June 21, On-the-Job Training Session for SMEs' environmental compliance, Vienna.
This workshop aims to exchange best practices regarding services for SMEs to improve their environmental performance. The project promotes sustainability in small and large businesses in various sectors through efficient and economic management practices. Businesses will receive tailored consultancy to help them implement environmental projects applicable to five programmes: Ecobonus, Ecoprofit, the EcoQuality Label for tourism, ISO 14001 and EMAS.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/toolkits/training2010_en.htm
June 21 - 23, Society for Risk Analysis - Europe Annual Meeting, London.
This meeting will aim to facilitate interaction among all actors in the field of risk: academics from across the disciplines, policy makers, the private sector, non-governmental organisations and other interest groups. The special theme of the conference will be Risk, Governance And Accountability. This theme highlights the increasing centrality of risk analysis to decision-making in a wide range of policy and organisational contexts and the increasing demands by the public for decision makers to account for outcomes.
The event is also an opportunity for risk analysts to come together to discuss issues, problems, goals and future research questions. New areas for risk analysis are emerging and new disciplines are contributing to the ongoing debate about risk analysis and management.
Contact: SRAE@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.sraeurope.org/
June 23 - 25, Empowering the pan-European community in a competitive global environment, Trento, Italy.
This event will feature keynote presentations addressing current challenges in technology and entrepreneurial innovation in Europe. The discussion will concern the importance for Europe's industry, academic, private investment, research, government and scientific sectors to work collaboratively. This will aid in increasing the level of innovation required to successfully compete globally.
It will also examine the question of how best to unlock Europe's true potential with the European Alliance for Innovation serving as a conduit to information and communication technology innovation through strategic and grassroots initiatives. The conference will finish with special interest group working sessions centring on science for innovation, business and technology.
Contact: secretariat-efi2010@create-net.org
http://efi.european-alliance.eu/
June 25, Fostering the competitiveness of European non-space SMEs through the use of satellite services, Rome.
This event will gather representatives of user-SME associations, of the space community, as well as European and national policy makers, with the objective of consolidating political support for an increased access of SMEs to satellite information and services, in order to stimulate SME competitiveness in sectors such as transport, building, utilities, energy, and others. In particular, the event aims to create political consensus on a roadmap of concrete actions to enable SMEs from sectors different from space to use satellite information and service, and thus profit from European investments in space.
http://www.eurisy.org/
June 30 - July 1, 8th European Business Summit, Brussels.
The European Business Summit is Europe's key platform for business leaders and decision makers to debate how to build a more competitive and sustainable European Union. Annually, the EBS attracts 2500 participants including CEOs & top executives, prime ministers, ministers, European commissioners and media. This year's summit will focus on topics such as economic recovery, financial regulation, trade for growth, the place of Europe in the world, new skills for new jobs, climate change and energy, innovation, clean-tech, Europe's digital agenda and the future shape of the EU's socio-economic model.
Registration: registration@ebsummit.eu
http://www.ebsummit.org/
July 1, European research and business speed-dating, Turin.
This brokerage event will aim to facilitate companies, research centres and universities to meet potential partners for research projects, cooperation agreements and technology transfer. This event is organised in the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network, the largest European network of contact points providing information and advice on EU matters to improve innovation and competitiveness of European companies and in particular of small and medium enterprises.
Meetings can be scheduled in the areas of health, food, agriculture, biotechnologies, information communication technologies, transport, energy and environment, nanotechnologies, production technologies, socio-economic sciences and space and security.
Contact: innovazione@pie.camcom.it
www.esof2010.org/speeddating/
July 1, Workshop on Societal Security R+D, Brussels.
The focus of this workshop will be to broadly look at the societal dimension of security research, and at how to mainstream these aspects into security research activities. Some 50 invited experts will meet to discuss different aspects of societal security and how well on-going research activities in societal security are matching the needs, lessons learnt until now, and identified gaps. Discussions on how to address the gaps and research needs in societal security R&D in the future (both in short and longer term) in these areas will be held during the workshop.
Contact: entr-security-research@ec.europa.eu
http://conferences.cs.unicam.it/metteg10/
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