South-East European Research Centre (SEERC)

In the frame of the Research Students' Seminar Series at SEERC, we are pleased to announce a seminar to be delivered by Ms Darja Koturovic, PhD candidate, on the topic:"Governmental and non-governmental action against organized crime and drug trafficking in Serbia". The seminar is scheduled to take place in the SEERC Conference Room (3rd floor Strategakis Bld.), on Monday 21 May, 2012 at 10:00.

The work of researchers in SEERC's Information & Knowledge Management group came under the spotlight of an industrial case study report by WSO2 - a global leader in the area of enterprise middleware software. The report examines how SEERC created a software system to support governance and quality control in the next-generation cloud computing platform developed in research project CAST.

In the frame of the Research Students Seminar Series at SEERC, we are pleased to announce a seminar to be delivered by Mr. Konstantinos Bratanis, PhD candidate, on the topic:"Towards an integration and coordination framework for architecting multi-layered monitoring and adaptation of service-based applications". The seminar is scheduled to take place in the SEERC Conference Room (3rd floor Strategakis Bld.), on Friday 30th March, 2012 at 10:00.

The South East European Research Centre invites applications for studying towards a PhD degree of the University of Sheffield, through the Doctoral Programme of SEERC. The deadline for applying is April 30, 2012.

SEERC invites applications for one postdoctoral researcher position in the frame of the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network RELATE (Trans-European Research Training Network on Engineering and Provisioning of Service Based Cloud Applications).

SEERC receives funding for three new research projects: "SILVER", funded by the Life-Long-Learning Grundtvig Program, "English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat?", funded by The Leverhulme Trust, and "SEE-SCIENCE", funded by the SEE transnational cooperation Program.

The University of Sheffield has been named UK University of the Year, in the 2011 Times Higher Education Awards. The judges found it to be a quality, research-led university, and a community with values, confidence, flair and its sleeves rolled-up.