CENotes /
20090123
No CE biweekly meeting
Jan 23, 2009
No meeting today, but here are some notes from the ILG meeting
Education
- Increase in master programme applications, by about 75% for priority 1! Yay!
- Erasmus Mundus has been launched: http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm
- EDITZ: much discussion. Some points:
- The economy might shore up the applications until 2011, but by then we better have any programme/actions/etc in place
- Positive feelings towards a unified programme for the first 3 years
- Positive feelings towards an IT style programme for social-science students
- The entire masters level offering must be reviewed
- Catarina to formulate dept's answer
- Work ongoing to elucidate effects of tuition fees
Research
- Applications for strategic plan are being worked on:
- ICT with S2 and MC2 (the big one)
- Language technology with GU
- Contributions to Electric Power Engineering?
- Contributions to Production Technology?
- ICT application will have a communication mass center
- Companies to enlist?
-- Ericsson
-- Nema Labs, other startups
-- Sun, Intel
-- Volvo Technology
-- More? Email Catarina.
- Nobody seems to be going for the E-science pot!
Department issues
- Dept. economical result is very good this year
- It should be possible to offload seniors
- YFos to work on this or other plan
Personnel
- 16 applications for the two positions in Software Engineering
- Ana Bove has given her docent lecture and is now officially an "oavlönad docent"