Within the framework of the Erasmus + strategic partnership ParIS (Partnership in Information Security), Prof.s Dulce Domingos and Nuno Neves attended as LaSIGE | FCUL representatives at the first Intensive Study Programme in information security that brought together in Luxembourg students and lecturers from the 4 project partners

Prof. Alysson Bessani, is program co-chair of the IFIP DAIS'15 symposium, that will be held in the beginning of June in Grenoble, France. DAIS, that is on her 15th edition, is one of the most important european conferences on distributed systems and middleware, and is inserted at DisCoTec - International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques.

Prof. Antónia Lopes was invited to give a tutorial on software architecture at the 2nd Latin-American School on Software Engineering (ELA-ES 2015), to be held in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, from June, 30th to July, 3rd, 2015.
More details about the tutorials and the school can be found at http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/elaes2015/?page_id=50.

LaSIGE is local organizing ICBO 2015 - International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, that will take place at FCUL campus from 27th to 30th of July.

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Several LaSIGE members were involved in the organization of the "Girls in ICT Day” event, that occurred last April 23rd, 2015. The "Girls in ICT Day" - World Day for Young Women in Information and Communication Technologies, is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union, that visa to raise awareness to young women about career opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

André leal, LaSIGE researcher and MSc student of Informatics Engineering from DI/FCUL, achieved 2nd position at Task 14 of SemEval-2015, an international competition connected to the automatic processing and clinical text semantic analysis. The work was developed under the orientation of Prof.