On 14th June 2006, Wednesday the Observatory for the Information Society and the National Technical University of Athens organize a one-day conference titled “New Development and Financing Tools for the ICT Sector”.

Following the successful workshop in Beijing, China, the W3C is organizing a second workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 30-31 May. The venue is the Foundation for Research & Technology (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, where the W3C is represented.

The Academic Research Computer Technology Institute (ΕΑΙΤΥ) and the Direction of Higher Education of the Prefecture of Arkadia organize a meeting on the topic: “Awareness and information of teachers of the Direction of Higher Education of the Prefecture of Arkadia on the educational exploitation of the services of the Greek School Network”, which will be held on Tuesday, May 16th at 17:00, in the Professional Technical School of Astros.

An International Conference on the topic "Exploitation of Information and Communication Technologies for E-Government and Local Development", is hosted on May 5th and 6th, in Heraklion, Crete, by KEDKE in cooperation with the Local Union of Municipalities and Communities of the Prefecture of Heraklion.

The Greek Society for Geographical Information Systems will host the IV Panhellenic Conference in Athens on May 4th and 5th 2006, on the topic "E-Government – The Role of GISs".

i-LEARN is organizing the 2nd European Conference on Life-Long Learning to take place in the Athens Imperial Hotel from Friday, 7 April to Saturday, 8 April 2006.

The Centre for European Studies, the Municipality of Veroia and the Regional Directorate of Primary & Secondary Education of Central Macedonia jointly organize a Meeting on “The European perspective in Greek education”. The venue for the Meeting is “Horos Technon” in Veroia on Saturday, April 1, 2006. The speakers will talk about the digital strategy of Greece for the period 2006-2013, new technologies in teaching applications, training in the dialogue between cultures, life-long education and developments in special education.

The National Documentation Centre (NDC) is organizing an event in cooperation with the General Secretariat for Research & Technology, with the support (and participation) of the European Commission. The subject matter of this event is the third Call of the Preparatory Action “European Security Research”.

On the occasion of the presence of EADS-Astrium (a satellite systems industry) representatives in Athens, the General Secretariat for Research & Technology is organizing a meeting to take place in the “Leon Zervas” Amphitheatre, Hellenic Foundation for Research (48 Vas. Konstantinou Street, Athens) from 9:30 to 14:00, 21 March 2006.