We would like to congratulate FRUCT team that is developing Geo2Tag platform. The team was announced as a winner of FASIE START H1 grant for further development of the platform. Also according to the latest release of world analytics for open source location based services Geo2tag LBS Platform is rated at the world most popular Open Source LBS Platform. Wishing all the best and further business success to the team!

The Proceedings of the 11th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT have been accepted for inclusion in Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson  Reuters (Web of Sciences). For your information - proceedings of the 12th FRUCT conference are still under review and proceedings of the upcoming FRUCT conference will be submitted for indexing in CPCI. Congratulations to FRUCT publishing team and all authors of the 11th FRUCT conference. Submission deadline for 13th FRUCT conference is 25 February 2013. More information you can find here

We welcome all students and PhD students to take a part in the open contest of English language organized by FRUCT, Aalto university and EIT ICT Labs. The contest is targeted to stimulate studies of English language by the students and help us better understands needs and priorities of the students interested to study abroad. Any student can take part in the contest by sending to info(at)fruct.org English essay on the topic: "What motivates me to get MSc degree in Europe". The additional optional questions for the essay are: “What are the main barriers that I see for studying abroad”, “What study exchange programs do I know and what is the most attractive for me in each of the programs”, “What do I know about education in Finland and

We welcome you to take part in iOS winter school that will be held in Petrozavodsk on February 4-8, 2013. The school is open and free of charge event, supported by ENPI Karelia CBC grant KA-179. The school program will contain a series of lectures and hands-on exercises to teach development for iOS system, as well as a number of lecture on future technologies and presentation of the partnering program NordSecMob. Number of sits is limited and we will accept registrations based on the order of applying to position. To apply you should write email to info(at)fruct.org. Looking forward to see you in Petrozavodsk.

According to the latest release of world analytics for open source location based services (http://craftkeys.com/open/open-source-location-based-services/) FRUCT project Geo2tag LBS Platform was rated at the second position in the world. Geo2Tag team is targeted to become world leading open source LBS platform already in the beginning of 2013, when the new platform updates will be released, including, adaptation of multi-service server support and channel aggregation, which are currently in the final stage of development and testing.

 We would like to congratulate mHealth FRUCT team of FRUCT LLC with getting the first prize of the Skolkovo MD contest. The competition was long and really hard as all competing projects were of the high-quality and good level of innovations, which makes it even more pleasant to be the winner! Great applause the winner team and good luck to them in development of MD product!

The EIT ICT Labs Master's Programme welcomes you to apply for the new implementation of the program. The EIT ICT Labs Master's Programme is a two-year programme with 7 technical majors and a Minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. EIT ICT Labs Master's Programme is your chance to get double M.Sc. diploma from two out of 19 leading universties of Europe. Excellent students can be nominated for a scholarship including coverage of the tuition fees, one-time travel and installation support of up to 3000€, and a monthly allowance of 900€. The next application deadline is January, 15 2013. All applicants must have language certificate: TOEFL score 92 (with writing section 22) or higher, IELTS score 6,5 or higher, University of Cambridge