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Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference "Security of Europe in the Age of Civilizational Disputes," organized in Jabłonna near Warsaw by the Forecasting Committee "Poland 2000 Plus" at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. During the session entitled "Political security - socio-political aspects determined by the policy of state and international administration" prof. Cellary delivered a lecture entitled "The role of the State in ensuring cybersecurity”.

The Polish Theater hosted a ceremony of awarding Victoria statuettes awarded by the Student Parliament of the University of Economics in Poznań to the teachers and administrative units of PUE. Prof. Wojciech Cellary was honored with the title of Mentor of the Faculty of Computer Science and Electronic Economy "I am a Legend".
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture entitled "Libraries in the world of virtual and augmented reality" for the participants of the conference "Library - Cyberspace - Communication", which took place in Bydgoszcz on April 12, 2018. The organizers of the conference were Pedagogical Provincial Library in Bydgoszcz and the Library of the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz.

Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, attended the ACM VRIC Laval Virtual Scientific Conference taking place together with the Laval Virtual 2018 exhibition on 4-6 April 2018 in Laval, France. During the session "Interaction and Visualization" prof. Walczak presented a paper entitled "A Contextual Semantic Interaction Interface for Virtual Reality Environments" (authors: Sokołowski, J., and K. Walczak). The Laval Virtual exhibition was one of the largest exhibitions in the world concerning the techniques and applications of virtual reality, visited by over 17000 visitors.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated as a member of the Steering Committee and the Program Committee at the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance ICEGOV 2018, which took place in Galway (Ireland) from April 4 to April 6, 2018. The main conference was preceded by The Doctoral Colloquium for PhD students, co-chaired by prof. Cellary. During the colloqiuum prof. Cellary gave a keynote speach entitled "What is a good PhD Thesis?"

Jakub Flotyński, PhD, completed a month-long internship at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality at the University of Bremen, as part of a prestigious scholarship granted by DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). The Research Short-Term Grant involved a monthly stay at a selected scientific institution in Germany, in the case of Jakub Flotyński it was the Institute for Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality at the University of Bremen, operating under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Gabriel Zachmann.

Adam Wójtowicz, PhD, attended an international conference The 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS 2018, which took place in Funchal (Portugal)< March 21 - 24, 2018. During the session titled "Security and Authentification" Adam Wójtowicz presented a lecture entitled "Face-Based Passive Customer Identification Combined with Multimodal Context-Aware Payment Authorization: Evaluation at Point of Sale" (authors: Wójtowicz, A., J. Chmielewski).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working meeting of the Scientific Council of the International Institute for Molecular Oncology Foundation. The meeting took place at the Institute's headquarters in Poznań.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated as a reviewer in the public defense of the doctoral dissertation entitled "Context-aware User Modeling and Recommendation Generation System", presented by Aleksandra Karpus, the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the Gdansk University of Technology.

Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, participated as an independent expert of the European Commission (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Brussels) in a working session evaluating the progress of the IMMERSIA TV H2020 project.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary visited Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria di Politecnico di Milano at the invitation of prof. Mariagrazzia Fugini. Prof. Cellary participated in a special seminar, during which the possibilities of joint submission of project applications to the H2020 Program and other European programs were discussed.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an international conference The 7th International Conference on Education and Management Innovation ICEMI 2018, which took place in Torino (Italy), February 11 - 13, 2018. Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a keynote speech entitled „Educating managers for emerging cyber-physical world”, he served also as Conference Advisory Chair.

In the Department of Information Technology a scientific seminar took place during which Aleksandra Karpus, M.Sc, from the Gdańsk University of Technology presented her doctoral dissertation entitled „Context-aware User Modelling and Generation of Recommendations in Recommender System”.

Results of the 19th edition of the Golden Mouse Contest announced! The contest was addressed to the 1st year students of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy. The purpose of the contest was to reward the best business project that promotes use of new Internet and mobile technologies in the business process chain. The main criteria of the evaluation were: business model, use of new technologies for organization and management transformation, quality of design. The prizes were founded by the Satntander Group in the framework of Santander Universidades Program and Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. The results were announced during the reward ceremony conducted by Prof. Wojciech Cellary, in the presence of representatives of the Santander Universidades Program, Bank Zachodni WBK S.A and PUEB autorities: Vice-Dean the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, prof. Elżbieta Rychłowska-Musiał, and President of PUEB Foundation, prof. Magdalena Florek. The First Prize went to the team Filip Mazurkiewicz and Kyrylo Mordan, for a project MaaRcals.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The International Conference on Cyber Security - Forging Global Alliances for Cyber Resilience ICCS 2018, which took place in New York, January 8 - 11, 2018. The conference was organized by The Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Office and Fordham University of New York. Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a panel discussion entitled "Cyber Security: An International Problem in Need of International Solutions”.