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W-fFORTE’s “Views from Work” Campaign: |
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bridges vol. 22, July 2009 / Noteworthy Information
W-fFORTE , a program of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth that is managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG ), promotes economic initiatives by women in research and innovation. With its campaign "Views from Work," it invites all female researchers worldwide to participate in this campaign to demonstrate the diversity of women's workplaces in the field of technological and scientific research. Giving new insight into the varied work situations and the respective workplaces of researchers will eliminate the old-fashioned perceptions of research occupations and thus help to raise public awareness of the excitement female scientists face on a daily basis while doing their jobs. Moreover the readers will get a better idea of technological and scientific research jobs, which sometimes appear boring and monotonous to outsiders.
 The w-fFORTE "Views from Work" campaign was initiated in 2006 and has continued to grow ever since. A first insight into "Views from Work" has already been published as a booklet, which can be ordered (broschuere(at)w-fforte.at) or downloaded from the w-fFORTE web site (www.w-fforte.at ) in the domain "living science."
W-fFORTE would like you to become part of its "Views from Work" campaign. To do so, just follow a few simple steps:
1. Take a photo (with a mobile phone camera, a digital camera, ...) showing "This is my workplace!"
Snapshots, self-portraits, a view from work... Show where you are working and present yourself - on the top floor of an office building, far below the ground, in the rain forest, or in the innards of huge machines. What does your everyday office work, your laboratory, your multifaceted team look like?
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kulturpool.at – A Central Portal for Digitized Austrian Cultural Heritage |
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bridges vol. 22, July 2009 / Noteworthy Information
Comprehensive access to digitized cultural heritage is a central requirement for future strategies of the information society. Particularly in scientific research, an overall access to digital collections and their metadata of museums, libraries, and archives brings about new opportunities for research and makes it possible to analyze unforeseen relations between objects or whole collections.
 As a central access point, the Kulturpool provides a search service for the digital Austrian cultural heritage together with Web 2.0 functionalities. The Kulturpool is developed and implemented by uma information technology on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the Federal Ministry of Science and Research. The portal is based on uma's semantic search platform Melvil©. The initiative supports various national and European strategies and certainly encourages a closer relationship between culture and education.
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