Call for Student Participation: http://www.ruc.dk/~ncjuul/projects/Bled2003/

16th Bled eCommerce Conference
"e-Transformation"

The Graduate Students Bazaar:
Presentation of Electronic Commerce Prototypes and Business Ideas

With the participation of: IBM, Microsoft, Mobitel, Oracle & SAP

During the Bled 2003 Conference in Slovenia in June 9-11, 2003 graduate students will be given space and time to present their research projects. The presentations will take place at The Graduate Student Bazaar. The Bazaar will be a combined "trade fair" and "poster session". Students will present their e-commerce prototypes and discuss their ideas with conference participants. The presented software prototypes might stimulate Open Source Software Development. The student projects will be presented in parallel during a normal conference session and adjacent break periods at the conference itself.
Preference will be given to projects proposing new innovative or revolutionary e-Commerce solutions and new ways to implement e-commerce, as well as new ideas for business in Cyberspace.
Download a printable version of this call: http://www.ruc.dk/~ncjuul/projects/Bled2003/CFP.pdf

Professors: Please consider your most promising graduate students for this event. The Bazaar is intended for students aiming at the honours, masters or doctoral level but it is not an outlet for what might otherwise be a full conference paper.
Students:

Please submit a short proposal (2 pages max) describing your project and what you want to present in an email to the Chair of the Bazaar admissions committee Professor Eric van Heck at E.Heck@fbk.eur.nl before March 15 2003. The submissions must be supported by a statement of support by your professor/supervisor.

The selected student participants must be prepared to bring their presentation material including laptops, projectors, and posters etc. Access to the Internet will be provided on site. Further requirement to the available on-site equipment is negotiable. A short description of accepted project presentations (1 page) will be published in the business volume of the conference proceeding if received before the final deadline (April 30, 2003).
Like the Graduate Students Bazaar in 2000, 2001 and 2002, Mrs. Rosalie Zobel - Director New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce, Information Society, Directorate-General, European Commission - will address the 2003 Bazaar.

 
Important dates
  Proposals for Student projects
15 March 2003
 
  Notification of pre-qualification via e-mail
1 April 2003
 
  Submission of final short description:
30 April 2003
 
  Early (discounted) registration deadline
15 May 2003
 
 
Bazaar admission committee:

  Eric van Heck (chair), Professor of Electronic Markets, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands E.Heck@fbk.eur.nl  
  Robert Leskovar (co-chair), Assistant Professor & Head, Software Quality and Testing Laboratory, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia Robert.Leskovar@FOV.Uni-Mb.si  
  Jörg Becker, Professor and Director, SAP University Competence Center, University of Münster, Germany isjobe@wi.uni-muenster.de  
  J. Felix Hampe, Professor & Dean, Institute for IS Research, Computer Science Department, University of Koblenz, Germany Hampe@Uni-Koblenz.de  
  Marijn Janssen, Assistant Professor Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands MarijnJ@sepa.tudelft.nl  
  Niels Christian Juul, Associate Professor & Head of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Denmark NCJuul@acm.org  
  Craig Parker, Lecturer & Director, Master of Electronic Commerce Program, Deakin University, Australia cparker@deakin.edu.au  
  Paul A. Swatman, Professor & Dean of Information Systems, Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology, Germany & Deakin University, Australia
Paul.Swatman@uni-simt.de
 
  Doug Vogel, Professor/Chair of Information Systems, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, China ISDoug@is.cityu.edu.hk
 

Students with accepted presentations for the Bazaar must register as conference participants. Note that full-time students recommended by their professor are invited to apply for a grant to waive 50% of the conference fee. Students from selected projects will also be provided with free accommodation during the conference. Although further support for travel cost will be sought from the EU program, students must expect to pay the discounted registration and the travel costs, e.g. by asking for support from their professors, universities and/or other private funding.
Full conference fee before student discount is until May 15 €350 - 19% VAT included, which includes free transfers from either Ljubljana International Airport or Lesce-Bled and Ljubljana railway station. After May 15 the conference fee is €400 - 19% VAT included.

Proposals and statements of support must be e-mailed to the Chair of the Bazaar admission committee, Eric van Heck E.Heck@fbk.eur.nl before March 15, 2003.
    More info at: http://www.ruc.dk/~ncjuul/projects/Bled2003/