ICST - Call for Student Council Proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ICST Student Councils (a pdf version available at:
http://www.icst.org/Call_for_ICST_Student_Council_proposals.pdf)
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ICST (www.icst.org), a non-profit Institute for Computer Sciences,
Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, which sponsors
ICT related research, innovation, business, technologies and their
advancement in all sectors of society invites proposals for
organization of Student Councils - the anchors of young researchers in
an important technical area.

Description
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ICST Student Council is a branch of ICST community organized for and
managed by students, recent graduates, and junior researchers. Each
Student Council anchors ICST members in an important technical area
providing information, coordination, and collaboration means for its
members. These means may include common information portal hosting a
set of tools such as community news, job search, announcements of the
upcoming conferences, the platform for sharing novel ideas and
technical information exchange. ICST Student Councils provide the
support in conference/workshop organization and attendance to its
members.

Each Student Council is coordinated by its officers appointed to their
positions by the council Chair or Vice Chair. Officer positions are
opened according to council coordination requirements and unique
activities carried by the councils.

The organization of each Student Council and its activities is devoted
to the organization and coordination of ICST student members in a
specific technical area.
To this aim, Student Council maintains a homepage hosting a set of
tools (in the form of gadgets) facilitating collaboration,
organization, and information exchange between its members while
maintaining connection to revolutionary publication platforms
introduced by ICST such as online e-Journals, Inforways Portals, iC@ST
magazine, e-Techbooks, and Multipedia.

Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but
not limited to, computer science, mathematics, physics, economics,
statistics, medicine, law, and education.

Application Requirements
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All applicants should be willing to become a Chair of the proposed
Student Council.

The responsibilities of a Student Council char include:

* Provide leadership and a long-term planning of main strategic
activities;
* Responsible for recruiting and managing volunteer officers
coordinating Student Council activities in a specific area
(publications, events, industry relations);
* Work with the volunteer officers to develop technical focus and the
framework for implementation of the planned activities;
* Contribute to the interaction of the proposed Student Council with
the rest of the scientific community;

All applications must include:

* The name of the technical area for the proposed Student Council;
* Short description of the chosen technical area and the main focus of
the Student Council (1-2 paragraphs);
* List of technical topics covered by the council (5-15 items);
* Current curriculum vitae of the applicant

Evaluation criteria will include relevant experience and research
record of the applicant as well as importance of the proposed topic.
Applicants must show willingness and ability to lead communities
composed of a large number of junior researchers. Preference will be
given to young researchers, students, and recent graduates.

Application Submission
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Proposals for organization of Student Councils will be reviewed on the
first come, first served basis with the decisions made within 5 days
following the submission.
Applications should be sent to kliazovich RemoveThis @disi.unitn.it.