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Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, has successfully completed the 8 weeks W3C DEV CAMPUS online course "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices". The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international organization developing protocols and quidelines of the Web.

The ABB Group has annouced the results of the 1st ABB Software Research Grant Program. Over 65 applications from all the world have been submitted to the contest. After two rounds evaluation process only three projects were selected. Among three winning proposals is a project submitted by Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, entitled „Ubiquitous mobile user interfaces for industrial monitoring and control applications UbiqUI”. The winner receives 50 K USD grant for research combined with industrial application.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended as an invited panelist an international conference The 5th Bahrain International eGovernment Forum BIEF 2012, which took place in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chaiman of the Supreme Committee of ITC in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Prof. Cellary presented a lecture entitled „Privacy in the light of Future of IT Technologies” in the framework of the Cyber Law and Public Private Partnership Workshop joined with the main conference.

Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, has been elected as a member of the new Executive Committee of The EuroVR Association , an international non-profit Association designed to bring together all those interested in VR/AR Technologies and to pursue the development and further deployment of such technologies.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a second CHIST-ERA Evaluation Panel of the Call 2011 for the topic "From Data to New Knowledge". CHIST-ERA is a European network of national research funding agencies on ICT which is supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies programme of the European Commission. The second evaluation session took place in Paris, in the premises of the Agence National de Recherche.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an international conference Renaissance for eGovernance & Europe 2012 - Envisioning conference - Futures of eGovernance in Central Eastern Europe, which was held in Bled (Slovenia) from 6th to 8th March, 2012. The conference was organized by a governmental organization Centre for eGovernance Development. Prof. Cellary has been invited to represent Poland during a session entitled Country’s Presentation: Renaissance for eGovernance & CEE - Good Practice Case Resolution. Prof. Cellary presented Polish good practice case „e-Court - Electronic Writ-of-Payment Proceeding”.

Results of the 13th 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 Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., the main sponsor of the contest. The results were announced during the reward ceremony hosted by Prof. Wojciech Cellary, in the presence of the representatives of sponsors, and the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, prof. Emil Panek. The First Prize went to a team Mateusz Jóźwicki i Patryk Kamiński for a projekt entitled e-ROOm

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a CHIST-ERA Evaluation Panel of the Call 2011 for the topic "From Data to New Knowledge". CHIST-ERA is a European network of national research funding agencies on ICT which is supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies programme of the European Commission. The evaluation session took place in Paris, in Agence National de Recherche premises.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in an International Conference on Cyber Security - a Global Solution to Emerging Cyber Threats ICCS 2012, organized by Federal Bureau of Investigation and Fordham University. The conference took place in New York (USA) from January 9 to January 12, 2012. Prof. Cellary participated in a panel session entitled "Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing".

Dr Jacek Chmielewski received a grant in the framework of the ABB Software Research Grant Program for a project entited “Ubiquitous mobile user interfaces for industrial monitoring and control applications (UbiqUI)". The project starts on January 2012.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited by Michal Boni, Minister of Administration and Digitization, to join the Council of Digitization, an advisory body to the Minister.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Scientific Council of the Institut Télécom SudParis.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary received an individual Award of the Rector of the Poznan University of Economics for starting up a new M.Sc Programme "Applications of Internet Technology", conducted jointly by the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Business of the Poznan University of Economics, the Faculty of Physics of the Adam Mickiewicz University and the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Poznan University of Technology.