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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">EarlyCareerSymposium @ FOIS2023 - Call for Submissions</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Part of the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held July 17-20
in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Important Dates: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Submission Deadline: March 15th</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Notification: April 15th</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted2 ContentPasted3">Website: <a href="https://fois2023.griis.ca/early-career-symposium/" id="LPlnk493018">https://fois2023.griis.ca/early-career-symposium/</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">The purpose of the Early Career Symposium is to provide students
and early career researchers with a stage to present their work and receive feedback from more experienced researchers.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Early career researchers will be able to discuss their research
directions, ideas, goals, methods, and (possibly) results. The Early Career Symposium aims to provide students with helpful guidance on different aspects of their research from established researchers and other attendees. Finally, the Early Career Symposium
seeks to facilitate students networking within the FOIS research community.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">The topics of interest of the ECS are the same as the main conference.
The symposium is primarily designed for PhD students, but it is open as well for recently graduated PhDs.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">Format:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">The ECS will be held as an on-site event during the FOIS conference. It will consist of: 1) a mentoring
lunch, in which ECS participants will be assigned senior researchers to provide feedback on participants’ work; 2) a fast-talks session, where participants will have the opportunity to advertise their work in a 5 minutes speech in front of the general audience
of the conference; 3) a traditional poster session.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">With the ECS, the next generation of researchers at FOIS gets an opportunity to network and build up
their careers. To this aim, we also plan to have an informal ECS/students dinner during the conference — you will be asked to choose whether to participate in the registration process.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">Submissions:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Submission deadline: March 15th</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Notification of acceptance: April 15th</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">To join the ECS, candidates should write a summary (up to 3 pages
excluding references) of their research project and upload it together with their short CV. You can find the template here:
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</span><a href="https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/FOIS_ECS_2023/ECS_submission_template.pdf" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">The template is meant to be used as a general reference to organize
the description of the submitted research project in different sections with specific contents. Make sure that the final version of your submission is in a single PDF file.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program
Committee. Final submission is via EasyChair (see submission instructions): </span>
<a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">After signing in, please select ‘make a new submission’ and then
the ‘Early Career Symposium’ track.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">Organisation:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France</span></p>
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