CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

OUTIS Conference on Deception
Leisure Time and the Human Being
May 19-21, 2005
Helsinki, Finland

Organizers:
The Haaga Institute Polytechnic
University of Jyväskylä
National University (California)
European Institute for a Sustainable Information Society

Conference programme and relevant links see

http://www.haagatutkimus.fi/outis/index.html

SIS-colloquium, 18.6.2004
As a part of establishing the European Institute for a Sustainable Information Society, a SIS-colloquium, which was participated in by researchers from various institutes of higher education, both from Finland and abroad, was held in June 2004. Focus was given to e-citizenship, welfare technologies, future user interfaces, the enlargement of the European Union, teledemocracy and the cooperation between the European Union (especially Finland) and Russia. Aristotle's and other classic philosophers' views, as well as the views of recent sociological research on urban societies and their development, where individuals' and communities' moral, aesthetic, and political values are taken into cognisance, worked as starting points for the seminar.

Safety and Crisis Management in Europe, 30.10.2004
The European Institute for a Sustainable Information Society and the Department of Management and Leadership of the (Finnish) National Defence College co-organized the seminar Safety and Crisis Management in Europe in the Kasarminmäki campus in Kouvola, Saturday, the 30th October, 2004.

A Good, Sacred Society
A colloquium under the title "A Good, Sacred Society" was held in January 2005 in co-operation with various Finnish researchers and institutes of higher education. The participants of the colloquium visited the Valamo Monastery (in Heinävesi) and the Joensuu Science Park (in Joensuu). This colloquium of the European Institute for a Sustainable Information Society concentrated on ethics and moral philosophy.