Inchingolo, Paolo

Ukovich, Walter

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Organization - Journal of Management, Informatics and Human Resources / Organizacija - Revija za management, informatiko in kadre (University of Maribor)

Organizacija, Volume 39 Reflections Number 3, March 2006207part of co-operation is to bring newpeople into our research and deve-lopment teams and to send our em-ployees to partner universities, whe-re they can get more practical andtheoretical experience, more flexibi-lity and adaptability in their work.PhD student education – it isthe second important part of work atthe University of Economics - Pra-gue. What is the main goal in thispart in the framework of ALADINgroup for our school? It is to offerthe chance to our PhD students atfirst to present and to discuss theirideas on the international field, thento be members of international re-search and development teams (forexample in living laboratories) andin the last level to take part on edu-cational process not only at thehome university, but also at otherpartner universities of the ALADINgroup.The General platform for star-ting and realizing of common pro-jects and preparing publicationswith our newly found partners is themost important of co-operation.Here all previously described activi-ties in the form of common projectscould be integrated, supported eit-her by EU or by local authorities.The Faculty of Informatics and Stati-stics offers practical experience forfinding partners for common pro-jects in following areas: general concepts of informationsociety, research of complexitytheory, chaos theory etc., e-commerce, e-business, e-heal-thcare, information and communicationtechnology security – also in va-rious modification as e-societysafe and stable, safe e-region,Web services security etc., e-government and public infor-mation services, information systems for enter-prises – ERP systems improve-ment, business processes, infor-mation system architecture,principles of outsourcing, servi-ce level agreements, information systems (IS) projectmanagement – developmentnew methodologies for IS pro-gramming, testing and improve-ment, new concepts of projectmanagement, IS reference mo-dels with special accent to pro-cesses identification, their me-trics definition and measure-ment and evaluation criteria ofprocesses and system effective-ness, etc. artificial intelligence, data-mi-ning, knowledge engineering.Through common internationalprojects we - all citizens of ALADINmember states – have the chance tobuild a new character of the Europe– to constitute new Europeans.Contributions ofALADIN to eRegionDevelopment: ThePerspective of theUniversity of Trieste Due to its particular geographi-cal position and to the very long tra-dition of Trieste as an “European in-tegrator”, in recent decades the Uni-versity of Trieste (www.units.it) hasreinforced its specialization towardresearch and education as well astraining excellence, particularly inthe fields of greatest interest for thedevelopment of an enlarged Europe,with particular attention to thetransformation and integration ofthe transitional countries of Centraland South-East Europe. In this ac-tion, a strongly synergistic effect hasarisen and it has the continuous gro-wing of national and internationalinstitutions and high-tech companiesaround the University of Trieste andits Area Research Park www.area.ts.it, which are globally known as the“Trieste System”: the National Institute for Nuc-lear Physics - INFN (section ofTrieste) www.ts.infn.it the International Center forTheoretical Physics – ICTPwww.ictp.ts.it the International School for Ad-vanced Studies – ISAS (cur-rently an independent Univer-sity) www.sissa.it the International Center for Ge-netic Engineering and Biotech-nology – ICGEB www.icgeb.ts.it the International Center forScience and High Technology –ICS www.ics.trieste.it the Elettra Synchrotron www.elettra.ts.it the National Institute for thePhysics of Matter – INFM (sec-tions of Trieste) www-dft.ts.infn.it/INFM the National Institute for Ocea-nography and ExperimentalGeophysics – OGS www.ogs.tri-este.it the CNR Talassographic Institu-te – ITT www.itt.ts.cnr.it the Trieste Astronomic Obser-vatory – OAT www.ts.astro.it and many other institutions andhi-tech companies (see www.area.ts.it “companies, institu-tions & labs”)These institutes are active in thefields of biotechnology, bioenginee-ring, neuro-science, information andcommunication technology, agricul-ture, sustainable development, eco-nomics and other fields.Currently, external researchersand professors and researchers fromthe University work together in allthe institutions of Trieste. This uni-que feature of the Trieste System al-lows a high level of research, butalso a strong range of academic edu-cation and training in most of the11 Higher Education in Clinical Engineering (SSIC-HECE) & Group of Bioengineering and ICT, University of Trieste, paolo.inchin-golo@bioing.units.it 12 Group of Operations Research, EEI Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Trieste, walter.ukovich@gnbts.units.it Paolo Inchingolo11, Walter Ukovich12Organizacija, Volume 39 Reflections Number 3, March 