden its scope to all European Information Society
>research, whether it be funded at European, national or regional level - or
>even entirely within the private sector.
>
>In short, to develop a European Research Area for the Information Society.
>
>The general theme is therefore 'Partnerships'. The aim is to help Europe's
>researchers and industrialists build networks for collaboration, at a time
>when the IST priority within the EU's 6th Framework Programme for research
>and technological development is getting underway.
>
>DON'T JUST ATTEND IST 2002 - HELP SHAPE IT. The European Commission will
>soon publish an informal Call for Ideas for both specific workshops and
>research exhibits. We expect the response to be high in number and quality.
>The result will be an event tailored to the participants' needs.
>
>This is therefore an event not to be missed by anyone who is actively:
>- Engaged in research
>- Funding research anywhere in Europe through national, regional or private
>initiatives
>- Setting strategic research priorities
>- Seeking to commercially exploit the results of research
>
>IST 2002 is your best opportunity to meet Europe's top researchers and
>decision-makers from the information and communications industries and the
>related public sectors. The event will feature a wide range of workshops
>designed to maximise opportunities for discussion and informal networking.
>
>IST 2002 is organised by Information Society Directorate-General of the
>European Commission and the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and
>Innovation, under the patronage of European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen and
>Minister Helge Sander.
>
>
>Don't miss out
>4-6 November 2002 - Copenhagen
>
>
>
>This announcement is available in a ready-to-print pdf format for further
>dissemination, from
>the Commission's Information Society Newsroom:
>http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/documents/ist2002_first_an
>nouncement.pdf
><http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/documents/ist2002_first_a
>nnouncement.pdf>
>
>Further Information:
>http://www.woco.dk <http://www.woco.dk>  for information on Copenhagen
>http://www.cordis.lu/ist <http://www.cordis.lu/ist>  for information on
>today's IST Research Programme
>
>
>yours sincerely,
>
>the IST 2002 Team.

-- 
Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

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