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Events
in 1999/2000:
July-August
'99 September '99 October
'99 February 2000 June
2000
Events
in 2000
Network
Launched
In March1999
the EU-India Innovation project was launched with a conference
and workshops that were held in Delhi and Ludhiana, India. Indian
project partners extended a warm welcome to this new and exciting
initiative funded by the European Union. These events were attended
by delegates of the participating universities and invited entrepreneurs
and was the first opportunity for partners to come together
and get to know of each other’s interests and begin the
serious work of cross cultural collaborative activities. In
this day of information technology everyone was of the opinion
that the sharing of information between various countries of
Europe and India will be of immense value for improving ongoing
teaching, research and development programmes for the future.
The workshop/seminar
programmes and public symposium on "From Agriculture to Industrial
Society in the Global Information Economy" at the Punjab Agricultural
University (PAU) Ludhiana on 4 and 6 March provided a forum
for extending the university network to entrepreneurs and members
of the public and for disseminating information about the key
activities of the project. The events received extensive coverage
from the media and reporters from various new agencies who attended
various sessions and interviewed some of the delegates. Dr.
G S Kalkat, Vice Chancellor and senior members of the PAU welcomed
the network delegates from Europe and India. Possible
areas and specialisations where collaboration between the PAU
and EU-India Network can be organised were explored.
An open
workshop was held at NISTADS on 9th March 1999 at
which the key activities of the project were disseminated. The
workshop delegates were welcomed by Dr. S Prutti, Acting Director
of NISTADS. Key areas of research were introduced to researchers
from the host institution.
The visiting
network partners also had the opportunity to participate in
a Kisan Mela (an information and technology transfer event for
rural development) run by Punjab Agriculture University in a
remote part of North East Punjab. This event brings together
regional farmers, local communities and researchers into a public
forum at the PAU research Centre to hear from researchers and
practitioners about new developments in training, innovation,
agro-industry and bio-technology, and to buy seeds for the new
season. About 50 academics attended this event in addition to
about 1000 local participants in the outreach programme and
the event gave the delegates the opportunity to see University-Community
interaction at first hand.
Events In 1999
July
-August 1999
Delhi University
There was
a meeting of the science teachers of Delhi University to discuss
a new science curriculum and to work out the 11 common modules
of undergraduate science curriculum. There was also a meeting
to discuss the introduction of IT based education and the computer
networking of colleges.
In August
99 there was a meeting between the Institute of Mass Communication
and experts in multimedia to discuss orientation and training
programmes at Delhi University
NISTADS
and Delhi University had a joint meeting with enterprises participating
in a NISTADS project on innovation to discuss the possibility
of introducing joint six monthly teaching modules as part of
Delhi University’s new science curriculum. This was scheduled
for September.
For further
information contact:
Dr Ashok Jain
Delhi University, South Campus.
Email :ashokjain_du@yahoo.com
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September
1999
13-17
September
University of Brighton,
An inaugural
European Conference, with workshops and seminars was planned
for September. Indian and European Researchers participated
in a workshop discussions together with series of guest lectures
and a seminar programme.
This event
was of interest to postgraduate students, academic staff and
entrepreneurs in the areas of information, communication and
media technologies, technology transfer and sustainable development,
social, economic and entrepreneurial innovations and industrial
cultures and the global economy.
Papers were
invited in one or a combination of the following areas:
- The networked
society and the local global nexus
- Entrepreneurial
networking and socio-economic innovations
- Multimedia
and the enterprise culture
- Human
capacity building in the knowledge society
- Social
and cultural spaces in virtual cities and virtual communities
- Community
networking and socio-economic cohesion
- The global
university and life long learning
- The university
of industry and life long innovation
- Enterprise
innovation and enterprise networking in the Global economy
- Cross
cultural knowledge transfer
The one
day conference was of particular interest to policy makers,
industry, civic organisations, community groups, government
bodies, development agencies, NGOs and the media.
For further
information contact:
Lishka Everett
EU India Network Coordination Cente,
Email:l.everett@brighton.ac.uk
18-24
September
University of Wales College (UWCN), Newport,
A four day
workshop on "Multimedia and Cultural Industries" took place
at University of Wales, College Newport on 21- 24th
September 1999. Participants included project partners from
Delhi, NISTADS, PAU and GLS Institute, Gujerat. At the same
time exchanges of senior researchers took place between PAU
and Lyngby and Gujerat and Aachen.
For further
information contact:
David Smith
University of Wales College Newport,
Email: d.smith@newport.ac.uk
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October
1999
17-19
October
Istituto per il Lavoro (IpL), Bologna,
The Institute
of Labour Foundation (IpL) organised an international seminar
on "The role of intermediate institutions for social stability
and democracy" in October 1999. The first such event of this
kind was held at the 11th World Congress of Industrial
Relations held in Bologna and since then participants have expressed
a strong interest in another event to exchange experiences with
regard to work and labour within the framework of structural
changes in society. The themes of workshops were as follows:
- Employment
and Development
- The Position
of the Trade Unions and the Employers Associations
- The Role
of Conflict
- The Importance
of Social Progress and Participation
- The Meaning
of ‘Public Good’.
For further
information contact:
Dr Volker Telljohann,
Istituto per il Lavoro,
Email: v.telljohann@ipielle.emr.it
February
2000
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June
2000
15-17
June
University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen,
The International
Federation of Automatic Control held the 7th Symposium
on Automated Systems Based on human skills. This was held in
Aachen, Germany in June 2000 and will bring together researchers
and developers. The discussion areas were:
- The role
of the individual human operator at the work place
- Work-groups
supported by technology
- Networks
of groups and enterprises
- The impact
of control and information technology on society at large
- The impact
of technology on the natural environment.
- The Control
Challenge in the 21st Century.
For further
information contact:
VDI/VDE-GMA,
PO Box 101139,
D-40002 duesseldorf,
Germany.
Email: rosenzweig@vdi.de
Web site:International
Federation of Automatic Control
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