Category archive for ‘Newsroom’

• Mar

  2013

  7

  Job announcement for two project assistants (0)

  

  Sigma Orionis has launched a recruitment process of two project assistants in order to strengthen its team in the current development phase the company has been experiencing.
  Expected profiles are identical: excellent writing and communication skills, open-minded and creative, enthusiast and hard-worker, autonomous but with a team spirit, can-do attitude, sense of quality and service, high ethical [...]

   
• Dec

  2012

  14

  1st International conference on Internet Science – Brussels, April 10-11, 2013 (0)

  

  [ April 10, 2012 to April 11, 2012] The 1st international conference on Internet Science, will be organized from April 10 to 11, 2013 in Brussels, under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science launched in the continuity of PARADISO and which Sigma Orionis is proud to be part of. Hosted by the [...]

   
• Dec

  2012

  3

  An outstanding multi-stakeholder gathering at the ‘2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Week on ICT’ (Nov. 2012 – Lisbon, Portugal) (0)

  

  [ November 26, 2012 to November 30, 2012] The EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 FP7 project (coordinated by Sigma Orionis), the European Commission (EC) and the African Union Commission (AUC) organised a series of events in Lisbon this week: 8 main meetings took place between Monday 26 and Friday 30 November, among them:

  The REC (Regional Economic Communities) Steering Committee Meeting (Nov. 26, 2012)
  The EEG8 JAES P8 (European Expert Group meeting [...]

   
• Nov

  2012

  19

  Sigma Orionis organised, on behalf of the ACCESS4EU:NZ project, an ICT tour in Europe on Smart, sustainable cities (0)

  

  [ November 12, 2012 to November 16, 2012] In order to build EU-NZ researcher connections, and to highlight the opportunities for EU/NZ research collaboration in the field of Smart and sustainable cities, an European ICT tour has been organized by Sigma Orionis last week as a part of the ACCESS4EU:NZ project.
  Representatives of the Universities of Auckland, Otago, Waikato, Canterbury and SCION Crown Research [...]

   
• Nov

  2012

  16

  A EU-China Conference organized with Sigma’s support in Beijing (0)

  

  [ November 15, 2012 to November 16, 2012] The OpenChina-ICT Dialogue Conference, organised by Sigma Orionis in cooperation with BSEAC (Beijing Software Enterprise Advisory Center) welcomed over 240 delegates from Europe and China at Wenjin hotel in Beijing last November 15-16, 2012.
  Were present, in particular, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Ministry for Industry and Information and Technology (MIIT), the National [...]

   
• Oct

  2012

  19

  Sigma Orionis organized the 2012 NEM Summit in Istanbul on Oct. 16-18 (0)

  

  [ October 16, 2012 to October 18, 2012] Sigma Orionis, a member of the NEM Steering Board and of the NEM Executive Group, also chairs the NEM Summit Organising Committee, organized the fifth edition of the NEM Summit, which was successfully held from October 16 to 18 in Istanbul, Turkey on the theme “Implementing Future Internet towards new horizons”
  It has attracted over 320 delegates [...]

   
• Sep

  2012

  13

  Successful outputs of the TEIN3 workshops organised by Sigma Orionis in 2012 (0)

  

  [ May 26, 2012 to May 28, 2012September 12, 2012 ] Sigma Orionis has been selected by DANTE following a RFP aimed to support the efforts of DANTE’s TEIN3 initiative in Southeast Asia, promoting the development of RENs (Research & Education Networks) in the region, and their connection to GEANT2.
  Building upon its longstanding experience of cooperation with Southeast Asia (gained in particular through SEACOOP), Sigma Orionis organized a series [...]

   
• Sep

  2012

  5

  Sigma Orionis will be involved in a new FET project on social collective intelligence (0)

  

  Sigma Orionis is very pleased to announce its participation in the Social-IST project: ‘Multidisciplinary initiative on the theme social collective intelligence’ coordinated by the Center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Networked Communities (CREATE-NET), Italy.
  This project, a “Support Action” funded by the European Commission under FP7 (FET programme) will officially start on October 1st, 2012 [...]

   
• Aug

  2012

  28

  Launch of 2 new Integrated Projects (IPs) involving Sigma Orionis (0)

  

  Sigma Orionis is very pleased to announce its involvement in 2 new Integrated Projects by the European Commission and to be officially launched in the last quarter of 2012.
  These projects are:
  RESILIENT (09/2012 to 08/2016): ‘Coupling renewable, storage and ICTs for low carbon intelligent energy management at district level’, coordinated by D’Appolonia SPA, Italy and including [...]

   
• Aug

  2012

  20

  Launch of 3 new e-Infrastructure projects involving Sigma Orionis (0)

  

  Sigma Orionis is very pleased to announce its participation in 3 new e-Infrastructure projects supported by the European Commission and to be officially launched in the last quarter of 2012.
  These 3 projects are:

  pro-iBiosphere (09/2012 to 08/2014): ‘Coordination and policy development in preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management’, coordinated by Naturalis, Netherlands and involving [...]