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This section provides detailed information on the activities developed in the framework of the ASIACOOP initiative (particularly the organisation of the "Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT" on June 16-17, 2008 in Seoul), but also on any relevant activities addressing S&T cooperation between the EU and Korea in the ICT area.

The news section is namely open to projects funded under the FP6 and FP7 research programmes of the European Union in which Korean organisations are participating.

Should you be involved in such a project and like to publish a news article below, please send a short text (explicitly referring to your project) to info@eurosouthkorea-ict.org, if possible with an illustration (as a jpg file) and any attachments (as pdf files) to which the text would refer.

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June 19, 2008
A Korea-EU Cooperation ICT Seminar held today in Daejeon

The 1st Korea-EU Cooperation ICT workshop organised in the framework of the COJAK project has been kindly hosted today, under the form of a working lunch, by the Institute for Information Technology Advancement (IITA) in Daejeon. ..

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June 17, 2008
A Forum opening a new EU-Korea cooperation phase

The Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT was successfully held yesterday and today at the COEX (Convention and Exhibition Center) in Seoul. It was co-organised by the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media), and of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), as well as of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE), Korea...

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April 29, 2008
ASIACOOP and COJAK projects online under the c
ollaborative
free encyclopedia
Wikipedia

Two articles, one about the ASIACOOP project (IST-3-15695-SSA), the other one about its follow-up project called COJAK (ICT-216949), have been put on the English version of the collaborative free encyclopedia Wikipedia...

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April 4, 2008
Various organisational aspects of the "Korea-EU Cooperation
Forum on ICT" settled

A group of representatives of the Institute for Information Technology Advancement (IITA) has been welcomed last week in the Orionis premises in Sophia Antipolis, France for a working meeting on the organisation of the "Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT". IITA has been nominated by the former Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to be in charge of the event organisation on the Korean side...

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April 1, 2008
A first step towards a "Korea-EU ICT Cooperation Center" has
been undertaken

Yesterday, the President of the Institute for Information Technology Advancement (IITA), Mr. Sung-Ok Lee and Mr. Roger Torrenti, CEO of Orionis, jointly signed a Letter of Intent representing a first step towards a dynamic joint Korea-EU Cooperation Center in the ICT field...

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March 20, 2008
Three projects with Korean participation selected at FP7 ICT
Call 1 and 2

The final statistics of the two first FP7 Calls related to the ICT theme (Call 1 deadline: May 8, 2007; Call 2 deadline: Oct. 9, 2007) are now available. A total of 13 participations of Korean organisations in proposals submitted in response to these Calls have been recorded (11 for Call1, 2 for Call2), which, after the proposal evaluation process, became 3 projects (all retained proposals in Call 1)...

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February 13, 2008
The next ICT event to take place in Lyon from
Nov. 25 to 27, 2008

The ICT event 2008 will take place in Lyon, France from Nov. 25 to 27. This conference-exhibition, organised by the European Commission's DG Information Society and Media , is the Europe's biggest research event devoted to Information and Communication Technologies. The previous one was held in November 2006 in Helsinki...

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December 21, 2007
COJAK - a project focusing on further developing strategic
cooperation between the EU and South Korea on ICT -
has been selected at Call1 under FP7

We are very pleased to announce the successful selection of the specific support action entitled COJAK, a proposal submitted at Call1 under the European Union's 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The COJAK project which will be a follow-up of, and organised in full continuity with the ASIACOOP initiative, aims at...

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December 3, 2007
The Terms of Reference of the "Korea-EU Cooperation Forum
on ICT" have been agreed on

The Terms of Reference of the "Korea-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT" have been agreed on the occasion of meetings held last week in Seoul between the European Commission and the Ministry of Information and Communication Republic of Korea (MIC)...

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July 6, 2007
EU-Korea Science & Technology Forum 2007 - Seoul

A delegation of the European Commission is visiting Seoul to participate in the 1st EU-Korea Joint Committee Meeting on Science and Technology hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology on 9 July 2007. The European delegation is headed by Mr. Jose Manuel Silva-Rodriguez, Director General for Research. During their visit to Korea, they will also speak at the "EU-Korea Science & Technology Forum 2007" and...

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July 5, 2007
The EuroSouthKorea-ICT.org website opens today!

The www.EuroSouthKorea-ICT.org web portal, devoted to S&T cooperation between the European Union and South Korea in the ICT area, has been officially put online today. Developed in the framework of the ASIACOOP initiative...

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July 2, 2007
EU strategy for international cooperation on ICT:
Commission launches public consultation

The Commission launches today a public consultation to help strengthen the global position of Europe's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries by ensuring access to global markets. The consultation will run until 17 September 2007 and is open to...

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June 13, 2007
IITA International Symposium on IT R&D in October 2007
in Seoul

The Institute for Information Technology Advancement (IITA) pre-announced an event entitled the "International Symposium on IT R&D", which will take place in Seoul most probably on October 29 or 30, 2007. It will be hosted by MIC and provides the opportunity to establish a Global Research Cooperation Network, to introduce your organization to Korean and international participants and to learn about advanced IT R&D policy and direction.

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June 1, 2007
Fruitful bilateral meetings to discuss the "Euro-SouthKorea
Cooperation Forum on ICT Research" of March 2008

Yesterday and today, several bilateral meetings have taken place in Seoul in order to discuss the various aspects of the preparation of the "Euro-SouthKorea cooperation Forum on ICT Research" to be organised in Seoul in March 2008. The meetings involved, on the European side, representatives of...

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