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"Information Society, Culture, Education" - International Conference
The 12th Annual International Conference, EVA 2009 Moscow, Russia, 30 November - 1 December 2009
The conference welcomes representatives of intergovernmental and international non-governmental organisations, public authorities in the sphere of culture, education, science, information and communications; experts from business, civil society, research and education communities; mass media; political and public figures, and leading experts.
The 12th Annual International Conference EVA2009 Moscow will be held 30 November - 1 December 2009 in the M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (Moscow, Russian Federation). EVA Moscow is one of a series of annual conferences, have been held since 1990 in Florence, London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Harvard (USA), Gifu (Japan), Beijing, Vienna, Jerusalem and other cities of the world.
EVA2009 Moscow theme: Information Society, Culture, Education
The main organisers of the conference are the European Commission, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Centre on the Problems of Informatisation in the sphere of Culture (Centre PIC), M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Inter-regional Center for Library Co-operation. The conference is supported by the Russian Committee of the UNESCO “Information for All” Programme, the Russian Branch of ICOMOS, the Russian Branch of ICOM, the Russian Library Association, the Russian State Art Library, ADIT, EVA Conferences International.
The conference will discuss the following issues:
- Russian and International Programmes and Projects, International Co-operation; Intercultural Dialogue; Presentation of the FP7 and eContentPlus projects, EUROPEANA, ATHENA;
- Information society technologies in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, universities, contemporary art;
- From information society to knowledge society: digitisation of and access to cultural and scientific heritage;
- Multilingual access to information; Legal issues; Technologies, Standards and Meta-Data;
- Cultural portals;
- Digital heritage preservation and long-term access;
- Digitisation cost reduction; New services for citizens; Culture and business;
- Culture for Education – Education for Culture.
The conference covers plenary sessions, thematic sections, round tables, seminars, workshops, an exhibition and a festival.
Some of the events:
- The 8th Annual International Conference “Information Resources and Technologies for Non-Movable heritage Preservation”
- Presenting ICT in culture of Russian regions
- Exhibition “Multimedia in Culture, Art and Education”
- The 14th Festival of Creative Interactive Multimedia “Content – 2009”
- Events organised by the Russian Committee of the UNESCO “Information for ALL” Programme.
The Conference materials and the illustrated exhibition catalogue will be published on the conference WEB-site and on CD-ROM.
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION:
The first step to participate in the International Conference EVA2009 Moscow is the on-line registration at the conference web-site www.evarussia.ru. Registration deadline is October 15, 2009.
On the conference web-site you will find detailed information, registration rules, visa and hotel information, the lists of registered delegated and their institutions, the list of papers etc.
Please mind the visa information!
The Organisers will assist in hotel booking and invitations for the visas.
The working languages of the conference are Russian and English. Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of the key sessions will be provided.
No registration fee!
The delegates or their institutions cover all travel and accommodation expenses.
the EVA 2009 Moscow Organisation Commitee invites you to organise a workshop or other special event connected with the conference theme. The topics, terms and conditions should be discussed with the conference organisers.
PAPERS:
The Programme Committee seeks original research and application oriented papers, not previously presented elsewhere, which make new contributions to the Conference topics. You are invited to submit an abstract and/or a full text of your proposed paper for consideration by the Programme Committee in the electronic form (.doc or .rtf format) on-line. Deadlines: abstracts - October 1; full texts - November 1.
Abstracts and papers are submitted through the conference WEB-site www.evarussia.ru where the Paper submission guidelines could be found. Registered abstracts and papers are published on the conference WEB-site after the site manager approval.
The Programme Committee retains the right to accept/decline the application and to determine the status of the presentation (plenary session, thematic session, workshop presentation, on-line publication without presentation).
Presentation duration: plenary session and key papers - up to 20 minutes; papers to particular events - up to 15 minutes; contributions - up to 10 minutes.
The list of sections, round tables, workshops and additional events will be continuously updated and the Programme will be finalised in November 2009. Please, visit the conference WEB-site regularly.
Source - unistudy.org.ua
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