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int.unity – Building up of an international trade union community in the net: experiences, reports, prospects

Final Symposium on January 27th/28th in Brussels, International Trade Union House

The project int.unity comes to an end in January 2004. We want to present the results of the project at a final symposium to interested European Trade Unions and European Works Councils. Agenda:


27-01-2004
19.00 h	Arrival
20.00 h	int.unity - a contribution to the strengthening of the transnational cooperation of trade unions in Europe Tony Kearns, Senior Deputy General Secretary, CWU Lothar Schroeder, Head of Innovation and Technology Policy, ver.di
28-01-2004
09.00 h	Support of Innovations - ESF Art. 6 Liesbet de Letter, European Commission, GD Employment & Social Affairs
09.30 h	Online communication in transnational trade union projects - experiences with the project int.unity Claus Zanker, project manager int.unity
10.00 h	Coffe break
10.30 h	The online discussion in the project int.unity: reports and results of the transnational project teams
	Trade unions and new economy Michael Schwemmle, ver.di
	Trade unions and Internet - E-Union Phil Bowerman, CWU
	Trade unions and European Works Councils, organizing and trade union recognition Luis Neves, ver.di - Discussion -
12.30 h	International trade union activities and the work of European Works Councils on the Internet: presentation of an int.unity study Andrew Bibby, journalist und consultant, Great Britain
13.00 h	Lunch
The technology in the project int.unity
14.00 h	Computer Support for Cooperative Work - the int.unity internet platform BSCW Thomas Koch, OrbiTeam Software GmbH, Bonn
14.30 h	Language technologies - possibilities and limits at the overcoming of language barriers in the project int.unity Prof. Dr. Johann Haller, IAI, University of Saarbruecken Rita Nübel, IAI, Saarbruecken
15.15 h	The int.unity technology - experiences of the user Claus Zanker, Project manager, ver.di
15.45 h	Discussion
16.15 h	Coffe break
16.45 h	Demonstration of the int.unity technology
17.15 h	int.unity - Building up an international trade union community in the net. Results and outlook Lothar Schroeder, Head of project int.unity, ver.di, Berlin
17.45 h	End of the final symposium
This agenda was translated from German to English with the help of the int.unity language tools!

int.unity - Building up an international trade union community in the net

It is the intention of the "int.unity"-project to overcome existing barriers in international trade union activities such as geographical distance and language problems of the trade unionists involved by using modern information and communications technologies.

This will be achieved by building up an Internet platform, which can be used by trade unionists for communication in both the German and the English language by means of integrated language technologies. The actual application of language technology and an Internet platform will ensure continuous, efficient and cost-effective cooperation between trade unions at the international level; at the same time the applied technologies will be adapted to the requirements of the target group "trade unions" and "shop-floor workers´ representatives" and optimised on the basis of user feedback as the project develops. This applies to both manageability and user-friendliness of the Internet platform and the quality of translated texts.

The cooperating trade unions will be enabled, through the availability and optimisation of innovative technologies, to discuss important issues in an efficient, high-quality manner and within the European context, to transfer "best-practices" and to agree on joint analyses and action recommendations.