Preliminary Report

- Building the new EU-CIS projects for IST

The call for application to Kishinev workshop containing information about venue, programme committee, organizing committee, themes of the conference and EU and CIS organizations and projects invited, audience, general schedule of the conference, submission of abstracts and registration together with exhibition form and registration form, deadlines, accommodations, conference and exhibition fees, addresses and current accounts have been installed on Moldovian WISTCIS IDC and RENAM Web-sites, as well as on WISTCIS major Web-site and were visible on the Internet.

Audience

The major audience represented environmental, research and educational communities of Moldova including teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of universities. The workshop was also widely advertised in all the seven CIS countries participating in WISTCIS project. Thus, representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and the Ukraine took part in the workshop. Numerous international telematics projects that have been going on in collaboration of EU and CIS countries were presented at the workshop. Representatives of IST projects as well as of other EU telematics initiatives were speakers at the workshop. Organisations and individual specialists in modern information technologies for environmental studies, general research as well as scientists, university teachers, and representatives of ministries and governmental departments were invited on the workshop.

Organizing Committee

Conference languages

English, Moldovian, Russian

Brand new: Manual on teleworking for CIS audience was disseminated at the workshop.

Workshop venue

Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Administrative Block, Large Conference Hall
1, Stefan cel Mare Bul.
Kishinev MD-2001 Moldova

General schedule of the Workshop

21 June 2001, Thursday

Early morning - Opening session
Late morning - Telematics and Networking Support in Natural Hazard Studies
Early afternoon - General Research, Environmental and Earth Sciences Telematics Projects
Late afternoon - Training Course on the EC Fifth Framework Programme
Evening - Reception

22 June 2001, Friday

Early morning - Telematics Support for Natural Hazards in Moldova
Late morning - New EU-CIS Projects for IST
Afternoon -
Section 1: Training course on IST Programme
Training course on the EC Fifth Framework Programme
Section 2: Seminar on the manual on teleworking for the CIS audience
Late afternoon - Closing of the Workshop

Training Courses

Training course 1: European Union: background, objectives and opportunities

The course covers the basic items of the European Union. Starting with subjects like the history, organisation and objectives an overview of the policy developed by the European Commission to achieve their objectives will be given. Special attention will be given to the Fifth Framework Programme (FFP), which will be discussed in more detail. This scheme can fund or facilitate co-operative research projects executed by business and research institutes and which can also be joined by organisations based in CIS countries.

Training course 2: Information Society Technologies Programme

One of the subjects of the FFP focuses on Information Technologies for Society. A work programme has been developed by the European Commission, where action items are described, which contribute to the objectives of the Commission. Companies and research organisations are invited to propose projects that can contribute to the realisation of the action items. The different lectures (5) give an overview of the action items (Key Actions), requirements for eligibility of a project, how to prepare a proposal and how to execute an awarded proposal. Special attention will be given to the role and opportunities of CIS countries.

Photos from the workshop

Opening of the workshop: Prof. Acad. Andrei Andriesh, President of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Co-President of RENAM Association, greets the participants

Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President, presents WISTCIS project

At the business meeting: Dr. Peter Bogatencov, RENAM Association (center), Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President (right)

In front of the building of Academy of Sciences of Moldova: Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President (left), Prof. Erik Peplow, Germany (right)

At the business meeting, left to right: Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President, Mr. Jacques Babot, WISTCIS project officer, EC IST, Dr. Grigore Secrieru, RENAM Association

At the official event, left to right: Dr. V. Sidorenco, Moldova, Prof. Acad. Anatol Drumea, Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Dr. Jacques Zlotnici, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President

Mr. Jacques Babot, WISTCIS project officer, makes the speech

Discussing the project, left to right: Prof. Acad. Andrei Andriesh, President of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Co-President of RENAM Association, Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, EDNES Vice-President, Prof. Jean Bonnin, EDNES President

At the official event, left to right: Dr. Jacques Zlotnici, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, Prof. Jean Bonnin, EDNES President, Mr. Jacques Babot, WISTCIS project officer