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[FOIS 2025 - EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM]</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are excited to announce that FOIS’s Early Career Symposium is returning during the FOIS 2025 conference in Catania, Sicily. The symposium offers early career researchers an excellent chance to get a foothold in the field.
Please consider applying yourself, or sharing the announcement with others who may want to benefit. You may find the call for the symposium below, or on the official FOIS website (</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=510" id="OWAaaaa0292-449d-70bc-a3f8-51fae52592da" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=510</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)</span></div>
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<b>Early Career Symposium</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Submission deadline</b>: 25 May 2025<br>
<b>Questions to</b>: </span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="mailto:ecs-fois2025@easychair.org" id="OWAb607e340-ab79-e1e6-ed5c-8842732c1437" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">ecs-fois2025@easychair.org</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div>
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The Early Career Symposium (ECS) is an event dedicated to PhD students and early career researchers to present their work and gain insights from experienced researchers and industry professionals, as it enables participants to discuss research directions,
ideas, methods, and (possibly) results. The ECS also provides an opportunity for guidance on professional,academic lives and future perspectives, and facilitates networking within the formal ontology and information systems’ research community.</div>
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The symposium covers the same topics of interest as the main conference and is primarily directed at PhD students.</div>
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<b>FORMAT</b></div>
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The ECS will be held on-site during the FOIS 2025 conference and will include:</div>
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<b>Mentoring Lunch</b>: ECS participants will be paired with senior researchers who will offer feedback on their work and provide academic or professional advice.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<b>Fast-Talk Session</b>: Participants will have the opportunity to advertise their work in a 5-minute speech to the conference’s main track general audience.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<b>Poster Session</b>: A traditional format where participants can display and discuss their research in more detail.</li></ul>
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The ECS offers a unique occasion for the next generation of FOIS researchers to network and advance their careers.</div>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></div>
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<b>Submission deadline</b>: 30 March 2025</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<b>Notification of acceptance</b>: 19 May 2025</li></ul>
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<b>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To participate in the ECS, candidates need to submit a summary of their research project, limited to 5 pages, with at most 3 content pages and 2 reference pages. These summaries will be published as poster papers in the CEUR-WS
FOIS proceedings. Submissions must adhere to the 1-column CEURART style, with templates available in both
</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw" id="OWA7439c875-f1d1-ff58-5db1-1d328b04df9b" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">LaTeX</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and
</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip" id="OWA23a0a250-8f76-e550-fa3c-dd874eccb56e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Word
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Candidates must also submit an updated version of their curriculum vitae.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To submit, please use </span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2025" id="OWA425465e2-167e-9291-87b5-706a9ff1c3f3" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">EasyChair</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:
sign in, select “make a new submission”, and then choose the “Early Career Symposium” track.</span></div>
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<b>ORGANIZATION CHAIRS</b></div>
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Greta Adamo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Paweł Garbacz, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland</li></ul>
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César Bernabé and Eric Top (FOIS publicity chairs)</div>
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