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Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to the Program Committee of the 21th International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW2022), which will be held in Kanazawa, Japan, 27-29 September 2022

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to join as International Co-Chair the Organizing Committee of the 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network taking place May 30 - June 4, 2022 in Vienna, Austria.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to the Program Committee of the Tenth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments WEB 2022, May 22-26, 2022 - Venice, Italy.

Prof. Jean-Luc Schneider, science and university cooperation attaché of the French Embassy in Warsaw, visited the Department of Information Technology to get acquainted with the scientific research conducted in the domains of Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity.

A team of students from SKN AKAI took part in the National Championship in designing computer games "Cyberiada" organized by the Foundation for Creativity, Education and Youth Animation “Teatrikon” within the IT Talent Development Program of the Ministry of Digitization. The team developed a game addressing the issue of Alzheimer's disease and qualified for further stages of the competition. Congratulations!

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the meeting of the Advisory Group for Research Infrastructure, operating at the Ministry of Education and Science in Warsaw.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in a meeting of the Executive Committee of the EuroXR Association. The aim of the meeting was to elect the association's authorities for the new term.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to the Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET 2022) to be held in Limassol and Nicosia (Cyprus), October 4-7, 2022.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to the Scientific Committee of the the 1st International Conference on Extended Reality (Salento XR 2022) to be held in Lecce (Italy), July 6-8, 2022.

Project LIDER titled "Creation and exploration of multimedia environments and content for training staff in Industry 4.0 with virtual and augmented reality and domain knowledge representation", prepared by a team lead by dr inż. Jakub Flotyński has been selected for funding by the National Centre for Research and Development. The industrial partner implementing project results is Amica S.A.

Dr. Daniel Wilusz has been invited to the Program Committee of the "15th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems 2022 - IS 2022", which will be held on 12 - 14 March 2022 in Porto, Portugal.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated remotely as a panelist in a seminar organized by the Polish Economic Society together with the Polish Society for Cooperation with the Club of Rome titled "Functioning of state institutions after digital revolution" as part of the "Forum of Strategic Thought". He gave a short presentation entitled. "Digital documents as a basis for functioning of state institutions" and took part in the panel discussion.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak received the "Star of the Researchers' Night" award during the 15th anniversary gala of the Researchers' Night. The award was given to the UEP Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory team for many years of organizing attractive activities during the Researchers' Night and for demonstrating practical use of VR and AR techniques to the audience.

Professor Krzysztof Walczak appeared live in the studio of Researchers' Night 2021 giving an interview on virtual and augmented reality techniques and applications.

Professor Wojciech Cellary was interviewed by the Polish Radio Poznan on the importance of mathematics in today's society.