The argentine Ernesto Chinkes is one of the most important actors in the development of TICAL in recent years and knows the Conference as few figures. He has been the chairman of its Program Committee in three consecutive years, and this year was named Honorary President. In 2016, however, the meeting will have a special taste for him. It is the first time that TICAL is carried out in Argentina. In this interview, Chinkes tells us a little about his expectations, on how institutions are preparing for the event and leave a message to encourage the participation of latin americans.
Are you interested in knowing about funding opportunities under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme? The MAGIC Project invites you to participate in an Info Day on Horizon 2020 – Health, demographic change and wellbeing, which will be held on 8th July 2016 starting from 07:00H GMT.
The proposals will now be evaluated by the Program Committee and on July 29 TICAL will notify and publish the authors, young entrepreneurs and interinstitutional projects that will receive the organization's support to attend the Conference.
During the last 20th of June, in Asunción, and counting on the presence of the national President, Horacio Cartes, the Minister of the National Secretariat of Information and Communication Technologies (Senatics), David Ocampos, of executive authorities and researchers, and of Eduardo Grizendi, member of RedCLARA’s directive council and Director of Engineering and operations of RNP, the Paraguayan academic network ARANDU was reopened and celebrated its connection to RedCLARA.
This 2-hour webinar will present a five-step model that can be applied by individual researchers or projects who wish to improve their international footprint and make the outputs of their work more visibile and available for use. MAGIC Project invites all the interested to join a webinar on Science Communication, to be held next June 30, between 13h and 15h GMT. The event will count on the participation of Michelle Wilmers, the Curation and Dissemination Manager of the Global South Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project.