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Have you ever dreamt to travel around the world in ONE day?! You don’t need to buy a ticket or book a flight, just attend the VU Multicultural event on the 6th of June organized by the Centre for International Cooperation VU and studentplatform dialoog@vu.nl in cooperation with the Network Institute and the Institute for Environmental Studies VU! This is your chance to get to meet people from different countries, taste their food, listen to their music and experience their culture!

The Network institute is involved in the organization of a Summer School on Web Science. The Summer School will take place from July 9 to July 13, 2012 and be held at the Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

The area of Web Science is an exciting new interdisciplinary research area that takes the Web as the scientific phenomenon of study. Working in Web Science requires a broad view of the scientific playing field, with a need to combine a range of scientific skills from different disciplines.

A joint initiative from the Web Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), the VU University Network Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Sahel Eco (Bamako, Mali), the Foroba Blon is based on new innovative voice technologies that enable people with the simplest of phones in developing countries to access Web-based information, independently of their reading skills, their language or their education level.

See: http://www.networkinstitute.nl/assistants/vacancies

Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16.00h @ Intertain Lab S111 W&N Building

The EDBA, the Economic Development Board Amsterdam in which
municipalities, industries and knowledge institutions cooperate, is
developing an ambitious Knowledge and Innovation Agenda for the
metropolitan region of Amsterdam.

Interactive Workshop “From Green Strategies to Green Actions: how, which and why?”

Monday, October 17 2011, 15:00 – 19:00

Program

Opening

14:45 – 15:00 Arrival & registration
15:00 – 15:05 Welcome
Jan Willem Tellegen, Consortium Green IT
15:05 – 15:15 Introduction on Knowledge Network
Joost Visser, head of research SIG and chairman of Knowledge Network Green Software

Workshop Selecting Green Strategies

De jonge Netwerk Instituut onderzoekers Wouter van Atteveldt (FSW, Communicatiewetenschappen) en Alexei Sharpanskykh (FEW, Informatica) hebben beiden een prestigieuse NWO VENI beurs weten binnen te slepen.

Beiden zijn gepromoveerd aan de VU bij leden van het Netwerk Instituut (van Atteveldt als gedeelde promotie tussen Sociale en Exacte Wetenschappen).

On Tuesday May 10, the Network Institute (the long-term collaboration between groups from the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Mathematics, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) organizes a one-day symposium to strengthen the ties between its members and to stimulate further collaboration. Read further for the program and registration. The symposium is held in the main building of the VU University, in the Auditorium and near the Aula.

Tuesday, 12 April, Green IT Amsterdam and the Software Improvement Group organize the workshop Green Software. The VU with the Network Institute is hosting it, starting at 15.30 and finishing with a network drink at 18.00. As there are a few seats left, it is still possible to register for this event, where SIG’s framework, its application by Centric and the impact of software on energy usage by Hyves will be discussed by representatives of these organizations.