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Conference4me supports another large conference – GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016. Conference will take place in Barcelona 22-25 February 2016. This is the biggest and most important annual gathering for the world mobile industry.

On 26-30 October SONY delivered to PSNC 8K live cameras and IP Live transmission system, which was bought as a part of the New UHD Media Services in Optical Networks Laboratory of the Future ICT project.

Sony has today announced it is outfitting the PSNC UHD research laboratory with 8K 3D Live over IP technology. The 8K 3D solutions will increase the competitive leadership of The Polish research center and scientific research by delivering detailed, high-quality video transmission over high-speed networks with low-latency, facilitating improved remote production and collaboration among researchers and artists across the country and in Europe.

At the beginning of August 2015 Digital National Museum in Warsaw has been upgraded to the newest version of dMuseion – version 1.1.0.

dArceo is a long term preservation system for source data (e.g. master files), initially developed by PSNC as a part of the SYNAT project . This system has been successfully included in the PSNC package DInGO – the set of tools to digitize and share collections on-line and it is currently used by dozens of Polish cultural and scientific institutions.

The registration for 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries organized in Poznan, Poland on 14-18.09.2015 is now open! Early registration deadline is the end of July, late registration closes in the end of August.

PSNC together with eleven leading national research and education networks (NRENs) representing the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe announced the official launch of the second “Enlighten Your Research Global” (EYR-Global) program. This program, which helps accelerate international research collaborations by providing selected proposals with improved networking, data transfers, and/or engineering, is now accepting proposals.

PSNC’s comprehensive activity aimed at forming a vast regional business and technology ecosystem based on the FIWARE platform and the Poznań Internet Innovation Hub has been recognised by the XIFI project which manages the FIWARE Lab federation of infrastructures.

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL, http://tpdl2015.info/) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries.

Succeed project final technical review took place at the end of February in Alicante. Experts invited by the European Commission evaluated all project outcomes. The final assessment of the project was “excellent”, which means that “the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations”.

A prototype version of the network service indexing open-source projects was recently made available under the MARKOS project, together with PSNC Open Source Competence Centre. We invite you to test this service!

PRACE association opened its 11th Call for Proposals on 9 February 2015 at 13:30 CET. This Call includes Multi-year Access as well as a Data Storage Service Pilot.