Satellite Events

Diverse events will be organized within the framework of the Euroscience Open Forum 2008 (prior to and after ESOF2008).

The organizers of the Satellite Events are science-based companies, organisations and institutions wishing to take advantage of the opportunity provided by ESOF2008 as an excellent frame within which to host their meetings, congresses or conferences.

The organisers and participants in Satellite Events will receive discounts on the registration fees for ESOF2008.  

Three ESOF2008 Satellite Events will be organized:

Free Knowledge, Free Technology 2008
Barcelona, July 15th –17th, 2008

The Free Knowledge & Free Technology (FKFT) Conference, organised by the Open University of Catalonia and the SELF Consortium, is the first international event focused on the production and sharing of free educational and lifelong learning materials on Free Software and Open Standards.

The FKFT Conference will consist of keynotes, hands-on workshops and train-the-trainer sessions around five main tracks on: Open Standards, the legal framework of free knowledge, specific learning materials, technology development and quality assessment.

With these purposes, the SELF International Conference 2008 will bring together representatives of governments, schools, universities, training organisations, IT companies, publishers as well as non-profit and public sector organisations from many different countries. By gathering all these parties, FKFT expects to stimulate the present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines, sectors and countries around projects on Free Software.

The objective of the SELF Consortium is to promote the use of Free Software and Open Standards by producing high quality educational materials released under free licenses. The SELF Platform, a collaborative authoring tool inspired in the Wikipedia, will play an important role in achieving this goal.

Policy and Technology for E-Science
Barcelona, July 16th –17th, 2008

This workshop is sponsored by Science Commons - a project of Creative
Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

This event follows up on the Commons of Science Conference organized
by Science Commons in 2006. The first event was held in Washington DC,
at the National Academies of Science Keck Center, and focused largely
on US-based commons efforts in the sciences. This satellite event will
continue the conversation first started in 2006, looking at commons
efforts in Europe and the infrastructure needed to do meaningful
e-science.

These Conferences aim at bringing together a diverse audience of
scientists, policy makers, and commons advocates who are actively
interested in designing ways to make access to scientific knowledge
more widely available and more transparent across all scientific
disciplines.

For more information about Science Commons visit their Web site
http://sciencecommons.org/about/. More about SPARC can be found here
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ab

Marie Curie conference
Barcelona, July 17th –18th, 2008

Boost your career! Come to the Marie Curie Conference!

The Marie Curie Conference, lasting a day and a half prior to the main ESOF conference will offer fellows special opportunities to broaden their career perspectives and further exploit their potential as Marie Curie Fellows.

The conference will include a training session on how to access EC funding and how to write successful grant proposals. There will also be a series of workshops on how creative academics can exploit their research potential in the private sector. Opportunities in alternative careers will be discussed with specialists. Participants will also play an active role through poster sessions searching for future collaborators. Fellows will have the opportunity to share their success stories of dissemination and explore how to reach out and create synergies with other scientific fields. More experienced fellows will also give guidance on making a success of your career.

All participants in this satellite meeting will be automatically registered to the ESOF conference. The joint participation fee covering both the Marie Curie satellite and the main ESOF event can be charged to your Marie Curie contract.

PS2008: "The sense of touch: components and frontiers in sensorial experience"

The fourth edition of the International Percepnet Symposium (PS2008) will be held in Barcelona, organized by the Spanish Society of Sensory Sciences. The event has been consolidated as the prime reference on research in the field of sensory sciences in Southern Europe since its beginnings in 2002.
 
The PS2008, continuing with its usual structure, will put the main research lines in sensory sciences worldwide over the last two years up for debate. A simple yet powerful formula is the soul of the symposium: debates, followed by a reduced but select number of speakers. Moderated by the president of the table, speakers expose and interact extensively amongst themselves and the other participants, without any other limits than the theme and the duration. The debates, ordered around four main scientific scopes, explore science, engineering, anthropology and the marketing that moves throughout the sensorial universe.

The meeting will include several interesting sensory workshops –the second component of the symposium–, which will deeply analyze some of the most novel experiences produced in the surroundings of sensorial sciences and applied to the market, consumption and service issues. Finally, sensorial experiences will be the brand new opportunity to experience and to share stimuli, by means of extraordinary actions designed with the capacity to generate emotions through the senses, and to cause reflection upon that which has been perceived.

For more information and inscriptions visit the web:
www.percepnet.com/ps2008/index.htm