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"

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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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ERCIM spring meetings 2017 and First ERCIM workshop on Blockchain Technology

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The ERCIM spring meetings 2017 were hosted by Inria on 23-24 May in Paris

As part of the 2017 ERCIM spring meetings in Paris, ERCIM held a half-day workshop on blockchain technology on May 23 2017.  Co-chaired by Georges Gonthier (Inria) and Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT), the workshop provided a high-level overview of blockchain technology and its opportunities for computer science research to the senior-level workshop attendees. The attendees included executives of ERCIM member institutes as well as a number of researchers (see list of attendees).

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Virtual Research Environments: How Researchers Really Collaborate

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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

 

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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.

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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/

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Philipp Hoschka appointed ERCIM Manager


Philipp HoschkaThe 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.

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Highlights

ERCIM News N°110
ERCIM News N°110 Special: Blockchain Engineering
Next issue: October 2017 - Digital Humanities (call for contributions)
H2020 Project management by ERCIM
H2020 project management by ERCIM
ERCIM Programme for PhD Education
ERCIM Programme for PhD Education
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ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme
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ERCIM Flyer: Interested in joining ERCIM?

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