January 19, FITUR 2011 Tourism Brokerage Event, Madrid.
This event is aimed at European companies engaged in the tourist sector. The event promotes commercial and technological cooperation, the marketing of new tourist products and services, business networking, and technology transfer related to systems and services to enhance competitiveness and innovation for tourism and cultural heritage.
Contact: gortegar@camaratoledo.com
January 25, Conference on the future of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP).
This conference will discuss issues on how to boost growth of European businesses and which key issues should the EU focus on. The aim of this conference is to discuss a possible successor to the CIP programme given that the CIP will come to an end in 2013.
Therefore, there is a clear need for elaborate actions and priorities to support the competitiveness of European businesses after 2013. All interested stakeholders, including representatives of business and innovation agencies, are called to express their views. About 450 participants are expected to participate in the event.
http://ec.europa.eu/cip/cip_conference/index_en.htm
February 1, Workshop on “Policies in support of high-growth innovative small and medium-sized enterprises”, Brussels.
The workshop will address the specific questions of effective policies for high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly with regard to fostering start-ups, access to finance and internationalisation.
It will also look into how policies for innovative high-growth SMEs are different to general SME policy, and whether there is a trade-off between both types of polices. Finally, a discussion will take place on the role the EU can play in fostering high-growth innovative SMEs.
Contact: stefan.lilischkis@empirica.com
February 1 – 3, LEARNTEC 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.
LEARNTEC is the leading international trade fair and convention for vocational education, learning and IT. Each year, the future of learning as well as the latest e-learning solutions for use in companies or educational institutions will be presented. More than 200 organisations showcase their solutions for professional training, e-learning and knowledge management. The Meetingpoint at LEARNTEC 2011 provides the opportunity to meet potential cooperation partners from all over Europe. It also enables participants to choose conversation partners in advance to the fair via the Meetingpoint website.
http://www.learntec.meetingpoint-europa.eu
February 10 – 11, B2FAIR SME Forum 2011, Luxembourg.
The “SME Forum” b2fair matchmaking event combines the assets of a professional trade fair with a business co-operation exchange platform and represents an important gathering in one single meeting place of the economic potential of innovative and dynamic entrepreneurs.
The targeted sectors are industrial manufacture, transport, construction technology, IT, telecommunications, energy, medicine, health and environment. In 2011, the “SME Forum” will be extended to the “Logistics Management Forum”, which will take place in parallel for the first time. The aim of this initiative is to gather private and public business leaders, institutions and organisations with an interest in the transport and logistics industry and propose opportunities to participants to have additional business meetings.
info@impetuseurope.com
www.impetuseurope.com