The European Commission has
just announced the IST 2001 event which this year takes place
in Düsseldorf, December 3-5, under the banner of "Technologies
Serving People". The event follows on from the Commission's
e-2001 conference, which was held in Venice, October 17-19.
Whilst e-2001 was devoted solely
to the topics of eBusiness and eWork, IST 2001 is much wider
in scope, with topics ranging from cybercrime to entertainment
and nano-technology. Both e-2001 and IST 2001 provide a platform
for innovative IST research projects to display and present their
results.
The eBusiness and eWork conference
and the IST event have both become major European Commission
events, offering European IT industries and specialists a unique
opportunity to keep pace with the best of innovation in Europe,
to exchange experiences and ideas and to make or renew key contacts.
e-2001 provided an opportunity
for those interested in future developments within Key Action
II to learn something about future directions in the forthcoming
Framework VI programme of research actions. IST 2001 will also
offer an opportunity to understand the structure and contents
of the 6th Framework for EU research (2002-2006), and the corresponding
Specific Programme for R&D activities in the field of Information
Society Technologies.
IST 2001 is the main event
for the overall IST programme while e-2001 is the conference
for RTD projects in Key Action II of the IST Programme.
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