In the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COFUND, the University of Padua offers talented Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) coming from all over the world a brand new International, Inter-sectoral, Inter-disciplinary and Innovative “training through research” programme.

Two special calls are reserved to KM-related topics. General details can be found at https://www.unipd.it/en/uniphd. The call will open on 11 Jan. 2022. More information will be provided next, or can be asked to [email protected].

Our member, prof. Ettore Bolisani announces a doctoral seminar organized at the University of Padova on “knowledge management and innovation management”. The seminar will also be open to PhD and post-doc students and our IAKM members, will be provided in mixed modality and can be attended online (via Zoom). The date will be announced shortly (end of January 2002 or beginning of February). Details will appear at www.iakm.net or http://www.ettorebolisani.eu/, or can be asked to [email protected].

The paper of our member, prof. Juan Gabriel Cegarra, titled, "The effect of organizational memory on organizational agility: Testing the role of counter-knowledge and knowledge application", has won the Outstanding Paper award in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards. This award-winning research was published in the Journal of Intellectual Capital by Silvia Martelo Landroguez and prof. Cegarra from Universidad de Sevilla, & Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and it has been made freely available and can be downloaded on: https://lnkd.in/gUXfwBEC

Our member, prof. Eric Tsui from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University received two awards recently.

First one is the “Knowledge Management Award 2021” (Individual Award) conferred by Knowledge Management Austria and the Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP) in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in the field.

Details of the award, an endorsement of his achievement by Professor Leif Edvinsson, and Eric’s thank you message at the award ceremony are available at http://www.km-a.net/networking/knowledge-management-award/.

Prof. Tsui is also a Platinum Winner for the Learn Live! Award 2021 (Australia) in the category of Best Pandemic Response – Elearning design. He has designed and operationalised the "Global Classrooms" which enable Internationalisation to continue at PolyU without any need for travelling. Through use of technologies and new pedagogies, the Global Classroom enables PolyU students to co-learn with students and teachers from third party institutions thereby gaining transcultural knowledge and practising collaborations and communications.

Our member, dr Florian Kragulj has successfully presented and defended his Habilitation thesis and have been awarded the Venia docendi (i.e., 'Privatdozent') for Business Administration by the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he continues to work as a Senior Scientist of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning.

His Habilitation thesis entitled "Knowledge Management and Sustainable Value Creation:  Needs as a Strategic Focus for  Organizations" is about to be submitted to Springer to be published in the IAKM KM book series. More will be announced soon at: short.wu.ac.at/kragulj.

Our colleague, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Heisig would like to announce the change of dates for the ICKM 2022.

Due to the high numbers of corona infections, the organizers had no choice but to move the 17th ICKM from March to June 2022.
The new conference dates are: Thursday, 23rd. and Friday 24th. June 2022.

Discount applies to IAKM members. This event will be a great opportunity to network with the colleagues from the ICKM but also from the other partners like gfwm (Association for KM in Germany and Austria), the Swiss KM Forum, the DGI (German Association of Information and Knowledge), the Working Group KM of the German Computer Society GI, the Knowledge for Development Partnership Network and ASIS&T SIG KM as well as delegates from the New Club of Paris.

More information is available at:  ickm2022.fh-potsdam.de/.