Ultimas noticias

The SEGEFA of the University of Liege participated to the project of the euregional information service (SIE-EIS), by gathering and processing the stastistics about the Liege province, at the districts and communes scale. The first phase of the EIS project (2005-2006) led to the execution of a statistical publication [PDF] in February of 2007.

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On February 23 in Ljubljana the agreement to establish the first Franco Slovenian European Associated Laboratory LEA ModeLTER (European Laboratory for Modelling of Landscapes and Territories over the Long Term) has been signed.
> http://modelter.zrc-sazu.si

Next April, the Integra Plus staff (Durbuy, Belgium) will make an analysis of the data that were gathered from 700 users of the partners organizations. The results will be published on the Integra Plus portal [http://www.integraplus.be/]. At this occasion, the data processing protocol that was established in the WP6C in 2006 will be experimented.

Organized by the univerity of Salerno, the International Conference "Territorial intelligences, regional identities and sustainable development" will take place in Fisciano-Vietri, in the province of Salerno. A coordination meeting of the Work Package 4 “Fundamental Methods" of the CAENTI, and a coordination meeting of the coordination group WP6e “European Observatory of Primary school”, will take place during this period.

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On Friday, February 9th 2007 at 16.30, in the Cultural Center of Seraing (44 rue Strivay), Optim@ Absl organizes a conference about territorial development and citizens participation. Three speakers will present their project, the starting idea and the central place of participation, with its virtues and difficulties.

The next coordination meeting of the will take place in Madrid on March, 22nd and 23rd 2007 in the ACCEM buildings.WP6 “Tools for actors”

> Provisional program

ENTI is a project of network of excellence in territorial intelligence at the horizon 2009 in the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union for the Research and Development. This project, that will be submitted in the framework of the second invitation to tender that is planned for 2009, at the end of the CAENTI , should be as of now prepared as it implies the extension and the reinforcement of the research excellence, the definition of an integrated research project and the development of complementary training, edition and transfer activities.

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Available on its website, the 2007 leading article of the I3M laboratory "Information, Milieux, Médias, Médiations", which is a CAENTI partner, is devoted to territorial intelligence.

> Read the leading article on http://i3m.univ-tln.fr/

Philippe HERBAUX thesis was publicly presented in the University of Toulon-Var on May, the 31st 2006. It is entitled “Territorial intelligence, from a general representation to the “finality” concept” and it was received with a very honourable mention. With a very strong epistemological contribution, this thesis that was made in a research-action way helps finding a reading direction of the information mutualisation processes within the firms and organizations. All these elements are presented in an integrated approach of territorial intelligence.

> Thesis sum-up

Dr. Krištof Oštir has co-organized a special section on LIDAR (Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging) remote sensing in the frame of GIS in Slovenia conference, held on 26th September 2006. His presentation described the potential of laser imaging for the detection of past cultural landscapes in the forested areas. The conference has been organized by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and gathered more than hundred people from academia, education, business and government. A conference proceeding was published as well and dr. Tomaž Podobnikar was a member of the editorial board.

> More information on Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies (IIAS), that participates to the CAENTI

Mihai PASCARU-PAG, Lecturer in sociology in the University of Alba Iulia (Romania) will present a conference about " the Catalyse methodology in the rural communities study. Experiments in the Albac-Scarisoara-Horea micro-region (Departmentof Alba, Romania)", on Friday, October, the 20th octobre 2006, from 10h30 to 12h, in ThéMA meeting room (3rd floor above Donzelot room, UFR SLHS, 32 rue Mégevand à Besançon).

> Laboratory ThéMa website (Theorising and Modelling to Plan)

The European commission confirmed, on Tuesday, Septembre 26th, the EU widening to Romania and Bulgaria. The CAENTI, that includes a Romanian partner and which first annual conference took place in Alba Iulia in Romania from Septembre, the 20th to Septembre, the 22nd is pleased of this decision.

> More information on the University of Alba Iulia (Romania), that participates to the CAENTI
> More information on the international conference of the CAENTI in Alba Iulia

Le Centre de ressources, né de la réflexion du partenariat d’Optim@ sur la précarité de certains quartiers de Seraing, tente depuis 2003 de revaloriser les compétences des habitants pour contribuer au développement de leur quartier. Après trois ans d'existence, les habitants-animateurs et les partenaires du Centre de Ressources ont organisé son inauguration officielle le 24 juin 2006.

The first International Conference of Territorial Intelligence, in Alba Iulia has started today, September, the 20th. The theme is: AREA, IDENTITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Communications are broadcasted in real time on the website.

> See the conference in real time according to the program

Implemented through the States that are members of the EU and funded by the European social fund, the EQUAL initiative is a ideas laboratory which is at the service of the European strategy for Employment and of the social inclusion process. Invaluable advice to integrate the EQUAL experience in the governance field are available on the Internet website.

> Integrating the EQUAL experience into the new ESF Programmes: Guidance notes

The proposal deadline to submit the communications proposals is postponed until July, the 31st 2006. Nevertheless, the proposals that were already submitted will be valuated soon. This CAENTI first international conference will take place in Alba Iulia (Romania) from September, the 20th to September, the 22nd 2006.

> More information about Alba Iulia 2006

A first seminar about the coordination group WP4T (Territory) will take place on the Tuesday, the 4th and Wednesday, the 5th of July to define the group working programme. At the same time, the coordination group WP6E (European Elementary School Observatory) will meet to plan the feability study of this observatory from the French experiments of the Rural School Observatory.

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