The first TEEM (Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality) conference will be held in Salamanca (Spain) on 14-15 November, 2013. Organised by the Research Institute on Educational Sciences at the University of Salamanca, the event is born within the framework of a new PhD Programme on Education and Knowledge Society. 
TEEM is divided in 11 thematic and highly cohesive tracks. Each track shares the scientific and formal aspects for paper submissions, peer reviews and publication, but the track chairs will organise the proper dynamics to achieve the most important goal: to create a researching community. 
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will become part of the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN. 
Social events for all the participants will be made in order to strength the intercultural and multicultural skills among them, independently of the tracks in which they have been involved. 
Address Paseo de Canalejas 169

The 2013 Ubiquitous Learning Conference will be held at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, Spain, on November 14-15, 2013.
The conference will examine the ways in which new technologies are changing how, where and when learning takes place. It will consider, for example, how computing and networking devices might benefit learning not only in the classroom but well beyond the times and places traditionally considered the purview of education. 
The e-Learning Conference will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field, as well as numerous parallel presentations by researchers and practitioners. 
Address Calle Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015 Madrid
Website http://ubi-learn.com/the-conference.

By ligia ribeiro, Andrea Pera Vieira, Pedro Leão Ramos Ferreira Neto, Maria Pinto. The e-Learning Café project of the University of Porto: innovative learning spaces, improving students’ engagement in active and collaborative learning.
This paper reports the ongoing research project headed by the University of Porto and the research group Centre of Spatial Representation and Communication, from de R&D Centre of its Faculty of Architecture (FAUP), which aims the design and study of hybrid spatial environments.  
E-Learning Centres. Our main objective is to present and discuss the contribution of the E-Learning Café project of the U.Porto and of the successful implementation of its program, focused on learning physical spaces able to combine social interaction with diverse pedagogical and cultural activities. All these have proven to be an important relational dimension for all the people working or studying at U. Porto and an asset to foster the openness of the University to the society.

By Katerina Zourou. How does the design of social networked language learning communities have an impact on the way evidence based research is conducted? 
This paper critically examines the degree to which the design of data accessibility and data ownership impact the research activity and the challenges faced by researchers who take these communities as object of analysis. To illustrate these challenges, I take as example web 2.0 language learning communities, the most well-known being Babbel, Busuu and Livemocha, among all possible types of informal, social network based language learning. This study illustrates the tension between on the one hand, the need for a more evidence based understanding of the under-explored field of informal social network based learning, and on the other hand, the obstacles to this scientific exercise. Finally, I discuss how this tension is situated in the current landscape of global research activity that calls for more open, transparent and participatory structures for data sharing and collaborative research.