Forthcoming EU-related events

June 10-11, Tourism Industry: Employment and Labour Market Challenges

The aim of the conference is to discuss, at European level, new challenges and problems currently facing the sector of tourism.

As qualified labour is a vital link in the process of offering good quality services, member states have to cope with a lack of qualified workforce and the fact that few young people want to work in the service sector.

The conference will provide a forum for an exchange of views and experiences in the area of the labour market and employment in tourism in the EU.

The event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic.

www.eu2009.cz/event/1/827/

June 10-12, ICT Mobile Summit 2009

The event will address the challenges of building the future internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures.

The impact of such future networks on the underlying Internet infrastructure will continue to be emphasised.

Technology enabling services and applications for billions of users involving trillions of interconnected potentially mobile devices will be addressed at the event.

The event will be held in Santander, Spain.

www.ict-mobilesummit.eu/2009/

June 17-19, DigiBiz 2009 conference

This will cover areas such as new (digital) business models, new forms of business strategy evaluations and the internet and socio-economic impacts. The event intends to provide an international forum for industry and academic representatives involved with ICT, software technologies, organisational studies and socio-technological enablers for business.

The event will take place in London, UK.

www.digibiz.org/

June 18-20, Innovation Days 2009

Innovation Days is organised by the Portuguese Innovation Agency, AdI (Agência de Inovacão). It aims to promote the results of successful market-oriented research and development projects such as Solar Energy Technologies. Besides it offers a wide range of international conferences related to the technology innovation.

It also includes a dedicated exhibition of successful project results from Eureka, the European support network for industrial innovation, and the Eureka Innovation Days Awards ceremony, attended by innovation ministers and other high-level guests from across Europe. It will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

http://innovationdays.eu/

June 21, ISPIM 2009 Conference: The Future of Innovation

This conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The format will include facilitated theme sessions, interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, it will provide networking opportunities. The conference will include contributions from academics, consultants and managers on numerous topics including commercialising and financing innovation, methods and tools for innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship and numerous others. The event will take place in Vienna, Austria.

http://conference.ispim.org/

June 22-24, European Social Services Conference

This workshop will aim to investigate the reasons for the increase in the number of young people receiving incapacity/disability benefits in EU countries. Delegates shall seek to identify what are the most effective measures for activation to employment, including the role of social, health and employment services, as well as educational systems and employers. The discussion shall in turn consider how local social services can contribute to prevention as well as management of long-term illness or disability among young people, and their role in motivating people to take up and retain employment. The event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic.

www.esn-eu.org/

June 22-25, Conference on Transport, Atmosphere And Climate

The scope of the conference covers all aspects of the impact of different modes of transport (e.g. aviation, road transport, shipping) on atmospheric chemistry, micro-physics, radiation and climate. More specifically, talks will address some of the following topics: engine emissions (gaseous and particulate); emission scenarios and emission data bases for transport and near-field and plume processes, effective emissions. The event will be held in Aachen, Germany.

www.pa.op.dlr.de/tac/

June 25, Conference On Science And Technology In Times Of Crisis

The conference will be dedicated to know how the science and technology policy can help to recover from a recession and to address the global systemic crises of our time (energy, environment, water, food supply).

In addition, it will also cover issues such as the transition toward the knowledge-based economy, the role of innovation diffusion and smart specialisation and the governance and reforms in research and development funding in the context of a larger and more heterogeneous EU.

The conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium.

http://ec.europa.eu/invest-in-research/monitoring/knowledge_en.htm

July 7-10, Conference on Energy for a Clean Environment

The conference is intended to promote integrated energy solutions for a better environment and contribute to a sustainable energy economy.

At the same time, it offers a platform to discuss all matters related to energy technologies for a clean environment, involving industrialists from end-users to equipment manufacturers, developers of control equipment, sensor developers and vendors, software houses, research institutes, universities, policy makers, public administration and environmentalists.

It also promotes the interchange of ideas between the European energy sector and other countries.

The event will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

http://carnot.ist.utl.pt/~cleanair/

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