 Good morning from Krakow. My name is Jan Piasecki. I'm a principal investigator of the web immunization team. I would like to welcome our speakers, participants and of course our viewers. And before I invite our honor our guests to welcome you on behalf of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. I just want to remind you a few things about our project. So our project, the web immunization project, is funded by the EEA grants and National Science Center in Poland. And you can learn more about the project by visiting our website www.webimmunization.cm-uj.krakow.pl. You can find there that our research consortium consists of four institutions, the other dimension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, University of Oslo, Poznań University of Technology and the Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences. This event is organized by the Jagiellonian University Medical College and the Kostiuszko Institute. And I would like also to give you a few hints about the ecct.io platform, some technical explanations because most of you connect are connected with us through this platform. So first of all, every participant can ask questions. So there is a special questions window just below the live streaming and your questions will be submitted to our questions moderators. Then if your question is accepted, it will be visible to all participants. At the end of every session, our moderators will submit these questions to speakers but also throughout the whole conference these questions can also generate a kind of discussion between participants and and the speakers. So first four sessions are held in English so please ask questions in English. The last session is in Polish and of course during this last session all questions should be submitted in Polish and I also have to remind you that you have to lock in separately to every session so it doesn't happen automatically. There is a special icon on the left hand like two notes like a symbol of music. When you click this note it will take it will take you to the current session but you can also do it through agenda as you lock into the first session. There is also a chat for participants. The chat is on the right down section of your screen. There is a special icon for chat and in the chat you can have a discussion with all participants or you can separate some participants from the list so you can use chat both to have discussions and to network with other participants. And there also is another chat on the right side but this chat is just to communicate some technical issues from the technical and organization staff to our participants and viewers. Also I want to remind you that all sessions are being recorded and they will be available on the ECCTO platform and on our website and I will be let's say a meta host of each session and I will do my best to navigate you through the whole conference but I have to warn you that we connect with our speakers from which are in multiple locations and we have to rely on different internet providers so there always can be some technical issues. I can assure you that when something like this happens we are doing everything in order to resolve the problem and I just ask you for your understanding and and pensions if something like this happens. So right now I think that we can get started and I would like to invite Professor Marek Sanak vice rector proxy for research and international cooperation. Professor Sanak please. Thank you very much. It's official message from the authorities of Jagiellonian University and the medical faculty so I take my liberty of being short. Welcome. I'm very glad that you found a way to cooperate in this Norwegian funds sponsored team. I found the name of this meeting and the task group web immunization quite provocative because in my simple physicians understanding web and the internet goes hand by hand with misinformation as well and if we remember Cambridge Analytica and Facebook stories and big data mining which enabled profiling of individuals it's kind of a danger which is new to us which was presented before by some individuals and they publications only and the reach of these ideas was much near much closer so perhaps web immunization should be a counter attack against this ideas. Although immunization in language of physicians is one of the greatest success in medicine and it's valid now due to pandemic and we face the approach to immunize the society against SARS-CoV-2 which will start perhaps in next two months and as we notice from anti-vaccine movements it will be also fought by using the social media as well so I will listen to your to your presentations with some hope that you will find a solution to to take resilience against as you mentioned in the subtype tool so I wish you I welcome our honorary guests all speakers and participants and wish you interesting presentations seamless connections not interrupted by misinformation on our technical problems that's all thank you very much. Thank you professor Sanak right now I would like to invite and announce the deputy dean for research and development of the Faculty of Health Sciences professor Marcin Valigura. Thank you it's a great pleasure to welcome you at the faculty to host you at the Faculty of Health Science it's a pity that you cannot be in Krakow maybe next time since the project is quite long it's a warm green and beautiful right now in Krakow so you lost a lot half of the half of the world is looking for the immunity right now mostly against SARS-CoV-2 another half is fighting with misinformation in the internet so perhaps it's no more hot topic that you you have web immunization it's hot topic it's it's attractive it gets attention but I really believe it's extremely important democracy rely on it health sciences and medicine also rely on it anti-vaccine movement is extremely dangerous for for medicine and for society well so we we do believe that you you will work in that heart and perhaps provide us with some tools and solutions to to stop misinformation and good luck and I wish you wish you fruitful fruitful discussions today in a fruitful conference thank you thank you very much professor and the the last word goes to the head of the department of philosophy and bioethics professor Jan Hartmann yes hi everyone I'm I'm really very glad and proud that he and our department host you and that is such a good issue will be discussed here I think that dr. Gassetsky research project belongs to the most urgent fields of social studies and I'm really happy that we can participate is great thing to us myself apart from being a professor in philosophy I'm also columnist and sometimes even journalist and even for myself it is sometimes quite hard to tell truth from the false however I do not think that nowadays there are more fakes than before that's not the problem of quantity there are perhaps more clever these misinformation or fake news are perhaps more clever and more professionally fit so I get misled sometimes and sometimes I surrender and pass on to the public something which later on proves to be false very shameful but it happens to many of us now in the communist times that I still remember was much easier to identify which was called political propaganda now it is more difficult and sometimes requires some help and there is some assistance in in this field there are special services and internal devoted to this also very good sources of information much better than before much more miscellaneous much more independent than any time before so in in in a sense we are in a better position than before never I would say however people most of people most of the users are not instructed which sources of media are really trustworthy and how to check it how to get that is a jungle internet is much more a jungle than any press before this era and in my opinion this is right crucial defining orientation points in the media it should be better understandable to people that information should be complete authorized and completed with some enumeration of sources at stake this question of education there is no such an education so people are very helpless and vulnerable it can be very easily targeted by those who intentionally spread misinformation but there is also a philosophical side is great problem you are going to discuss hmm I think that in our times the truth because we are talking just about truth and false this is this is the top how to let the truth win so the truth becomes in my opinion more important in social life than it has ever been since more people decide upon information our life is so much complicated internally other people's lives that we rely on information much more than the more informed we want to be the more vulnerable question of truth comes so we need the truth and we have very large access to the truth but its access is polluted our obstacles on our way to the truth and the problem is going to grow because of new technologies coming especially apologies of so-called deep faith we sing we sing gradually into virtual reality and perhaps less care about facts most of us are less and less about what is really true so we feel sometimes even better without knowing that search for all which can comfort us we have much more acceptance for good news than bad news and we are not that much devoted that we like to think about ourselves and the truth the truth it's usually more difficult than illusion or or lies sometimes the truth is less exciting usually it's much more complicated usually it's not very clear and this is also the educated people affluent people are seduced by illusions and misleading messages because we like them press information provides us with other values than truth sometimes more important to us than the truth itself it provides us with sort of psychological consistency with some some some excitement with a filling of participation or being part of a community with a filling of identity so media now is a playground for these competing values and well-informed society has never existed has not exist now but we need it and the struggle for it is still an enlightened ideal that is ahead and I'm really glad that we our department Dr. Kuleski and you participants can well provide contribution to this crucial process so once again welcome at our department as professor very good as said next time see you in Krakow that's not that great however in spring really one of Europe the best for today as real life thank you thank you professor Hartman right now we are a little bit ahead of time so the next session starts exactly 10 past 9 so now we have a very short break and we will be back soon thank you and see you soon