We are inviting early career researchers (in their individual capacity) to submit abstracts of their research and present it at one of our SEMIC 2024 pre-conference workshops.
“Interoperable Europe: From Vision to Reality”, the latest edition of the annual SEMIC conference, returns to Brussels on 27 June. Registration for the main event and the pre-conference workshops on 26 June has already started.
SEMIC is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the Commission’s flagship event on semantic interoperability and this year it will explore the wider context of the Interoperable Europe Act and its future implementation through the development, share and reuse of interoperability solutions, services and products.
How to participate in the Call of abstracts
A series of workshops will be organised the day before the conference, i.e. 26 June 2024. Each workshop will provide opportunities to discuss selected facets in the very rich overall context of SEMIC.
One of the SEMIC workshops is dedicated to early-career researchers and addresses SEMIC-related matters. As early-carrier researchers, we consider anyone in the final phase of a master's thesis, on a PhD journey, or a recently stated post-doc. Limited travel support is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
This workshop is co-organised by:
- The Belgian presidency and the Digital Flanders agency in particular, who have been working for more than 10 years on interoperability standards to make data flow more smoothly.
- FreshMinds, a collaborative space organized by the Innovation of Public Services and Digital Transformation of Governance team of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
- The Interoperable Europe Academy, is an educational initiative promoted by the European Commission to boost public administrations' advanced digital skills in the interoperability field.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Cross-border and cross-sector interoperability;
- The evolution of public governance under digital transitions;
- Agile approaches to digital governance;
- Citizen engagement and collaborative digital public governance;
- Digital-ready support services and communities;
- Data-driven policy making;
- Regulatory learning from experimentations with digital policies;
- Adoption of emerging technologies in the public sector;
- Bridging the skills gap to deliver next generation public services;
- Monitoring of public sector digital policies;
- Proposing impactful user-driven monitoring.
Learn everything about the submission criteria and deadlines in the full document!