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The meeting served to discuss the challenges arising from the current economic crisis for a university community that has to face up to strategic change.

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Information and communications technologies have had a strong impact on the most vulnerable countries. ICT experts from around the world have analyzed how they influence socioeconomic development and the migratory movements of these societies.

Professor Pekka Himanen, one of the internationally best-known experts of the information age will give a lecture on "The Hacker Ethic: The Way Forward after the Current Global Economic Crisis".

The UOC's postgraduate courses start today, Wednesday 28 October, with some new developments.

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) Library has started up a new service for loan and use of e-book readers.

The 6th International University Teaching and Research Conference (CIDUI) which is to take place in 2010 has opened the call for presentation of symposium proposals until 15 January 2010.

Professor of psychology at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, John Edwards is to talk about Management of Language Diversity in the Classroom:

The UOC's Barcelonès Support Centre is to host the second EcoUniversity Conference organised by the UOC on Friday, 16 October.

Wiebe E. Bijker, professor of Technology and Society at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, is to give a lecture entitled Vulnerability of Technological Cultures.