Events

Below is a list of high profile events in various places around Europe during ETW'99. 

More information about these and other individual events can be found on the national web pages. A directory to these pages can be found by clicking here.

Other events may be found on the ETO site at http://www.eto.org.uk/events/keyevent.cfm and you can post a list of your own events to them at http://www.eto.org.uk/events/newentry.cfm.

If you prefer to send details of your events directly to us please send them to Ray Basteels    rbasteels@martech-intl.com

Finland

 
November 2 1999.
Logitimo OY organizes 2 events in Pori to celebrate European Teleworkweek
99.
1. Personal consultation event: "Have I knowledge at teleworking?"

2. Seminar: "How to market my skills at teleworking"

November 4-5, 1999, Levi, Lapland, Finland:
Preparatory work-shop: The Finnish strategy is to be a forerunner in the construction of an Information Society based on humane and sustainable development. To support this vision, a national master project – Quality of life, Knowledge and Competitiveness, addressing the seven areas as Culture, knowledge products and services, Development of electronic commerce, Personal navigation, The learning environment of knowledge networks, Knowledge based work, Business networking and telework and Local Information Society – has been launched. 
The Levi work-shop aims at drafting a co-ordinating mechanism for Business networking and telework.

Norway

October 29, 1999, Oslo.
Nordic Round Table Meeting on Telework and New Ways of Organising Work,
Participants: Senior researchers and experts on Teleworking and New Ways of Working from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Topics: Status of the art, on-going projects and plans for coming co-operation.

Sweden

November 2, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden: 
Seminar/work-shop at the Swedish Transport and Communication Research Board 
Participants: Senior researchers on teleworking and related topics and representatives for ministries and national authorities.
Topics: The impact of teleworking and new ways of organising work on transports and environment


November 9, 1999: Lindesberg, Sweden:
Inauguration of Herrgården at Masugnen, a Telework and Telelearning centre in Lindesberg - a small town with a successful telework strategy.

November 17, 1999: Ronneby, Sweden:
Work-shop on Regional and Local Telework strategies. 

AUSTRIA

GERMANY

 Virtual Workshop for Teleworkers and Managers

During the European Telework Week the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, Germany will organise a virtual workshop for teleworkers and their managers to discuss problems associated with telework in SMEs. The initial discussion forum with a selected group of participants will take place during the first week in November. The discussion will then be opened for a two week period to any other participants before the closing session in mid-November. The workshop is being organised as part of the ADAPT project TELESKOP and further information will be available shortly at www.teleskop.de . Anyone interested in participating in the workshop is requested to contact the organisers at teleskop@iwkoeln.de .  

Web page www.teleskop.de 

The University of Kassel are going to hold a workshop about the neccessity of telework in the state of Hessia. A couple teleworking specialists will be holding speeches and lectures during the workshop which will take place on Nov. 4th between 16.30 - 19.30 hrs.
web page http://www.uni-kassel.de/~schneid/workshop.html 

OnForTe is the Online Forum Telearbeit (online forum teleworking) which is being run and serviced by the German Postal Union. It´s being sponsoredpartly by Deutsche Telekom, German Ministry of Economy and Technics, the German Postal Union, the German Union of Governmental Workers and the Union of Media Workers/Employees. The project runs since 1997 and mainly answers employee-related questions regarding teleworking. The project will run until end of 2003.
They will have an online chatforum throughout the whole of ETW 99. Web-site  www.onforte.de 

A project initiated by the state of Baden Württemberg. On November 8th they´ll have a "real" teleworking day in Stuttgart with lectures, presentations, workshops all about teleworking. More information can be found at www.anwenderplattform-telearbeit.de 

A+A '99 
Arbeitsscutz + Arbeitsmedizin (2-5 November)
Conference & Exhibition - 
3rd November - A special day devoted to Telework related subjects (lectures, exhibition, etc.)
info +49 711 2598263
fax +49 711 259 8299
email  isg.lorenz@t-unlined 

European telecentre network TELWEB
TELWEB is a project funded by the European Commission. The goal is to establish a transnational European network of telecentres. Thetelecentre-network represents an organisationally and a physically integrated system of existing telecentres throughout Europe. It offers many kinds of external services particularly to small and medium-sized enterprises that want to outsource business functions, no matter what its sector or location may be. Services in this category include video-conferencing, information brokering, mailing assignments, desktop publishing, website design, fax and copying services, translation, provision of tele-learning facilities, and technical support and hotline services through callcentres. World-wide, TELWEB is a unique forum offering this kind of transnational platform for small and medium-sized firms.

