The new call for proposals of IMI 2 – Innovative Medicines Initiative 2, identifies, under the Topic 3: Data quality in preclinical research and development, a key deliverable directly associated with a work developed by the LaSIGE integrated researcher Francisco Couto, published in 2014, with the title ‘Rating, recognizing and rewarding metadata integration and sharing on the semantic web’ in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW'14) – 1259: 67-72.

Manuel J. Fonseca was co-chair of the Workshops at EUROGRAPHICS 2016 - 37th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, that took take place from May 9th to 13th, 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal.

More information at: http://eurographics2016.pt/

Manuel J. Fonseca was general chair of the Expressive 2016 - The Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics (CAe), Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM) and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), that took place from 7-9 May 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.

More information at: http://expressive.graphics/2016

Francisco Couto, leader of LaSIGE's Biomedical Informatics research line is one of the confirmed trainers at the “OMICs in Biomedicine: Linking Genes and Metabolites” course, organized by iBiMED research unit, under the International Advanced Training School 2016 in Molecular Medicine program.

Tiago Guerreiro was invited to be one of the speakers at the first edition of the seminar "Envelhece AtivaMENTE" (Growing old actively), that took place yesterday May 5th, at Setúbal, Portugal, organized by LATI - Liga dos Amigos da Terceira Idade, with the support of the APP - Associação Portuguesa de Psicogerontologia.

Several LaSIGE members are involved in the organization of the "Girls in ICT @ Ciências.ULisboa", that will take place next April 30th, 2016.
With this event, the Department of Informatics (DI) at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, joins the international celebration of the "International Girls in ICT Day".
Follow this LINK for registration.

Vinicius Cogo and Alysson Bessani won the Poster Presentation Award at EuroSys 2016, held in London, UK, April 18-21, 2016.
The prize was awarded to the poster Efficient Storage of Whole Human Genomes.

ParIS project meeting and ISP course welcome reception, counted with the visit of the Luxembourg Ambassador to Portugal, Paul Schmit.

The event took place at the facilities of Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL),in the first of two days of project meeting, at April 14, 2016.

ParIS ISP at Lisbon, Portugal, has just started.

The second Intensive Study Programme in Information Security, within the framework of the Erasmus + strategic partnership ParIS (Partnership in Information Security), has started today, April 11,2016, bringing together students from three and lecturers from four different countries.

Teresa Chambel is co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium at TVX' 2016 - ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, that takes place in Chicago, IL, USA, on June 22-24, 2016.