With only one week to go, final preparations for EaPEC 2022, the 5th Eastern Partnership E-infrastructures Conference are in full swing and the organising team is busy adding all the finishing touches to every aspect of the event.
EaPEC 2022’s host, AzScienceNet from IIT of ANAS, the research and education network of Azerbaijan, is ready to welcome all participants to Baku, a city with a unique mix of history, modernity and traditions of unsurpassed hospitality, where East and West blend seamlessly.
The final programme includes 6 interactive sessions and over 20 presentations (some of which will be given remotely) from local and international experts in the field of e-learning, Open Science, Big Data and HPC, ICT Innovation, e-health and Digital Humanities.
The conference’s programme committee is delighted to announce that Professor Bilge Demirköz from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, will give the closing keynote: ‘A prelude to a long journey: from Big Data to Scientific Wisdom’. A leading physicist whose international experience includes 15 years at CERN working on the ATLAS experiment, Professor Demirkoz is currently the director of the Research and Application Center for Space and Accelerating Technologies at METU.
Since the last EaPEC in 2019, the EaPConnect project is able once again to utilise the EaPEC’s platform to give the research and education communities in the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU member states, the opportunity to interconnect in Baku. We are grateful to this year’s host AzScienceNet and look forward to them sharing their experience of EaPConnect and their expectations for the future of research and education in Azerbaijan.
The conference will kick off on Wednesday 28th September at 10:00 (UTC+4)) and live streaming of all presentations will be available to remote viewers around the region and the world from the conference website and GÉANT’s YouTube channel.
Travel Visa
EaPEC 2022’s organisers are urging all international participants who haven’t yet applied for a travel visa (90 days validity) for Azerbaijan to do this as soon as possible. Application can be submitted from this official site.