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The 17th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference will be entitled "Standards and Innovation" and will be held on the 18th-20th of June 2012 at Košice, Slovakia. The organizers of this event will be the Faculty of Economics at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (UMB) the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Košice (TUKE). See below for:
A new EURAS White Paper has been prepared by Wilfried Hesser and Henk de Vries discussing the current situation in standardization education. The paper gives a concise overview about current activities in Europe, Asia as well as on national level. From their analysis of the current situation they derive a set of policy options highlighting the potential of standardization education to further align policy goals regarding standardization at the European level and practice. Among the several policy options they propose a "European Standardization Education Agency", comprising a small group of staff coordinating education activities, which in turn are outsourced to experts within and outside universities in the member states. This agency should have a steering group at the European level in which member countries as well as a variety of European stakeholders are represented. At the national level they propose a parallel structures. You can find the paper among other interesting literature on this topic in the or download it directly using this link.
EURAS-related News and Events
EURAS is involved in organizing an event on standardisation education 29 June 2012 in Brussels. Intention is to have a strategic dialogue on this topic between academia, industry and standards bodies. Read more...
Building Sustainable Communities
The 5th ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference
22–24 April 2013, Kyoto, Japan
EURAS is proud to co-operate with the ITU in their 'Kaleidoscope' series of conferences. Kaleidoscope events aim at bringing together academics and practitioners to work together to identify emerging developments in the ICT sector at a very early stage and to support associated products and services through the development of open standards. The conferences are unique in that they look at these developments not only through a technical lens, but also through a socio-economic one. And by the way - attending a Kaleidoscope conference is free.
Important dates:
- Submission of full paper proposals: 10 September 2012
- Notification of paper acceptance: 12 November 2012
- Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: 3 December 2012
Call for Papers
Non-EURAS News and Events
The IEC and IEEE are for the second time organizing a world-wide Challenge open to Academia from engineering, information technology, economic, political and environmental sciences. They wish to encourage broad participation by teaching and research staff, and are therefore reaching out to you to ask for your help. Online registration (http://www.iecieeechallenge.org) closes on 1 March 2012 and submissions are open until 1 July 2012.
Prizes will be awarded in October 2012 at the IEC General Meeting in Oslo, Norway (winners are invited,all expenses paid). Detailed rules can be found on the http://www.iecieeechallenge.org website.
9th International Conference "Standardization, Prototypes And Quality: A Means Of Balkan Countries' Collaboration" will be held on October 5-6, 2012 in Tirana. After 15 years of serious scientific work, we are proud to announce the institutionalization of the Balkan International Conference moving forward. The 9th Conference will be an excellent opportunity to continue contacts between scientists and specialists from all Balkan countries, as well as from all over the world, to exchange experience and knowledge on all issues of Standardization, focused on quality. Standardization has proved to be the ideal way to collaboration, coordination and harmonization in every human activity, in local as well in international level. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to facilitate the collaboration between Balkan countries through common standards and protypes. Read more...
