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Statistics in Austria show a significantly higher unemployment rate of people with migration background compared to those without such a background. This situation is further aggravated by the increased application of modern technologies that replace jobs with automated systems. People with migration background in Austria tend to have a lower qualification and corresponding jobs that are in higher danger of being automated. This paper presents the concept of the project ROBIN that employs educational robotics for inspiring young people towards engineering and technology. In this context, a focus is specifically put on supporting young people with a migration background. Also the results of an interim project evaluation are presented and a few lessons learned are discussed.

In current networked organizations knowledge is distributed among the organization and their partners resulting in the loss of transparency regarding the kind and the place of knowledge within the network. Our approach is to use the semantic technology together with software agents in order to improve knowledge capturing, reuse and transfer. Our paper describes an ontology-based multi-agent approach for the knowledge exchange and process control with and within virtual enterprises. Different case-studies with different ontologies are combined with a negotiation ontology, which is used as intercrossing, to support semantic interoperability between heterogeneous inter-as well as cross-company levels.