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The IN3 and the  CYTED-HAROSA Network offer to their active members three competitive scholarships for Visiting Researcher / Visiting Junior Researcher at IN3-UOC (Barcelona, Spain) during one complete month.

More information here. 

On 30th March, the IN3 held the " Technopolitics and Network Democracy" Open Day, an initiative promoted by the  Free Culture Forum in collaboration with the IN3.  Springing from different experiences, particularly the 15M movement, social networks have been reappropriated through innovative uses that have generated emerging political processes of collective action and social transformation. In the face of a crisis of representation and of 20th-century organisational structures, people have decided to organise themselves without intermediaries, thus multiplying their opportunities to participate and intervene.

This issue, which corresponds to the 2011, includes four articles, related to our latest resident investigators' researches, plus a research report written by a Research Fellow.  

Julio Meneses and Josep Mª Mominó, both researchers of the ENS research group (Education and Network Society), have published the article “ Quality schooling in the Network Society: A community approach through the everyday use of the internet.” in The School Effectiveness and School Improvement:  An International Journal of Research, Policy and  Practice (ISI indexed) . The research is based on empirical data obtained during the research project "Schooling in the Network Society: Internet in Primary and Secondary Education" (Project Internet Catalonia).

The Seminar on Communication and Civil Society becomes a research programme.

Eduard Aibar, GADE researcher, and Rubén Nieto, PSINET researcher, win two projects on 2011 RecerCaixa Call.

Joan Torrent-Sellens, Director of the i2TIC Research Group, along with nine economists win the Joan Sardà Dexeus 2011 Award for the book “ La indústria catalana després de la crisi.”

Migration and Network Society Research Programme coordinates an online survey, launched on October 10th, which will investigate how migrants are using new information and communication technologies (ICT). Participants will be asked how they use the Internet and mobile phones to talk with friends, to find information, to get a job, and participate in the local community and wider society. To find out more about the research project, go to www.connectiem.net.

The Mobile Communication, Economy and Society research programme is one of the promoters of the international network Active Ageing and Mobile Technologies.

Presentation of the book "Comunicación Móvil y Desarrollo Económico y Social en América Latina".

This edition includes three documents and is available online covered by a Creative Commons licence.

Lídia Arroyo, Research Assistant of the Mobile Communication, Economy and Society Programme of the IN3, is the Prize Winner of the Concurs de Joves Sociòlegs.

The "Seminars of Reflection and Debate" and the Conflictology Research and Studies Centre have joined the IN3, along with the SUNAI research group.

PSINET,  IN3 research group, coorganises the international forum jointly with the IWK Centre of Research for Family Health  and the LabPsitec Laboratory of Psychology and Technology, Universitat Jaume I.

HAROSA, IN3 Knowledge Community, has obtained a new research project, the CYTED’s “Red Iberoamericana de Algoritmos, Software Libre y Computación Distribuida para la resolución de problemas de Routing, Scheduling y Disponibilidad de Sistemas” (HAROSA@IB).

This is a pioneering research that studies the structure and value elements of trade and tourism microenterprises in Catalonia from the analysis of the primary source of information.
The study supervised by Dr. Joan Torrent, has been carried out by researchers of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on ICTs (i2TIC) attached to the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute (IN3) of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in collaboration with the FOBSIC.

The IN3 launches an online publication addressed to the scientific community, academics, professionals and students who share the same interests of knowledge as the Institute