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Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended The 5th European Economic Congress “The Europe of growth. The future of the European economy", which took place in Katowice from May 13 to May 15, 2013. Prof. Cellary was invited to partipate in a session entitled "Telecommunications and Information Society".

The Department of Information Technology hosted Dr. Benjamin Gâteau, Senior R&D Engineer at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg. During the visit Dr. Gâteau has been working together with Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski on a common proposal to be submitted in the framework of the POLLUX Program, launched by The National Research Fund (FNR) in Luxembourg and the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) in Poland.

The Department of Information Technology and The Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO) organized together a conference “Legal and economic aspects of personal data processing” which was held at the Poznan University of Economics. The conference was organized in the framework of The 3rd Open Day of GIODO, a series of events celebrated each year in different city devoted to the popularization of citizens knowledge on personal data protection and processing. During the conference prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture entitled “e-Privacy”, he chaired also a session on private data processing in enterprises and public institutions.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled “Teaching in the age of tablets” to the staff of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN which is the major and most renowned publisher of scientific, educational and professional titles, such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, books etc.

Mr. Daniel Wilusz, PhD student, attended The 4th Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems DoCEIS’13, which took place in Lisbon from Aprli 15 to April 17, 2013. During the conference Mr. Daniel Wilusz presented a paper entitled “The Architecture of Coupon-based, Semi-off-line, Anonymous Micropayment System for Internet of Things” (authors: Rykowski, J., D. Wilusz).

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in a working meeting of ministerial expert group for the development of IT infrastructure for research, an advisory body to Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. The meeting took place in Warsaw.

Mr. Paweł Dąbrowski and Mr. Dariusz Rumiński participated in one-week training course „Java SE7 Programming Ed2 PRV”, organized in the framework of Oracle University for institutions and universities participating in Oracle Academy Program. The course took place in Wrocław Uniwersity of Technology labs.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entlitled “e-Privacy” to participants of The 10th Conference of High School Network Administrators which was held in Nowy Tomyśl near Poznań. The main topic of the conference was e-Education as a chance to improve teaching quality.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a debate of experts organized in Warsaw by The National Centre for Research and Development. The debate was devoted to innovation.

Dr. Michał Wódczak participated as a Vice-Chairman at a standarisation meeting of a Working Group “Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet” (AFI), acting in the framework of Industry Specification Groups (ISG) of The European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI. The meeting took place in ETSI premises in Sophia Antipolis (France).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an information meeting organized by The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) together with Fonds National de la Recherche (Luxembourg) launching POLLUX - the 2nd call for proposal in the field of innovation in services, based on the Cooperation Agreement signed on 8 November 2011 between Poland and Luxembourg. The meeting took place in FNR premises in Luxembourg.

Mr. Jakub Flotyński and Mr. Dariusz Rumiński participated in The 10th International Conference on Multimedia in Business and Management which took place in Częstochowa (Poland). During the conference Mr. Flotyński presented a paper „Attribute-Based Semantic Description of Interactive 3D Web Content” (authors:Flotyński, J., K. Walczak), and Mr. Rumiński presented a paper entitled "Augmented Reality Authoring Tool for Virtual Exhibitions" (authors: Rumiński, D., K. Walczak).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Council for Informatization, an advisory body to the Minister of Administration and Digitization. The meeting took place in Warsaw, in the ministry premises.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak particpated as an independent expert of European Commission in a second evaluation of proposals submitted to FP 7 Objective 1.6 ICT - Connected and Social Media, Call 10. The session took place in Brussels.

The Department of Information Technology hosted Dr. Tomasz Janowski, a Senior Research Fellow at The United Nations University UNU-IIST (Macao, Chiny, where he founded and heads the Center for Electronic Governance. He gave an open lecture entitled „Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development – Conceptual Framework and State of Research”.