The Austrian Research Funding Agency, FFG, has just announced that our proposal “e-motion – research in ICT in the tourism and leisure industry” was selected for funding (as one 6 funded so-called K-projects (with 15 applications)).
Great news and a real perspective for ICT research in the application area of tourism in Salzburg.
Add comment September 28th, 2007
Federal Minister for science and research, Dr. Johannes Hahn, starts an exchange dialog between science and politics called “Forschungsdialog“. The kick-off event will take place Oct. 16th, 2007, in Vienna.
Add comment September 25th, 2007
… a WIKI with experts and real names. Thomas Gruber from Salzburg Research pointed me to that new development of a wiki. In his diploma thesis he is concerned with aspects of content quality in systems with high “rates” of user generated contents.
English version at citizendium.org.
Also, I would like to point to a regional effort, hosted by “Salzburger Nachrichten“: the Salzburg-Wiki.
Add comment September 19th, 2007
… are an “evergreen” type of discussion. Universities do not want to give away the right of awarding PhDs. On the other hand, there is a significant number of excellent master students at the level of the “polytechnic universities” (Fachhochschulen) that would well qualify for a PhD programme.
In Sweden, they created a work around with the so-called “Licenciate” (according to wikipedia, there are several other countries with such a mechanism). The licentiate is somewhat between master and PhD, so to say on the way towards the PhD.
In a XING user-group I came across a group that provides links to related sites, e.g. promotion-fh.de or thesis.de.
Add comment September 18th, 2007
To appear in December 2007: a special issue of the renowned magazine “HMD – Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik”, published by dpunkt on Enterprise content management (ECM).
Add comment September 13th, 2007
… the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development has recently published its strategy towards excellence. To be downloaded at www.rat-fte.at.
Amongst others, the study argues for more excellence on the “top” and more quality with respect to the “breadth”. I.e., additional support for the best (institutes) and more average quality mostly through improvements in methods and processes for the average research institute.
This is somehow natural, as the strive towards the “3.0% target” requires more research and the same time this implies that some researchers need to be “extra-excellent” as otherwise the average would decrease (too much – avoiding a decrease in average will IMHO be hard to achieve).
Add comment September 13th, 2007
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