Newsletter #1
after the meeting in Vienna, Austria, 7th-11th December 2009
First group of 15 young media makers met in the framework of My Science Programme to get to know about Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Meeting of participants from Poland, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Portugal, France, Lietuania and Estonia took place at the University of Vienna.
Participants
I came here, because I thought it might be interesting to have these three projects compared for my professional and academic experience. European science is more and more relying on FP7 projects. National projects are not as they used to be, when there was one stabile structure. Project management is a new skill, that scientists are learning and it was good to hear them talking about the way they got involved in the projects, ex. how they spent one year writing an application of the project. -- said Piotr Toczyski from Poland.
I wanted to strenghten my competences about IT and tried to find a better way of involving computer science in practic and innovative way ex. interactive web transistions in systems of integrations, information common and open platforms - said Enrico Minora, Italy.
Watch, what else participants of My Science meeting in Vienna are saying about themselves and about their gathering:
Some othere insights can be found on participants forum, where comments were made during the meeting and on My Science Twitter.
Written Evaluation of participants to be found under the link [excel file].
Program
Participants had an opportunity to listen to the scientists from Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna during seminars and project presentations and to speak with them personally (full programme to be found under the link):
Prof. Siegfried Benkner, Head of the Department was speaking about Scientific computing infrastructures and applications
Computers can do everything, but they don’t have human creativity.
Computers evolve so fast each 18 months, that we won’t have not space to mantain all the information that they create.
Presentation of Prof. Siegfried Benkner 1; part 2 -- Infrastructures and applications -- Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Gerhard Engelbrecht, PhD and Martin Köhler presented project and possible applications of @neurIST: Integrated Biomedical Informatics for the Management of Cerebral Aneurysms. Project funded under the 6th Framework Programme of European Commission.
Project has 33 partners and budget of around 17.5 milion euro.
Presentation of Martin Koehler - FP7 project @neurist- Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Prof. Peter Brezany talked about Scientific data management.
Presentation of Prof. Peter Brezany 1; part 2 -- Scientific data management -Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Ivan Janciak, PhD was presenting project ADMIRE: Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe funded under the 7th Framework Programme of European Commission.
You can see some people from scientific research to business. They used to do grid computing, now they are doing cloud computing.
ADMIRE connects 6 partners and has a budget of around 4.3 milion euro.
Presentation of Ivan Janciak, PhD 1; part 2 -- FP7 project ADMIRE- Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Prof. Eduard Mehofer spoke about Parallel Computing Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation of Prof. Eduard Mehofer -- Parallel Computing Challenges and Opportunities -- Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Sabri Pllana, PhD presented PEPPHER project: Performance Portability and Programmability for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures, funded under the 7th Framework Programme of European Commission.
Presentation of Sabri Pllana, PhD 1; part 2; part 3 -- FP7 project PEPPHER -- Department of Scientific Computing -- University of Vienna
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Wilfried Gansterer, PhD from Research Lab Computational Technologies and Applications was speaking about Computational technologies and applications.
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During the meeting, participants visited the supercomputer labolatories:
[click on the photo, to enlarge]
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Dorian Karatzas (Head of Sector, Ethics Review, DG Research, European Commission) on
Ethics and research in EU-funded projects
Science is the Holy Grail, independent science is really good to develop our world, but we must have rules
Considering drugs, many people protest against drug testing on animals. But when you or your relatives are in danger, drug testing is no longer statistics, its a personal issue and we expect drugs to be properly tested.
Presentation of Isidoros Karatzas -- Ethics Review and the FP7 Ethics Framework -- European Commission
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Participants had also an opportunity to get to know:
European ICT research in the context of FP7 Programme from the presentation of Manfred Halver from Austrian National Contact Point for ICT.
Presentation of Manfred Halver -- ICT research in Europe with focus on FP7 -- FFG
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Research activities at the University Vienna presented by Lucas Zinner, PhD from Research Services and International Relations, University of Vienna.
Presentation of Lucas Zinner, PhD -- Research Services and International Relations, University of Vienna
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They met also Petra Herczeg, PhD from Department of Journalism and Communication Science, University of Vienna and Rainer Rosenberg from The Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF) to talk about The Needs of Public and Journalism in Europe.
Presentation of Petra Herczeg, PhD and Rainer Rosenberg - The needs of public and journalism in Europe -- Department of Journalism and Communication Service -- University of Vienna and Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF
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Theresa Dirtl spoke about press services of University of Vienna.
Presentation of Theresa Dirtl -- Press and online media -- Public Relations and Event Management -- University of Vienna
Comming soon:
Science journalism know how:
What Sigrid Hechensteiner, PhD, editor-in-chef of Academia magazine adviced about writing about science in popular media.
More findings of My Science meeting in Vienna, sources of information about ICT, tips for media coverage of science and media products made during and after the meeting in Vienna.
Next meeting:
Stem Cell, Nuclear Transfer Cloning
25th-29th January 2010 -- BioTalentum, Gödöllő, Hungary
The second team of 15 young media makers had a meeting in Hungary about The Stem Cells and Nuclear Transfer Cloning technologies workshop at BioTalentum.
Next issue of the newsletter is comming soon.
