This December world leaders meet in Copenhagen to decide how we deal with climate change. Do you want to be part of this historical event? You can… Sign up and participate in the discussions on connect2earth and you could be selected to go alongside WWF and IUCN to Copenhagen. Enter the competition now and help shape the future! (www.connect2earth.org/introduction) This is a unique opportunity as the talks are closed to the general public.

Welcome to participate at the Russian Mobile VAS Awards'2009 competition. Entry deadline: October 16, 2009. The Awards winners will be announced at the VI Mobile VAS Conference gala dinner and Awards Ceremony on November 19. Russian Mobile VAS Awards'2009 categories:

September 30 - October 3, St-Petersburg, Russia, LenExpo, Building 7, Stand N28

We welcome you to visit Russian Innovation week that will be held in St-Petersburg, LenExpo on September 30 - October 3 and specifically visit the stand of FRUCT program (building 7, stand N28). Looking forward to see you in LenExpo!

Nokia Research Center (NRC) presented the "Smart-M3" open source platform at the NoTA Conference (www.vtt.fi/nota2009) Sept 30 - Oct 1, San Jose.

Smart-M3 is a new functional software platform developed by NRC Helsinki in partnership with SOFIA and the Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem project - DIEM). It allows multiple applications from multiple vendors to share ad-hoc information across numerous domains, enabling cross domain and cross platform interoperability.

The 6th FRUCT seminar will be organized in Helsinki, Finland on 3-6 November 2009. The seminar registration and training registration are closed since October 30, 16:00 Finnish time. We are glad to report that 227 persons have registered for the seminar and 37 persons actively attended the Qt training.