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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.

Sergiusz Strykowski, Ph.D, Jarogniew Rykowski, Ph.D, and Rafał Wojciechowski, Ph.D, participated in an international scientific and educational conference „Virtual Game Method in Higher Education”, organized by The Poznan University of Economics and Business within project no. 2014-1-PL01-KA203-003548, entitled “Virtual Game Method in Higher Education (GAMES),conducted in years 2014-2016 and financed by the Erasmus+ Programme. Dr. Sergiusz Strykowski served as a member of Scientific Committee, he chaired also a session entitled „ICT technologies in modern higher education”. During the conference Jarogniew Rykowski presented a paper entitled “Modern Information Technology for Urban Games”. Rafał Wojciechowski presented a paper “Virtual and Augmented Reality at Poznan University of Economics and Business”.

Jakub Flotyński, PhD, received a research stipend from the Poznan City Council for outstanding achievements in research and publications in recognized international journals, and for receiving the Ph.D. degree with distinction. The stipend handed out The Mayor of the City of Poznań, Jacek Jaśkowiak.

Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, participated as an invited expert in a third edition of „Workshop for Doctoral Students and Young Researchers in Information Technology”, organized in Kazimierz Dolny (Poland) by the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Prof. Rykowski served also as a member of Best Paper Award Committee.

On the occasion of The Commission of National Education Day the Rector of The Poznan University of Economics and Business conferred awards to:

  • Wojciech Cellary and Jarogniew Rykowski – The 1st Grade Team Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in research and publications in recognized international journals;
  • Jacek Chmielewski, Jakub Flotyński, Dariusz Rumiński, and Adam Wójtowicz – The 2nd Grade Team Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in research and publications in recognized international journals;
  • Jacek Chmielewski, Jarogniew Rykowski, and Krzysztof Walczak - The 1st Grade Team Achievement Award for creation and developing research laboratories under the project "Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research PUEB- InnoUEP".

The Department of Information Technology once more participated in European Researchers' Night in Poznan. The event was organized as part of a project 2016EPICNIGHT, financed from the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. All the events took place - simultaneously - on Friday 30 September, in over 250 cities across Europe and neighbouring countries. The Polish visitors had a chance to visit our Virtual Reality Laboratory.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a meeting of international experts of an European Commisssion AAL Programme (Active and Assisted Living Programme). The main objective of the workshop was to discuss the call text for the next call for proposals, planned for 2017. The workshop was hosted by Austrian Research Promotion Agency in Vienna (Austria).

Jarogniew Rykowski, Ph.D, attended The 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks WSN'2016, which took place in Gdańsk (Poland) from September 11 to September 14, 2016, under umbrella of The Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS 2016. During the WSN Conference Jarogniew Rykowski presented a paper entitled „Digital signing for short-message broadcasted traffic in BLE marketing channel”,

The Department of Information Technology hosted a research team from the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg (Germany), headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger. The main goal of the visit was to discuss a closer research cooperation between the Department of Information Technology and the Herder Institute.