<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><span>(Apologies for multiple copies due to cross posting)</span><br><br><span>Dear friends of </span><span class="">ROBOCUP</span><span>,</span><br><br><span>I would like to draw your attention to a special session in EduCon 2016 called Educational Robotics. The IEEE EDUCON2016 will be held in the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The conference will be held in the beautiful Dusit Thani hotel from 11-13 April.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><span>IMPORTANT DATA IN SHORT:</span><br><br><span>IEEE EDUCON2016,</span><br><span>April 11 - 13, 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.</span><br><font color="#1155cc"><span><u><a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016</a>/</u></span></font></div><div><font color="#1155cc"><u><br></u></font><span>Paper submission</span><br><font color="#1155cc"><span><u><a href="https://www.conftool.com/educon">https://www.conftool.com/educon</a>/</u></span></font><br><br>Important Dates:</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission 23 November 2015</div><div>Notification of Acceptance 18 December 2015</div><div>Author Registration and Payment Deadline 10 January 2016</div><div>Final Paper Due 8 February 2016</div><div>Conference Opening 11 April 2016<br><br><div><span>The conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore® which ensures a wide dissemination of your valuable work. Once accepted and published (which is usually true for this conference), other indexing services evaluate conferences and independently determine what they will index.</span></div><div><br></div><span>For details on paper submission, registration or alike please</span><br><span>check our website at</span><br><br><a href="http://iav2016.inf.h-brs.de/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/proceedings.php</a><br><br><span>Note that the paper submission deadline is 23 November 2015.</span><br><br><span>In case of questions or doubts do not hesitate to contact the </span>Special Session Chair <br><span>Tiago Caldeira ( <a href="mailto:tiago.caldeira@ibtikar.io">tiago.caldeira@ibtikar.io</a></span> <span>)</span><span>.</span><br><br><span>We are looking forward to receive your paper(s) and to meet you</span><br><span>in person at EduCon2016</span><br><br><span>Best regards</span><br><br><span>Tiago Caldeira, </span></div><div>Special Session Chair</div><div><br><span>------------------------------</span><wbr><span>------------------------------</span><wbr><span>----------</span><br><span><br></span></div><div><span> Call for Papers for the EduCon</span><br><span> SPECIAL </span><span>SESSION </span><span>IN </span><span>EDUCATIONAL </span><span>ROBOTICS</span><span><br></span><br><span> <a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016</a>/</span><br><span> 11 - 13 April 2016</span><br><span> Abu Dhabi, UAE</span><br><br><span>------------------------------</span><wbr><span>------------------------------</span><wbr><span>----------</span><br><br><span>:: Introduction</span><br><br>Robotics is a growing area in the last decades, changing where it is applied. It was more present in the industrial environment but is now expanding itself to many others locations, such as home, offices and outdoors. Another relevant change is where robotics is introduced in education. It started as a University and Technical College subject but it’s now widely adopted in many High-Schools all over the world, some as an extracurricular activity and others as a support to STE(A)M Education. With the increase in the robotics education interest, many competitions started worldwide, as a tool to motivate the students and teach them while having fun. One of the key examples of that is RoboCupJunior. With the integration of automatic devices in many aspects of the daily life, the robotics related jobs are quickly increasing. In this special Session we intend to focus on the interaction between teachers, students and public when using Robotics platforms for education<br><br><br><br><span>:: Important Dates</span><br><br><div>Paper Submission 23 November 2015</div><div>Notification of Acceptance 18 December 2015</div><div>Author Registration and Payment Deadline 10 January 2016</div><div>Final Paper Due 8 February 2016</div><div>Conference Opening 11 April 2016</div><br><br><span>:: Submission Procedure</span><br><br><div><span>Submission</span></div><div><span>When you are sure your paper meets the formatting requirements please go to the conference's submission server: <a href="https://www.conftool.com/educon">https://www.conftool.com/educon</a> and create an account if you don't have one and submit your contribution.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Important: Please be careful when entering metadata such as title, abstract, author's names etc: verify these data because they are used for creating the conference program, the proceedings, the Xplore entries etc. In the worst case you have wrong data in IEEE Xplore which cannot be modified once submitted!</span></div><br><br><span>:: Sponsor</span><br><br>IEEE</div><div>Khalifa University</div><div>EBTIC</div><div>Abu Dhabi Education Council</div><div style=""><br><span>:: Committee</span><br><br><div><span>Eng. </span><span>Tiago </span><span>Caldeira, </span><span><a href="http://ibtikar.io">ibtikar.io</a> </span><span>, </span><span>UAE</span></div><div><span>Dr. </span><span>Amy </span><span>Eguchi, </span><span>Bloomfield </span><span>College, </span><span>USA</span></div><div><span>Eng. </span><span>Ali </span><span>Al </span><span>Marzouqi, </span><span>EmiratesSkills, </span><span>UAE</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Dr. </span><span>George </span><span>Wesley </span><span>Hitt, </span><span>Khalifa University, </span><span>UAE</span></div><div><span>Dr. </span><span>Benjamin </span><span>Hirsch, </span><span>EBTIC, </span><span>UAE</span></div><div><span>Dr. </span><span>Teresa </span><span>Restivo, </span><span>University </span><span>of </span><span>Porto, </span><span>Portugal</span></div><div style=""><span style=""><br></span></div></div></span></body></html>