Paris, 12 April 2004


EFITA newsletter / 154 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


Workshop on European Funds for Rural Development in the Knowledge Based Society
19. 4. 2004 - Seč u Chrudimi (Czech Republic)
Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Science - Czech National Contact Point Organisation for 6 Framework Program together with the Czech Centre for Strategic Studies and association EDUCEU will organise on 19th April 2004 in Sec u Chrudimi workshop European Funds for Rural Development in the Knowledge Based Society.
This workshop will be a part of an annual international conference Sec2004 - Information System for Agriculture, Forestry and Rural development (20th and 21st April 2004). This event is organized shortly before accessing new countries to EU and there are two main goals:
- To present new instruments of EU as a tool supporting building rural knowledge based society and also introduce this new instruments for accessing countries
- To support creating new international teams for European projects focused on rural knowledge society.
The program of the workshop will be divided into two parts:
The first part will present Czech experts and also Commission staff new possibilities of financing building and development of knowledge rural society using European instrument:
- FP6 as the possibility for rural area development
- Recap of EU and Czech funds convenient for rural area development and accessible to new EU countries
The second part will be an international brokerage for a preparation future FP6 projects.

There were recognized three basic themes, which have a high priority for the Czech Republic

>>> 3MFOR
Brokerage meeting for preparation of IP for the project in the line Development and application of integrated approach and tools for sustainability of forest status, management and production.
See: http://www.ccss.cz/sec/sec2004en/3mfor.htm

>>> @rural IP
The @ruralIP vision discussed is supported in "eEurope 2005: An information society for all" Action Plan. The eEurope prioritises the stimulation of services, applications and content, such as modern online public services, e-government, e-learning, e-heath services and a dynamic business environment.
See: http://www.ccss.cz/sec/sec2004en/ruralip.htm

>>> Open Agriculture Platform
The Open Agriculture Platform system will introduce new and effective agricultural knowledge management based on standardised Interoperable Services and Mobile technologies. The goal of such a system will be the knowledge support, and support for food quality and safety in crop and food production. The system will have to take into account the speciality of agricultural production and could support a great number of very small farmers without necessary higher investment from their side.
See: http://www.ccss.cz/sec/sec2004en/oap.htm
The workshop is free of charge; the participants will cover their own expenses related to the workshop (accommodation, travel costs). Organizer will organize shuttle transport from Prague to Sec.
Contact: Karel CHARVAT
mailto:kch@volny.cz


Information Systems for Agriculture, Forestry, and Rural Areas - Enlargement of EU
10th International Conference
20. - 21. 4. 2004 - Seč u Chrudimi - Czech Republic
Have already confirmed his participation at the conference; Bror Salmelin, DG-IST and Per Backe-Hansen, DG RTD
Representatives from Czech ministry of Informatics and Agricultural will participate too.
The goal of 10th International Conference SEC Information Systems in Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Areas - New Large Europe will be organized shortly before access of new countries to EU and it will be focused on new e rural Europe as a part of European Research Area. 
Sec conference will support raising publishing awareness and utilization of the newest results on the field of IST in the field of agriculture, forestry and rural development. The conference will offer traditional oral and poster presentations in combination with moderns Internet interactive presentation. The newest results in the fields of:
- Ambient Mobile Intelligence (AMI)
- Knowledge management
- Mobile technologies
- Utilization of Open source solutions for building of applications
- Modern Open GIS and Remote Sensing applications architecture
- E(m)-commerce applications and e-learning
will be discussed during conference. 
The implementation of these technologies will support e-Europe initiative in relation to rural area and also in relation to new accessing countries.
The conference will be base for clustering of European research activities in the fields of e Sustainable Rural development, food safety, new economical activities in rural regions, new knowledge management, new educational strategy, socio economical aspect of utilization of new technologies, precision farming.
See: http://www.ccss.cz/sec


Broadband via Satellite - Bridging the digital divide: A regional perspective
26 April, 2004 - Paris (France)
eris@ in the frame of IANIS (the Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society) in collaboration with EUTELSAT, is organizing a workshop on "Broadband via Satellite - Bridging the digital divide: A regional perspective" in Paris (France) on the 26th of April.
The European Commission and the Member States have reaffirmed their commitment to providing all EU citizens with access to the Information Society. However, the risk facing us today is that those deprived of access to the Internet at broadband speed will be excluded from the Information Society and therefore considerably disadvantaged at all levels. A significant part of the population in Europe today lacks the physical possibility of accessing broadband networks and services.
It is for this reason that Eutelsat, Europe's leading satellite operator, and eris@ would like to bring together representatives from different European regions to address this issue. Satellites are in a unique position to provide ubiquitous coverage and hence equitable access to broadband services for e-applications for SMEs, administrations, schools, universities, hospitals, and research institutes in the enlarged Europe.
See: http://www.ianis.net/default.php?page=detail_events&idevent=404
We are looking forward to seeing you in Paris.
See: http://www.eutelsat.com
Contact: Emma BLANCO
mailto:emma.blanco@erisa.be


56th International Symposium on Crop Protection
May 4, 2004 - Gent (BE)
See: http://www.iscp.ugent.be


International Rural Tourism Workshop (Quality, IT, Environment and Training)
June 2-3, 2004 - Riga, Latvia
See: http://www.traveller.lv/
See: http://eco.traveller.lv
Contact: Agnese Jakovica
mailto:agnese@celotajs.lv


5^th European Conferences on Precision Agriculture and Precision Livestock Farming (Call for Papers)
June 9-12, 2005 - Uppsala
> Submission of abstracts: 20th September 2004
> Themes:
- Feed quality management
- On farm analysis technology
- Robotics, autonomous vehicles and controlled traffic
- Environmental effects of precision agriculture and precision livestock farming
- Precision horticulture and viticulture
- Automation in livestock farming
- Implementation, education and training
See: http://www-conference.slu.se/ecpa/index.htm
See: http://www-conference.slu.se/ecplf/index.htm
Contact: Lars Thylén
mailto:lars.thylen@jti.slu.se


This is a compilation of "actual" student GCSE answers (Third part)

28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.

29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.

32. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

33. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anarchist, ushered in a new error in the anus of human history.

Contact: Mick HARKIN
mailto:harkin@iol.ies


No way!
No way actual GCSE answers, these are rather obviously American students responses, I reject this foul slur on the British education system: NO WAY does a British 16 year old know who Thomas Jefferson is (or was), and they would have a completely different version of Franklyn's pussy-stroking...
Contact : Wilson BOARDMAN
mailto:wilboardman@micromixsolutions.com


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