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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/ humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu

Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:54:39 +0100 From: ecoss@labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: ECOLEAD Summer School on Collaborative Networks

ECOLEAD Summer School on Collaborative Networks Helsinki, 28.-29.9.06

http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/eco-summerschool/

Conference, http://www.pro-ve.org/

"Collaborative networks of organizations provide a basis for competitiveness, world-excellence, and agility in turbulent market conditions. They can support SMEs to identify and exploit new business potential, boost innovation, and increase their knowledge. Networking of SMEs with large-scale enterprises also contributes to the success of the big companies in the global market. Reinforcing the effectiveness of collaborative networks, mostly based on SMEs, and creating the necessary conditions for making them endogenous reality in the European industrial landscape, are key survival factors."

ECOLEAD (European Collaborative networked Organizations LEADership initiative), is an "Integrated Project" co-funded by the European Commission within 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006). ECOLEAD started in April 2004 and involves 27 partners from 15 countries across Europe, see http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/ecolead/. This project aims to create the necessary strong foundations and mechanisms for establishing the most advanced collaborative and network-based industry society where "most enterprises will be part of some sustainable collaborative networks that will act as breeding environment for the formation of dynamic virtual organizations in response to fast changing market conditions".

Program committee: Hamideh Afsarmanesh (UvA, The Netherlands), Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (UNINOVA, Portugal), Mitja Jermol (JSI, Slovenia), Arturo Molina (ITESM, Mexico), Martin Ollus (VTT, Finland), Ricardo José Rabelo (UFSC, Brazil), Olga Stepankova (CTU, Czech Republic), Klaus Dieter Thoben (BIBA, Germany)

Content. The Summer School will present the current state of the art in theoretical foundations of Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO), Virtual Organizations Management, Professional Virtual Organizations, Virtual organisations Breeding Environment as well as demonstrate recent advances in design and development of corresponding ICT Infrastructures. The presentations of recognized experts in the field will highlight different aspects and viewpoints of this recently established and very active scientific domain with high promises for business world.

Audience. The presented topics will be of specific interest both to attendees from academia (Computer Science, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Business and Economics or Industrial Sociology students, academics and researchers) as well as to engineering and technical professionals and managers. Irrespective of whether you are novice or experienced in the domain of Collaborative Networks the Summer School will be of benefit for you!

For details and registration see http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/eco- summerschool/

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