TELWEB-team is available online for questions and suggestions

During the European Telework Week 99, which takes place in all EU member countries from 2nd - 8th November, TA Telearbeit the responsible co-ordinator of TELWEB arranges an information forum, which offers all people interested in TELWEB the possibility to discuss the project as well as to ask questions about its use. Inquiries can be adressed to the TELWEB team either via telephone, fax, email or video conferencing.
During the ETW 99 the information forum is opened daily from 9.00 h to 17.00 h. 

For further information please contact:

TELWEB TEAM
TA Telearbeit - Gesellschaft für innovative Arbeitsformen mbH
An Fuerthenrode 52
D-52511 Geilenkirchen
Tel.: +49 2451 95351-0
Fax: +49 2451 95351-10
Videoconference (H.320): +49 2451 959155
e-mail: info@telweb.org 
Internet: http://www.telweb.org 

 ITALY  
 European Telework Week 1999  

There are many events in Italy this year. To link to the Italian list of events click here.

Title of the event:  Ev@-net

Time and space in female work with new technologies

 Content:

Networked initiatives organised in many cities (Trieste, Venice, Padova, Verona, Milan, Acqui Terme,  Florence, Rome, Bari) with presentation and debate on women's experiences with information and communication technology in different sectors: research, universities, companies, private and public services, penitentiaries…

A proposal of reflection on new competencies, new workers and new labour market in the Information Society, using videoconferences between different organisations and sites.

Participants: students, employed and unemployed women, women in prison, researchers, experts, managers, workers' and employers' organisations, public institutions representatives.

Date: several days between 1-8 November 1999.

Sponsors and supporting organisations: in course of definition.

Contacts (temporarily):

Barbara Cannata, bacann@tin.it - tel. +39 06 8121597

 FRANCE

Congress organized on November 4 and 5 in Paris.

Notre travail ce n'est plus où nous allons, mais ce que nous faisons."

Congrès organisé dans le cadre de
l'EUROPEAN TELEWORK WEEK

4 et 5 novembre 1999

Palais des Congrès de Paris (porte Maillot)

Organisé par E.J. Krause & Associates
et l'A.F.T.T.

Sous le parrainage de
la Commission des Communautés Européennes,
Direction Générale XIII

More information can be found on  
www.aftt.net

THE NETHERLANDS

2 November 9-14.00 hour: symposium flexible work

Media Plaza Utrecht fax +31 (0)182-545563 Carlijn Crooimans

 3-4 November Online Learning, hotel Okura, Amsterdam

email: mailto:cusbe.nl

4 November Telework award Holland

seminar 14.00 - 22.00 incl dinner.

Nieuwspoort Den Hague email: info@telewerkforum.nl

BELGIUM  

Tuesday  October 26, -09:00

                  Télétravail – Qu’en est-il réellement?

                  Contact CRESEPT asbl
                  rue Lennik 806, 1070 Bxl.  Tel +32 2 523 3719
                  Participation in costs 6500 FB

Wednesday, November 3, Brussels – 19:00

Conference on “The Office of the Future” organised by BTA and the Fondation pour l’ Architecture”, at the Hotel Europa Intercontinental 

Le rôle des opérateurs dans le futur bureau virtuel 
Henri van der Vaeren, 
(Marketing Director, Belgacom Corporate Cusomers Division)

www.bta.be

Thursday, November 4, Brussels – 18:00

BTA Annual Reception, within the exhibition area “Le siècle des Bureaux” in the premises of the Fondation pour l’ Architecture

Friday, November 5, Brussels- all day

European Telework Awards Ceremony, at the Sodehotel (see www.etw.org website).  

The E-CLIP Project (Electronic Commerce Legal Issues Platform) will present a workshop on liability of on-line intermediaries on November 8th, at the Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (CRID), Namur, Belgium. The Workshop will take place in conjunction with an International Congress on electronic commerce to celebrate CRID's twentieth anniversary.For further information and subscriptions, please visit our web page at: Click here.

IRELAND

 Subject:    Living, Working and Developing in the Information Age

Location:  Tullamore Court Hotel,
Address:    Tullamore, Co Offaly, Ireland
Date:        11th and 12 November 1999
Time:        11th  Commencing 5.00 pm
                 12th  9.15am to 5.00pm

E-mail contact:  Riona Carroll          riona@telework.ie
                        Freefone: 1800 421426 within Republic of Ireland
                        Intl:  00 353 47 72069
URL:            www.telework.ie  

UK

FLEXIBLEWORK99

3rd - 4th November 1999
Holiday Inn Kings Cross
London WC1

URL www.telework.org

CANADA

Oct 27 is Canadian Telework Day 

http://www.ivc.ca/td99.html

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