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It is a great pleasure to inform you that IEICE Europe Section is up on its feet. The mission of this section is to foster cross¬continental networking among the IEICE member in Europe with the other IEICE members, enable sharing of cutting¬edge technological knowledge through organization of dedicated events and facilitate collaboration among academia and industry. Started as an initiative of a few enthusiasts the section will enable the IEICE overseas members in Europe to have an easier way to get information and promote their initiatives to the main IEICE organization.
The chairman of the IEICE Europe section is Haris Gacanin, while the other members of the initial committee include Petar Popovski, Vice¬chair, and Dejan Vukobratovic, Secretary. At present the main goal of IEICE Europe Section is to develop a good organizational structure that will provide adequate services to its members. One of the first initiatives that is currently underway is to establish a yearly IEICE Europe event that would help further promotion of IEICE activities. The goal is to strengthen the networking among its members and with the rest of IEICE community and identify the dominant topics of interests the IEICE European Section members. With this in mind, the preparations have already started for the first meeting of IEICE Europe section in May 2012 during The 2012 Sarajevo Technology Forum (STF2012). The forum will serve as a convenient ‘research introduction’ of the Section towards the rest of the IEICE and will foster network and mutual collaboration among different sections of IEICE.
Some of our past activities are summarized next. The first meeting of initiating members of IEICE European Section took place in May 2011 during STF2011 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. IEICE European Section supported organization of the Forum, where the IEICE Director for International Coordination and Publicity Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi participated as invited speaker. Some topics discussed at the event are:
・Organizational structure of IEICE European Section;
・Efficient information distribution and exchange among IEICE European Section members (webpages,
mailing lists, social networks, etc.);
・Promotion of IEICE activities in Europe (IEICE conferences, IEICE transactions, etc.);
・Support and assistance mechanisms available to the IEICE Europe Section from the IEICE headquarters.
At the end to say that some of our future plans are to establish different committees that will address their corresponding issues. In such way, we are sure that IEICE will be able to easier expand its academic activities and services to its members in Europe. The strategic goal is to increase perspectives for collaboration and help joint initiatives between academia/industry in Europe and Japan.
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