Main Event Title: eChallenges e-2005 (www.eChallenges.org/2005/)

Date: October 19-21, 2005

Place: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Description: The eChallenges Conference and Exhbition, the fifteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, facilitates exploitation of applied ICT related innovation through knowledge sharing and global community building and help participates leverage on the objectives of European Framework Programmes FP6 and FP7.

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Partnering Event of IST-EC2 at eChallenges:

IST-EC2 booth : Fostering Canada / Europe Collaboration !

Participant could meet the Canadian Delegation present at eChallenges, discuss potential IST project ideas and also view the Canadian catalogue available with more profiles to match their thematic interests.

A Demonstration was displayed at the booth:

C3Grid: Closed Captioning Computing Grid A new made-in Canada technology, looking for European partners, can bring closed captioning to more deaf and hearing impaired people. The Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal (CRIM) has an innovative service that combines speech recognition technology, high speed networks and grid computing to automatically close caption live TV broadcasts in both French and English, and it can accommodate other languages as well. The demonstration will show that speech recognition assisted close captioning is a viable and cost-effective alternative to stenography based closed captioning. CRIM will demonstrate a real-time closed captioning of the Canadian House of Commons Political debate as well as a video of the project.

Workshop 8f: Opportunities for Europe through International Co-operation

(Thursday 20 October, 2005 at 4 p.m.)

An interesting array of international speakers from India, Russia and Canada and from the EC were present.
Debbie Kemp from Communications Research Centre Canada and IST NCP Canada presented for IST-EC2 "the Benefits of Partnering with Canadian Research and Development Organisations", followed by Elliot Macklovitch, Laboratoire RALI, University of Montreal, Canada who provided us an example of a successful collaboration and how it can impact partnerships & collaboration in the future.

Should you need any further information, don't hesitate to contact Concettina Larosa, Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Pisa, Italy c.larosa@cpr.it

Documents and Presentations available from eChallenges

• Download the Catalogue with the Canadian Profiles and more information on IST-EC2, Benefits of International Cooperation Europe-Canada, Information & Communication Technologies R&D in Canada : Catalogue

• View the presentation of Debbie Kemp from Communications Research Centre Canada and IST NCP Canada and Elliot Macklovitch, Laboratoire RALI, University of Montreal held during the workshop "Opportunities for Europe through International Co-operation" : Presentation Debbie Kemp / Elliot Macklovitch

• View the presentation on "Collaborative Commerce Marketplace" held during the networking session : Presentation Collaborative Commerce Marketplace
  
• View the presentation on "INTEROP" a Network of Excellence of FP6 held during the networking session : Presentation INTEROP
• View the presentation on "IST-EC and GET" held during the networking session : Presentation IST-EC and GET
• View the presentation on "NRC-CNRC Institute for Information Technology in Canada"  held during the networking session : Presentation NRC-CNRC
• View the presentation on "GET-Security Projects" Canadian partners are sought for the following 2 projects :
  • Project BUGYO
  • Project DESEREC

 Presentation GET-Security Projects

• View the short film presented by Mr. Syed Naqvi of GET: http://perso.enst.fr/~legrand/Video/M1_Guide2Meeting.mpg