2006208fields covered by the research, eitherfor professional or R&D formation.The work of the University ofTrieste in fostering the cooperationand the integration within Centraland Eastern European Countrieshas been focused, started from 2000,with the creation of some transna-tional centers and networks. Theseinclude: the International Center forTransitional Countries (ICETS)www.icets.org (2000) the Central and Eastern Euro-pean University Network(CEEUN) www.icets.org/ceeun(2001) the Virtual University of theAdriatic-Ionian Basin (UNI-ADRION) www.uniadrion.net(2001) the Adriatic Balcanic IonianCooperation in Biomedical En-gineering (ABIC-BME) www.bioing.units. i t /ABIC-BME(2001) the Higher Education in ClinicalEngineering Network www.ssic.units.it (2001) the Central European InitiativeUniversity Network (CEI-UN)www.ceinet.org/main.php?pageID=81 (2002-2004) the Alpe Adria Initiative Uni-versities’ network (ALADIN)www.aladin.units.it (2002-2005).If all these initiatives have givenan important contribution to the de-velopment of the Region, and havebeen started and grown with manyinteractions and synergies each ot-her, it is without doubt that the mostsignificant one, ALADIN, has beenthe driving force for cooperationand growth in the Region under themultiple and integrated view of theuniversities, governments, diploma-cies and industries.Started the 23rd October 2002with an agreement on e-businesscooperation between the Universi-ties of Graz (Austria), Maribor (Slo-venia), Rijeka (Croatia) and Trieste(Italy), signed in Ljubljana during ameeting of trans-border e-commer-ce cooperation in the Region organi-zed by Prof. Jo`e Gri~ar, ALADINhas grown every year during the an-nual Bled Conference. On the 8th ofJune 2003, it was extended to NoviSad Business School (Serbia &Montenegro) and to the cooperationfields of e-Geomatics, e-Logisticsand e-Medicine. On the 20th of June,2004, it was recognized by the Medi-cal University of Graz, created fromthe Medical Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University. On the 5th ofJune 2005, it was further extended toUniversity BW München (Ger-many), Corvinus University of Bu-dapest (Hungary) and TechnicalUniversity of Košice (Slovakia), tocooperate in the ICT fields whichare crucial for the development ofthe Enlarged Europe, particularly e-Business, e-Geomatics, e-Govern-ment, e-Health, e-Learning and e-Logistics and the interactions amongthem (e-Integration); It continues togrow with the formal membership in2006 of Prague (Czech Republic)and of Krakow (Poland) and the ex-ternal membership (e-ALADIN) ofChina, Finland, Ireland and USA.There are many formal activitiesstarted and running at the Univer-sity of Trieste within the cooperationof ALADIN, including: The Higher Education in ClinicalEngineering Program (SSIC-HECE) www.ssic.units.it, with itsthree masters: the 1-year levelMaster in Clinical Engineeringwww. ssic.units.it/MIC; the 2-yearLaurea Magistralis in Clinical En-gineering www.ssic. units.it/LSIC,with three curricula (hospital, in-formation and management), the1-year Master-post-Master in Ma-nagement in Clinical Engineeringwww.ssic.units.it/ SMMCE The 2-year Laurea Magistralis inManagement Engineering andIntegrated Logistics www.ssic.units.it/ LSIG The ALADIN e-learning Agree-ment with ORACLE The multimedia platform of e-learning of SSIC-HECE (E-HECE) elearning.units.it The CEI-UN Spring School “ICT,economical and organizational is-sues for e-health integration inthe enlarged Europe”, www.ssic.units.it/ICT-SpringSchool in theframe of SSIC-HECE (held inItaly, Slovenia and Croatia) The “Open Three (O3) Consor-tium” www.o3consortium.org The “Integrating the HealthcareEnterprise” (IHE) TransnationalCommittee for Central & EasternEurope www.bioing. units.it/IHE-TCCEE The INTERREG III A Italia-Slo-venia “Italian-Slovenian Coope-rative E-learning Space(ISCELS) iscels.units.it The STREP-IST FP6 Project“Mobile-Game-Based Learning”(MGBL) http://mg-bl.com The Excellence Research Centerof Telegeomatics (GEONE-TLAB) http://www. units.it/~telegeom/ The FP6 European CoordinationAction “COllaborative DEmandand Supply NETworks”(CODESNET) www.codesnet.polito.it The EuroPACS-MIR in the En-larged Europe InternationalMeeting http://www.tbs.ts.it/ euro-pacs2004/ The Innovaction Fair (Udine)www.innovactionfair.com withthe participation of O3 Consor-tium An international ALADIN PhDprogram on e-integration (workin progress) Participation to the academic ac-tivities off many ALADIN Uni-versitiesFurthermore, the University ofTrieste participates in and contribu-tes to the organization of many ot-her activities, sponsored by the otherALADIN Universities, including: Merkur Day Workshops on LivingLabs the Workshop on Safe and Secu-re eRegion LivingLab Cooperation in the Finland &Slovenia eInvoicing LivingLabInitiative the MIPRO Conference, the e-BIZ Conference.In conclusion, in the vision ofthe University of Trieste, ALADINhas been, is and will be the key coo-perative network to develop theAlpe-Adria-Danubian EuroRegion.

Contributions of ALADIN to eRegion Development: The Perspective of the University of Trieste

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