SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS FROM YOUNG SCIENTISTS
Deadline for Abstract Submission:
31 May 2008
CODATA is pleased to announce a Special Call for Papers from young scientists working in the scientific data community. You are invited to submit abstracts for possible presentation at the 21 st CODATA conference “Scientific Information for Society- from Today to the Future”. The CODATA 2008 Conference takes place at the National Technical University, KPI, in Kyiv , Ukraine on 5-8 October 2008, see http://www.codata.org/08conf/index.html .
The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Program Committee in consultation with members of the newly appointed CODATA Young Scientists Committee . A number of papers will be selected for special presentation at the conference. The registration fee will be waived for the selected speakers and their local costs will be covered.
Deadline for Submission is: 31 May 2008
What is a young scientist?
To be eligible to be considered you must ideally be under 35 years. In certain cases exceptions may be made but the absolute age limit cannot be over 40. Ideally a Young Scientist should have received a PhD or equivalent within three years prior to the Conference.
Submissions should relate to one of the Conference topics.
Details via
http://www.codata.org/08conf/callforpapers-youngsci.html .
CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology) was established in 1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council of Science (ICSU), formerly the International Council of Scientific Unions. It seeks to improve the compilation, critical evaluation, storage, and retrieval of data of importance to science and technology.

absolutely this is a great opportunity for young scientist to perform their active role in the advancement of information technolgy and share information with their seniors.
secondly through this conferrence young scientist can be able to dispress scientific awareness and motivate themselves.
The nature and use of scientific data and information and the conditions under which scientific data and information are produced, distributed, and managed, and the role of scientists and other actors in these processes have been changing rapidly in recent years. These changes are partly a result of the revolution in computational capacity and connectivity and advances in hardware and software that have provided scientists with a greatly increased capacity for data gathering, analysis, and dissemination. They are also related to the emergence of new questions in scientific research that require
different types of data. Taken together, these changes are providing scientists throughout the world with more and enhanced access to research data and information. The benefits of this include the growing involvement of scientists in international research projects and increased scientific and policy interest in global scale and comparative research activities. Meanwhile, the legal concept of intellectual property as applied to scientific data and information is also in a state of flux and there are still major obstacles to data access in many parts of the world. Because of the critical importance of data and information in the global scientific enterprise, the international research community must address a series of new challenges if it is to take full advantage of the data and information resources available for research today. Equally, if not more important than its own data and information needs, today’s research community must also assume responsibility for building a robust data and information infrastructure for the future.
The current faced senioreio of economic development of EU-countries as well of the countries in the Central and Eastern (C&E) European region has been leading to a vital use of a great deal of reneable and nonrenewable resources as well as to noticeable environmental problems. Targeted on the project “Baltic environmental information dissemination system (BEIDS)” which has been acting as a focal point for the circulation of intelligent information on aspects of the marine environment among a sample of seven Baltic countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden (EU) and Lithuania, Poland and Russia (non-EU), contributing to networking and know-how exchange, complementing efforts towards transregional cooperation in sustainable spatial planning on the basis of Baltic 21. The results reached to date include: increased awareness of matters related to sustainable development in the six participant countries; enhanced communication exchange and networking among the sampled nations; improved information flow and increased participation in events, activities and programmes across the Baltic Sea region. BEIDS is a prime example of the feasibility of using marine research as a tool for sustainable development and the results reached over the first two years are reviewed in this paper.
Please avoid just copy and paste. Please put your own solid comments/your own thoughts.
Thanks.
I completely agree with farri - as scientists, we should come up with original ideas and reference properly the sources of whatever material we use. WAYS is no platform for copy and paste exercises.
Is there any avaliable funds for this conference, it taks place in Ukraine