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BENEFIT Day
on Pan-European Co-operation and Technology Transfer

in the Field of Information Technologies

Experiences and Perspectives in Science and Industry

Budapest, 29 October 1997

Joint Workshop DMMS and ICOMT 1997:

Workshop on
Digital Methodologies, Technologies and Applications for Multimedia and Signal Processing

2nd International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Digital Telecommunication Services

Budapest, 27-28 October 1997

BENEFIT project and KFKI-MSzKI, Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques, Budapest

sponsored by EU

This BENEFIT Day continues the tradition of Special Days, which have established themselves in BENEFIT, as indispensable forums, where all those challenging problems related to building pan-European projects can be presented and discussed. The aim of the Special Days was to highlight the importance and benefits of the joint European research and development projects from the point of view of the participating countries and of the European Community. How do these joint programs fit the research and development policy of these countries ? What were the main advantages of the joint projects such as Copernicus, Phare and other joint programs for the Central and Eastern European Countries, and what are the experiences of the European Community?

The Day continues this tradition by giving a survey of these projects seen from the top, from the side of the general science and development policy of the countries and from the European Community. Speakers give a survey and evaluation of the general science and development policies of participating countries and of the European Union.

The BENEFIT Day is concerned also with technology transfer in pan-European scene, and with new information technologies based on Internet which support collaboration over wide distances. BENEFIT believes that these new technologies will in essence enable transformation of the envisioned information society into the collaborative one.

In respond to this CALL for contributions the following Programme has been built.

Morning (8:30 - 12:30):

• (8:30 - 08:45)
  Welcome, Programme Overview
  (local authority, chairs)
  
• (8:45 - 10:15)
  Towards a Collaborative Society
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Adam Pawlak, BENEFIT project)
  • A few thoughts on BENEFIT and collaborative engineering
    Adam Pawlak (BENEFIT project)
  • Strengthening cooperation,
    Marc Goffart (DGIII/F2-INCO, European Commission)
  • Integration through collaborative research and development
    Manfred Horvat (BIT - Bureau for International Research and Technology Co-operation, Vienna, Austria)
  • Multi-agent WWW-based environment for distributed team decision making support
    Alexander V. Smirnov (Institute for Informatics and Automation, St. Petersburg, Russia)
    
    
• *** *** *** Coffee Break (10:15 - 10:45) *** *** ***
  
  
• (10:45 - 12:00)
  EU Programmes in Hungary
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Jozsef Lukacs, Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Hungarian participation in the EU RTD Framework Programme
    Sandor Bottka (Vice President of the Hungarian National Committee for Technological Development)
  • The role of EU programmes in Hungarian R&D
    Laszlo Keviczky (General Secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • New possibilities for the Hungarian academic and research community to access international networks
    Lajos Balint (Head, Governmental Department for Informatics and Telecommunication, Hungary)
  • European projects with the involvement of the John von Neumann Computer Society
    Miklos Biro (John von Neumann Computer Society)
    
    
• (12:00 - 12:30)
  BENEFIT Contact Points
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Erich Rathske, DLR e. V., Köln-Porz, Germany)
  • The BENEFIT contact point in Slovakia- Goals, results and experience
    Bedrich Weber (Department of Microelectronics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia)
    
  • BENFIT contact point: experience and result
    Elena Vershinina (European Cooperation Manager, Institute of Operating Systems, Moscow State Institute of Electronic Engineering, Russia)
  • Formation of the Polish BENEFIT Contact Point,
    Tadeusz Grabowiecki, Maria Szyrajew (Institute of Electronics, Silesian Technical University in Gliwice, Poland)
    
    
    
    

Afternoon (14:00-18:00):

• (14:00 - 15:15)
  Co-operation in Practice
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Tadeusz Grabowiecki, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland)
  • Dynamic control and management systems in manufacturing processes (DYCOMANS)
    Andrzej W. Ordys (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom) (to be confirmed)
  • TEMPUS programme outputs as part of the development of the Silesian Technical University
    Jerzy Moscinsky (Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland)
  • Contribution and impact of the EU programmes on development of the VLSI design activities at STU FEI Bratislava
    Bedrich Weber (Department of Microelectronics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia)
    
  • Role of Nexus within the European MST community
    A. Jelenski (Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Warszawa, Poland)
    
    
• (15:15 - 16:00)
  Technology Transfer
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Manfred Horvat, BIT - Bureau for International Research and Technology Co-operation, Vienna, Austria)
  
  • University- industry technology transfer - Some problems and solutions
    Manfred Horvat (BIT - Bureau for International Research and Technology Co-operation, Vienna, Austria)
  • Supporting technology transfer with internet (title to be confirmed)
    Hannu Jaervinen (TEKES, Finland)
    
    

• *** *** *** Coffee Break (16:00 - 16:30) *** *** ***
  
  
• (16:30 - 17:15)
  Industrial Strategies and Co-operations
  (Topic Co-ordinator: Anno Jordan, Parsytec Computer GmbH, Aachen, Germany)
  • Telecommunications: technology transfer and R&D, the strategy for Eastern Europe (preliminary title)
    Rigobert Foka (Thomson-CSF, Paris, France)
  • Using the internet for remote monitoring of ATM network platforms and research trials from Western and Eastern Europe
    Gyoergy Dallos (Business Communications Networks LTD, Budapest, Hungary)

• (17:15 - 18:00)
  Summary/Review of the Day/Discussion
  (chairs)

BENEFIT Day Chairs

General chair:

Jozsef Lukacs
Department of Information Technology
KFKI-MSzKI (Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques)
Budapest, P.O.Box.: 49 H-1525, Hungary
Phone and fax: +36 1 395 9281

Co-chair:

Adam Pawlak
BENEFIT Project

Programme Chair:

Tadeusz Grabowiecki
Institute of Electronics
Silesian Technical University
44-100 Gliwice, ul. Akademicka 16, Poland
Phone: +48 32 371665
Fax: +48 32 372225

Deputy Programme Chair:

Erich Rathske
DLR e. V.
(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt / German Aerospace Research Establishment)
Hauptabteilung Informationstechnik
Abteilung EG-Förderprogramme
D-51170 Köln, Germany
tel: +49-2203-601-3274
fax: +49-2203-601-3017

BENEFIT Day secretariat

Ms. Katalin MITOK
Scientific Society for Telecommunications
Budapest, Kossuth L. ter 6-8, Hungary, H-1O55
Phone: +36 1 153 1O27
Fax: +36 1 153 O451
E-mail: hiradastechnika@mtesz.hu
Internet: http://www.mtesz.hu/hiradastechnika

In the case of any technical problems, please contact
Istvan Erenyi: erenyi@sunserv.kfki.hu

More information on BENEFIT is available from:
BENEFIT Home, Roland Pleger Erich Rathske and Tadeusz Grabowiecki .

AP, TG, ER
October 1997