The end of the Internet
Markus Lassnig, head of ANET-Salzburg, the etourism competence centre, pointed me to a nice application. See The End of the Internet (in German only).
Add comment December 22nd, 2006
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Christmas donation: researchers are supporting researchers
Salzburg Research has decided to donate money/savings from our yearly christmas promotion-do to the so called “butterfly children”: more specifically, the idea was that we (as researchers) should support (other) researcher. See www.schmetterlingskinder.at and fotos.salzburgresearch.at.
Add comment December 21st, 2006
Nice Idea: Scientific American, Top 50 in Research
Heard that on my morning podcast (I am just about a month late …): see www.sciam.com.
Add comment December 21st, 2006
1st Call COMET
December 1st was the first deadline for Austria’s new competence centre programme: COMET. Apparently, there is a high oversubscription, see http://www.ffg.at/content.php?cid=435&sid=58 (in German) for further details.
For instance, there were 7 applications for the highest category, K2, but only three are planned to be funded.
This is bad news for both, the applicants and the funding agency. It means that either an immense lobbying process will start and the decision will (mainly) be political; or, it means that 4 applicants have invested tremendous efforts in unsuccessful applications. They will tend to re-submit, perhaps they’ll be encouraged to try a “K1″ which is the next (lower) category, again with oversubscription. Finally, it may well be that via a political decision one puts in more money … (but then we need a government first to decide on that).
Add comment December 12th, 2006
GMES in Salzburg
These days, I organised and participated in a GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) event.
On Monday morning, we had a workshop with representative of BMVIT, FFG and GMES/GIS players in Salzburg: Z_GIS, GIS-Cluster and Salzburg Research.
The agenda was as follows:
- Welcome: Staatssekretär E. Mainoni, BMVIT
- GMES – Status and Opportunities for Austria: H. Posch, FFG
- GMES Expertise at Salzburg Research: S. Reich, Salzburg Research
- GMES: Activities and Initiatives at Z_GIS: J. Strobl, Z_GIS
- GMES competencues in the GIS-Cluster Salzburg: P. Schreilechner, GIS-Cluster
- GMES and education: L. Beckel, Geospace Salzburg
MR I. Schädler (BMVIT) lead through the event.
Quite interesting to see the different types of expertise in Salzburg! The presentations are available online (most of it in German).
Add comment December 4th, 2006
