Info Days on IST

for Central America & Mexico:
Mexico City, 16 March 2000

for South America:
Rio de Janeiro, 4 April 2000
Buenos Aires, 26 June 2000

A European Union - Latin America Initiative for Cooperation in Information Society Technologies

Action A2: Diffusion, concertation and proposals in the area of science and technology

Home page of the programme with full description of all Actions: http://www.ahciet.es/eu-la/english.htm

Info Day Rio de Janeiro, 4 April 2000

Topics and papers Presenter
Welcome Rector of PUC - P. Jesus Hortal Sanchez, S.J.
Brazilian policy on S&T cooperation with the EU Carlos Pacheco - Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology
The International Cooperation
within the Brazilian Information Society Program
Carlos Lucena - in charge of International Cooperation Group of the Brazilian Information Society programme
Presentation of the e-Europe Initiative Stefano Gatto - EU Delegation in Brasilia
Presentation of current IST WP 2000 Mario Campolargo, DG Information Society -European Commission
Participation possibilities of locals. Local procedures and help to integrate IST projects. Virgilio Almeida - Scientific Director of ProTemCC Programme
Presentation of the experience of a Brazilian partner in EU projects Ricardo Rabelo - Federal University of Santa Catarina -Florianopolis
Questions and answers to the panel Panel composed of local representatives, ERCIM experts and European Commission.
Practical aspects of IST project participation - Examples of ERCIM EU projects [ppt] [pdf] Bruno Le Dantec, ERCIM
Presentation of GMD - Examples of EU projects Gilbert Kalb/Eckart Bierduempel - GMD
Presentation of INRIA -Examples of EU projects Marie-Christine Imbert - INRIA
Individual meetings of researchers with EU Delegation (on demand at reception desk) EU Delegation:
Dr. Mario Campolargo, European Commission, IST programme, Research Networking Unit
Dr. Eckart Bierduempel , GMD Germany, Director for International Relations (http://www.gmd.de/)
Dr. Gilbert Kalb, GMD Germany, Responsible for European Affairs
Bruno Le Dantec, ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics, Deputy Manager (http://www.ercim.eu/)
Dr. Marie-Christine Imbert, INRIA France, Responsible for European Affairs
and Latin America, coordinator of the ERCIM Task Force for Latin America
(http://www.inria.fr/)


ERCIM has been designated by the European IST (Information Society Technologies) programme to propose the Terms of Reference of a future EU-Latin America programme in this field.
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