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ERCIM goes Open Access
read the section "Open Access - Open Science" in ERCIM News 107 and the report "Towards an Open Access Policy for ERCIM"
read the section "Open Access - Open Science" in ERCIM News 107 and the report "Towards an Open Access Policy for ERCIM"
Cooperating for Excellence in Research
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM.
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Virtual Research Environments: How Researchers Really Collaborate
ERCIM is taking a leading role in Europe for driving research activities in VRE. This demonstrated by the contributions featured in a section of of ERCIM News 109. How researchers collaborate is per se a research topic! Many scientific problems are related across different domains: for example, the global climate changes involve knowledge from eco-system, ocean, atmosphere and earth as well as from energy science and human-related activity modelling. Scientists face great challenges in handling collaboration among different disciplines and in modelling and discovering knowledge in massively available data from a wide diversity of domains. Today, data-driven approaches are considered as good alternatives to drive scientific research activities.
Read the whole section at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en109/research-and-society-virtual-research-environments
ERCIM spring meetings 2017 and workshop on "Blockchain Technology"
The ERCIM spring meetings 2017 were hosted by Inria on 23-24 May in Paris
In conjunction with the ERCIM spring meetings, a workshop on blockchain technology was held on 23 May, chaired by Wolfgang Prinz from Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and Georges Gonthier from Inria. 27 people participated in the workshop.
W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee receives ACM Turing Award
Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, co-hosted by ERCIM, receives the 2016 ACM Turing Award.
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
12 March was the 28th birthday of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web writes about how the web has evolved, why he is worried about recent trends, and what must be done to in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a tool which serves humanity. Read the full message at http://webfoundation.org/2017/03/web-turns-28-letter/
Philipp Hoschka appointed ERCIM Manager
The ERCIM EEIG board of Directors has appointed Philipp Hoschka as manager of the ERCIM EEIG. Philipp Hoschka took office on 1st of December. He succeeds Jérôme Chailloux who served as manager since May 2005.
