Startups, science and European technology come out of Brussels. For … – Observer

It’s a technological event that leaves the parent to land in Lisbon. After Web Summit, the ITC 2015. Between 20 and 22 October, the largest European event dedicated to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and organized by the European Commission will take place at the Congress Centre in Lisbon. The more than seven thousand people present will be able to know what the “best made in Europe in terms of digital technology.”

With an emphasis on innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, science and technology, ICT 2015 will have the presence of many relevant names for the sector in Europe, including the European Commissioner for the digital economy, Günther H. Oettinger, and the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos coins. The application to the event was in charge of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and Lisboa won the countries like Denmark and the Netherlands.

We need to accelerate the pace for the economy digital, “said Mario Campolargo, director of ICT at the European Commission, at a meeting with journalists on Thursday morning, adding that one of the aims of the ICT 2015 involves understanding the reasons why the digital single market is the key to leadership Europe’s industrial digital economy.

Among universities, researchers, investors and entrepreneurs, venture capital investors will be able to listen Konstantin Novoselov, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010, for example , and meet the Horizon 2020 plan of work for 2016 and 2017. In the next two years, for 12 billion euros dedicated to projects that deal with digital technology.

At the Congress Centre of Lisbon, will be held five plenary sessions, 15 parallel sessions and Startup Forum Europe. They will be exposed about 100 European projects, showing what “is best done in Europe in terms of research and innovation in ICT.” In this exhibition there are three spaces:. A reserved for the European Commission, one for Portuguese projects and another for international

We compete to this event because we have a city with conditions too attractive. Our scientific, competitive and advanced community, “said Pedro Carneiro, FCT.

In the Commerce Square, will run another initiative, an interactive exhibition which deals with the theme” The What does the European ICT is doing for you? “, you want to show projects that impact the day-to-day lives of citizens. Open from 17h, Sunday, has the doors open to anyone who wanted to visit the stands from 10h to 19h from Monday to Thursday.

Among the projects present in the Commerce Square, you can see close Emote, a team of Portuguese researchers who developed robotic tutors as facilitators of learning instruments.

According to what is advanced by the European Commission to eat internet related economy creates five new jobs for every two jobs which are lost in traditional sectors. The eurppeia digital economy is growing at about 12% per year when it was May of the Belgian economy, for example, and seven million jobs in the European ICT sector.

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