Call for Panels

The 4th Workshop on the LivingLabs in the Innovative Cross-border eRegionFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor

Kidričeva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to submit a combined business & government academic panel proposalto “The 4th Workshop on the LivingLabs in the Innovative Cross-border eRegion”.There will be two plenary sessions (opening 9:00 – 10:30 & closing 16:00 – 17:30), and two parallel panel sessions (11:00 – 12:30 & 14:00 – 15:30). Panel chairs will report on the panel’s conclusion in the closing plenary session.

A panel is expected to explore innovative ways of exploiting the latest Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and demonstrate innovative use of ICT in an experimental environment (via prototypes, LivingLabs, centers of excellence etc.). Recommended are short presentations of operational usage of ICT in areal-life setting in order to illustrate the results based on “proof of concept”. The panel may created expectations and encouragements by practicly applicable components of the “big picture eSolutions“ (seeing is believing). The panelists may suggest new research agendas and development methodologies,as well as joint project(s) and marketing.

A special goal of the panels’sessions is to highlight current issues and future impacts of ICT in cross-border eRegion development. At least two countries are expected to be represented in the panel. Sessions demonstrating successful innovative eCollaboration in developingICT-powered eSolutions in collaboration ofbusiness, government, and academia in cross-industry, and/or cross-disciplinary environments are particularly welcome.

Panelists and workshop participants are expected to register for the workshop. There are no costs involved; a participant covers her/his travel and accommodation costs.

The panel proposal (1 page) should indicate panel title, panel chair and the panelists (name, position, affiliation, country, e-mail address),the panel’s topic, issues to be discussed, and solution(s) to be presented.

Please e-mail your panel proposal as soon as possible and not later than Monday, September 17, 2007. Notification of acceptance isMonday, October 1, 2007. Panel outline (2 pages) will be published in the Workshop Proceedings.

You are welcome to consider attending also the following related events:

The 5th Workshop on eCollaboration in a Major Disaster Relief in the Innovative Cross-border eRegion on Wednesday, November 7,

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The Merkur Day 2007, 9th Undergraduate and Graduate Students eConference & the 14th Business & Government Executive Meeting on the Innovative Cross-border eRegionon Friday, November 9, (

We are looking forward to your response.

With best regards,

Jože Gričar, Professor & eCenter Director

Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Contact person of the eLivingLab, & Member, Portfolio Leadership Group, European Network of LivingLabs – ENoLL,