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 Mexico City, 16 March 2000
Programme and Presentations

Topic Presenter
Welcome
Bienvenida		 Ing. Diódoro Guerra Rodríguez - General Director IPN
Answer and presentation of European participants
Respuesta y presentacion de participantes europeos 		Marie-Christine Imbert - INRIA
Description and types of actions that are funded by the IST
programme. Presentation: The Fifth Framework Programme - Creating a User-Friendly Information Society [ppt] [pdf]
Descripcion del programa IST y de los tipos de acciones que
financia		 Jean-Yves Roger, European Commission
Presentation of the EU-Mexico Liaison Centre Embajador Manuel Armendáriz E.
Coordinador General del Centro de Enlace México-Unión Europea
Presentation of the current IST WP 2000 Marie-Christine Imbert - INRIA
Presentation of GMD (http://www.gmd.de/ ) Gilbert Kalb
Presentation of UPC (http://www.upc.es/) Ulises Cortes
Presentation of INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/) slides: [ppt] [pdf] Marie-Christine Imbert, INRIA
The path to a proposal, what a European
co-ordinator expects from his partners, contractuel aspects. [ppt] [pdf]
El camino hacia una propuesta, descripcion de lo que un coordinador europeo espera de sus
partners, aspectos contractuales.		 Bruno Le Dantec ERCIM
Conclusion.
Conclusion		 Marie-Christine Imbert - INRIA
Questions to the panel of experts
Preguntas al panel de expertos		 Panel composed of:
panel de expertos compuesto por:
  • Dr. Jean-Yves Roger, European Commission, Responsible for Relations with Latin America on Information Society Technologies (http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html)
  • Dr. Gilbert Kalb, GMD Germany, Responsible for European Affairs (http://www.gmd.de/ )
  • Dr. Ulises Cortes, UPC Universidad Politécnica de Catalunia Espana, Professor and Delegate of the Rector for Latin America (http://www.upc.es/)
  • 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/)
Co-operations
Presentation of the Natural Language and Text Processing Laboratory, Centro de Investigación en Computación del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (http://www.cic.ipn.mx/): Projects and Research Directions [ppt] [pdf] Dr. Alexander Gelbukh

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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