European Telework Agenda and European Telework Week 1999

1999 marks the launch of Europe's Fifth Framework Programme, in which telework and other new ways to work are strongly focused. The European Telework Agenda brings together the key events and activities relating to telework at European level, and culminates in the fifth European Telework Week in November 1999.

The European Information Day on 1st June is an opportunity to be updated on the European Commission's policy, information, research and stimulation activities with regard to telework and to preview the 1999 European Telework Status Report. It also marks the official public launch of Telework Week 1999 and the Call for Nominations for the 1999 Telework Awards.

09:30	Registration, coffee
10:00	Opening by Peter Johnston, Head of Unit "New Methods of Work" Introducing the European Telework Agenda
10:15	Keynote speech: Work in the context of Information Society development Joan Majo, Chairman, Information Society Forum Working Group 1: "Jobs and Employment in the Information Society"
10:30	1999 Status of European Telework: Jeremy Millard, Danish Technology Institute; Project Manager, European Telework Development
11:00	European Policy Context: Social Policy developments: Jobs in the Information Society Marie Donnelly, DG V, Head of Unit D3, Information Society Structural Funds support Jos Janssens, EUROPS, Adapt and Employ
	5th Framework Programme support: Aims of the programme 1999 Calls for Proposals 2000 Work Programme Paul Lagasse, Advisor to the IST Programme, University of Gent
12:30	Lunch: opportunities for networking
14:00	European Telework Awards: Rationale 1998 Award Winners Maarten Botterman, Telework Coordinator, DGXIII The FUEVA experience: what happened after Manon van Leeuwen, winner of the European Telework Award for Best Public Initiative, 1998 Call for nominations 1999: Categories, procedure Elise Briand, ETW Co-ordination office
14:30	European Telework Week: European Commision - rationale Results of ETW98 Expectations for ETW99 Call for Initiatives 199 Ian Culpin, ETW Co-ordinator, Martech International
15.00	Technologies enabling Telework: building on 4th Framework Programme results Horace Mitchell, Programme Director ETD, Chairman, Management Technology Associates
16.00	1999 Key Events International workshop, Tokyo Paul Jackson, Brunel University, Chair of the International Telework Foundation European Telework Assembly, Aarhus, and related events Jeremy Millard, Danish Technology Institute; Project Manager, European Telework Development
16:30	Conclusions and look ahead by Peter Johnston

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