by Dimitrios Serpanos

The Industrial Systems Institute (ISI) of Research Centre ATHENA (RC ‘Athena’) is delighted to join ERCIM. ISI, a public research institute, was founded in Patras, Western Greece in 1998. Since 2003, ISI has been part of the ’Athena‘ Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication, and Knowledge Technologies, operating under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs.

by Emanuele Salerno

The National Research Council of Italy in Pisa hosted the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, organized by the ERCIM Working Group on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning (Muscle), 11-13 December 2011. The workshop was co-sponsored by CNR and Inria. Proceedings to come in LNCS 7252

by Keith Jeffery

Since 2006 there has been discussion about creating a platform for cooperation among the European societies in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (ICST). The objective is to have a stronger, unified voice for ICST professionals in Europe. The forum will help to develop common viewpoints and strategies for ICST in Europe and, whenever appropriate or needed, a common representation of these viewpoints and strategies at the international level.

by Peter Kunz and Emma Lière

Since September 2010, the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme has been supported by the ‘FP7 Marie Curie Actions - People, Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes’ (COFUND) of the European Commission. Many ERCIM member institutes have taken advantage of this opportunity and 80 fellowships have already been granted.