Summer School Organization – The Second European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2012) will be organized by the WIT laboratory. It will take place from July 15 to 21 in Brussels, Belgium.

New Erasmus Mundus Master – Esteban Zimányi is the coordinator of a new European Master's Programme in Information Technologies for Business Intelligence (IT4BI). The main objective of the programme is to train computer scientists who understand and help develop the strategies of modern enterprise decision makers. The curriculum is jointly delivered by Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium, Université François Rabelais Tours (UFRT) in France, Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) in France, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain, and Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) in Germany. This consortium will prepare the graduates not only to answer today's professional challenges by a strong connection with the needs coming from the industry, but also to pursue their studies into doctorate programs, through strong connections with the researchers' and innovators' views. IT4BI is a 2-year (4 semesters, 120 ECTS) programme.

New journal – Esteban Zimányi is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS), published by Springer. As in modern distributed environments, data comes from heterogeneous, autonomous sources, semantic elicitation and availability of appropriate semantic metadata are the key to meaningful use of information. JoDS will be devoted to research and development issues related to semantics. The first issue of this quarterly journal will appear in March 2012.

Research project – A new project called "Advanced ICT Platform for Rehabilitation" (ICT4Rehab) started on February 1st, 2011. The ICT4Rehab project addresses a new rehabilitation paradigm in the domain of muscle spasticity rehabilitation. It will require the integration of various data sources, the development of novel algorithms and putting into practice several ICT tools supporting 2D/3D user interaction. The project's main results will be the ICT4Rehab platform that will include the developed technology in several demonstrators (a Serious Gaming demonstrator and a Clinical Analysis demonstrator). Developments will be guided by the goals of generalising the methodology to other pathologies requiring motivational sustainability and clinical analysis, and to lead to a technological platform for future developments in diverse areas. ICT4Rehab is a research project supported by the Brussels Capital Region. In addition to CoDE-WIT, there are three other teams taking part in the project: ULB MLG and ULB LABO and VUB ETRO.

Summer School Organization – The First European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2011) will be organized by the WIT laboratory. It will take place from July 3 to 9 in Paris, France.

Research project – A new project called "Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels" (OSCB) started on February 1st, 2011. OSCB aims to cover Brussels, metaphorically speaking of course, with a cloud of structured and interlinked information elements produced by “atomizing” a collection of relevant databases and other resources. Linked Data is a global initiative to interlink resources on the Web using two “simple” technologies: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for accessing the resources and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for representing knowledge and annotating those resources. Various governments (UK, US, Germany) are launching initiatives to (a) make public sector data easily available with Linked Data and (b) encourage researchers to analyze the data as well as application developers to build applications around that data, in order to stimulate innovation, business and the general wealth of society. OSCB is a research project supported by the Brussels Capital Region. In addition to CoDE-WIT, there are three other teams taking part in the project: VUB STAR Lab and VUB ETRO and EHB-CVC.