2.2.6 Training activities

The FERMI project will pay particular attention to training activities. The most appropriate channels will be sought and exploited. The training activities will have two objectives:

• to stimulate the Information Retrieval and Multimedia Information Systems research community by reporting the results of the research work conducted within the FERMI project. International Conferences (SIGIR Conference, SIGMOD Conference, Int. Conference on Multimedia Information Systems, VLDB Conference, Hypermedia Conference, etc.), and International Journals (ACM TOIS, ACM TODS, Information Processing and Management, etc.) seem appropriate channels for the above activity. In addition the Summer School on Information Retrieval, which is currently held every two years, could be an appropriate event in which to present the main results of FERMI. The Summer School could become a yearly event and establish links with the FERMI project. This could be facilitated by the fact that some of the organizers of the School also participate in the FERMI project.

• to transfer the knowledge, the results and the achievements of the FERMI project to the industrial world. This activity is of particular importance since the FERMI project aims at contributing towards the building up of the next generation of multimedia information systems. Therefore, specific and concrete ways for knowledge transfer to IT industries should be sought.

The FERMI consortium has tight links with the Network of Excellence IDOMENEUS, in which GU-CS is responsible for the Technology Transfer activities and CNR-IEI for the technical organisation of scientific events, and the MIRO Working Group. These links will facilitate the task of achieving both these objectives. Indeed, many of the training activities based on the work carried out in the project work will be operated through the Network.