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Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a conference CSR Financial Day 2017 hosted by Poznań University of Economics and Business. During a session „Social Responsibilty of Financial Institutions” he gave an invited lecture „Responsability of financial institutions for personal data protection. Protection or betrayal?”. He participated also in a panel discussion.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary received The Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications Award 2016 - in recognition of merit for the development the Polish ICT industry in 2016.

Jacek Chmielewski, Ph.D, received a post-doctoral habilitation degree from a Council of the Faculty of Computer Science and Management of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Jarogniew Rykowski, Ph.D, attended a conference The 5th Smart City Forum, which was held from 8. to 9. March, 2017, in Warsaw. Prof. Rykowski participated in a panel discussion entitled "New business models and city infrastructure financing".

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended The 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance ICEGOV 2017, with the motto: "Building Knowledge Societies – From Digital Government to Digital Empowerment". The conference took place in New Delhi (India), from 7. to 9. March, 2017. The conference was organized under the patronage of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) as the founder and coordinator of the ICEGOV series. Prof. Cellary served as a member of Steering Committee, he co-chaired also The Doctoral Colloquium which followed the main conference on March 10th, 2017.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Technical Council of the Co-operative Banking Group SGB. Prof. Cellary serves as a president of the Technical Council, which objective is to develop and issue opinions and positions in matters concerning the correct and save operation of the Polish co-operative banking system.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a session of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG). During the session prof. Cellary was re-elected as a member of SAB for the second two years tenure 2017 - 2018.The session took place in Warsaw at the PGNiG premises.

Results of the 18th 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 UEP Vice-Rector for Education and Students. The results were announced during the reward ceremony conducted by Prof. Wojciech Cellary, in the presence of the representative of the PUEB autorities: Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation, prof. Elżbieta Gołata, former Vice-Rector for Education and Students, prof. Jacek Mizerka, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, prof. Krzysztof Malaga,and President of PUEB Foundation, prof. Magdalena Florek. The First Prize went to the team Maciej Bergier and Natalia Chudy for a project entitled Locals.

Krzysztof Walczak, Ph.D, participated as an indenpendent expert of European Commission in a working session evaluating projects submitted to the program ICT-19 Innovation Actions Horizon 2020. The session took place at the premises of European Commission in Brussels.

Jakub Flotyński, Ph.D, received the 2nd degree Individual Award from Minister of Science and Higher Education, Jarosław Gowin. The award is conferred for outstanding scientific achievements and doctoral dissertation with distinctinction. The award ceremony took place on December 9th, 2016 at the premises of Museum of History oof Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 5th Polish – Taiwanese Scientific Seminar, which took place in Taipei (Taiwan) from November 28 to December 2, 2016. This was a seminar for academics and practitioners to exchange ideas and to identify potential areas for collaboration on the topic of Information and Communication Technology. The seminar was organized by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) in the framework of the bilateral cooperation between NCBR and MOST, based on the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, signed on 12 December 2012. Prof. Cellary served as a coordinator of Polish team. He presented also an introducing lecture entitled „Virtual Augmented Reality and Internet of Things: two influential technologies of the future”. The Polish participants were invited to visit some of the most recognized universities in Taipei:

• Academia Sinica
• College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
• Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
• Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
• College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University

Krzysztof Walczak, Ph.D, attended an international conference EuroVR 2016, which took place in Athens (Greece), on November 22 – 24, 2016. The conference was organized by the European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Krzysztof Walczak is a member of the Executive Committee of the EuroVR Association since 2012.

Adam Wójtowicz, Ph.D, attended a conference „Cybertheft”, organized in Warsaw by the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data, and The Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences of the Warsaw University of Technology.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in an international conference The 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2016, which was held in Shanghai China) on 7- 10 November, 2016. Prof. Cellary served as a Program Co-Chair of the WISE Conference, he also co-chaired an inauguration session. Prof. Cellary participated also in a panel discussion entitled „Web and Big Data for Innovation and Sustainable Development: the Good, the Bad, and the Future”.

Krzysztof Walczak, Ph.D, Jakub Flotyński, Ph.D, Rafał Wojciechowski, Ph.D, and Dariusz Rumiński, M.Sc, attended an international conference The 1st European VR Congress, organized in Warsaw by Konferencje Agora. The Congress attended also PUEB students who have been working during summer holidays as interns in DIT’s research labs.