"The European Commission's Information Society Directorate-General will be presenting the results of leading edge IT projects and looking for future innovation partners at the Orbit/Comdex Europe 20001 exhibition, in Basel, Switzerland on 25 to 27 September.

The results of 25 leading edge EC-supported IT research projects, part of the i3net network of excellence, will be on show at the i3 Research Village. The display brings together new technologies developed under the two poles of the i3 research programme - Connected community and Inhabited information spaces (CI) , which explores computing for real and virtual communities, and Experimental school environments (ESE) , which focuses on the school environment of the future for 4 to 8 year-old children.

The Information Society Directorate-General's Future and emerging technologies programme will also be looking to attract further private sector partnerships for research under the next Framework Programme (FP6) .
 
The Orbit/Comdex event will also feature talks from those involved in i3 projects and a discussion of the concepts and issues underpinning new technology developments.The i3 (Intelligent information interfaces)  initiative was launched by the Commission in 1995 to find ways of improving interaction with technology for the broad population of non-specialist users. The scheme is continuing to develop this concept, in particular through 'intelligent' technology which enables users to interact with technology, information and other people in an intuitive, human-centred way."

 

For further information, please visit: http://www.i3net.org