Welcome to the III Mobile Software Forum, (December 10-11, St. Petersburg) organized by RUSSOFT Association together with ADMIN Ltd. company and with support of a number of global leading mobile software and hardware vendors - Forum Nokia, Intel, Microsoft. The Mobile Software Forum is organized to help establishing direct communications between mobile telecom vendors, manufacturers of mobile software platforms, content providers, investors and software developers. For more information please refer to http://www.russoft.ru/msf/eng/index.html.

Russian students are welcome to take part in the Web-Ready contest and win some good prizes. The applications submission deadline is Nov 24.

The first-ever international Millennium Youth Camp (MY Camp) will be organized in Helsinki 6-13 June 2010. This is the week when the Winner of the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize will be announced.

MY Camp is targeted at young people (16-19 years) from all parts of the world whose interests lie in mathematics, the natural sciences, information technology and other technologies. There will be 30 participants, 10 from Finland, and all the educational activities, travel, accommodation and food will be provided free of charge. Participants will be selected on the basis of individual applications using a two-stage process. The application period began on 9 October and the first stage will end on 30 November 2009. The names of the successful applicants will be announced by 15 March 2010.

The multi-faceted MY Camp programme is based on three fundamental pillars - science, technology and nature - and includes lectures, workshops, visits to companies and universities and time for enjoyable social activities. The main themes are Environmental Science and Technology (climate change, renewable natural resources, renewable energy, water), Information and Communication Technology and digitalisation, and Applied Mathematics. One of the high points in the programme will be the opportunity for MY Camp participants to attend the Millennium Technology Prize Award Ceremony, during which the winning innovation will receive an award of one million euros. Application forms and the preliminary programme are available at: http://www.technologyacademy.fi/millennium-youth-camp-fi.html

Maemo Developer Day & Forum Nokia Qt for Mobile Developers training November 18-20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. As space is limited, we will accept registrations on a first-come, first-served basis. Event is free of charge. http://mktools.forum.nokia.com/invitation/qttrainingcopenhagen

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We are glad to announce that Alexandra Reyss from Petrozavodsk State University is the winner in Symbian Student Essay Contest 2008!

This year, Symbian commenced sponsorship of an annual research essay competition for university students on Symbian-related and wider mobile technology topics. This year's focus: "The next wave of smartphone innovation - issues and opportunities with smartphone technologies". Essays submitted should address one or more of the questions listed here. Up to ten essays will each be awarded a top prize of £1000. A special commendation will be awarded to those essays deemed of a high quality but which are not among the winning entries.

Update: on behalf of Lawrence Simpson, Head of University Research Relations (Symbian) and Sergey Balandin, General Chair of FRUCT program we sincerely congratulate Kirill Alexandrov, one of the three prize winners and Alexandra Reyss, author of one of three entries commended with an Honourable Mention.

All FRUCT projects are entitled to submit articles for professional review by FRUCT experts and the best articles published at FRUCT conferences can be later recommended for further improvement and publication at top international conferences. The recommended papers can apply for financial support for the trip of the main author to the conference.