December 10-11, Conference on Cohesion Policy and Territorial Development: Make Use of the Territorial Potential, Sweden
The purpose of the conference is to spread knowledge about and experience of conditions for regional growth.
Discussions will be held about how structural funds and sectoral policy can contribute to the optimal use of these conditions and how to respond to future territorial challenges, such as climate and demographic change.
www.se2009.eu/en/meetings_news/2009/12/10/a_conference_on_cohesion_policy_and_territorial_development_make_use_of_the_territorial_potential
December 17, Data Access under the EC-ESA Delegation Agreement
The meeting intends to inform about the principles governing the access to GMES Earth Observation Data from third party missions for the GMES users during the 2011-2013 period.
It also provides a preliminary list of data sets that will be made available during this period.
In addition, it provides a forum for collecting user feedback on the approach taken and the data sets offered, especially from the GMES services and European value-adding and service industry.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3842
January 13-14, Conference on the Challenges of Education and Innovation, Berlin
The conference will provide a special forum for eligible researchers to build contacts with their peers from across Europe. The conference will concentrate on the challenges of education and innovation in the Central and Eastern European countries. The focus will mainly be on innovation processes in agriculture linked to the spread of knowledge in rural areas.
www.eubusiness.com/topics/research/mace.09
January 20 - 22, 5th ETSI Security Workshop
The annual European Telecommunications Standards Institute Security Workshop will bring together international standards developing organisations and security experts to discuss recent developments, share knowledge, identify gaps and coordinate on future actions and work areas.
The workshop will include overviews of the work being done in the area of security across standards and technical bodies, along with presentations from major organisations involved in security initiatives.
This annual event will take place in ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, from January 20-22, 2010.
www.etsi.org/SECURITYWORKSHOP
January 25-28, Interconnection World Forum, London
Some of the key issues that will be addressed over the course of the four days include: how are different incumbent operators around the global enabling access to their infrastructure; what is the best regulatory framework for NGN and IP interconnection; how is the European Commission's recommendation regarding MTRs impacting operator revenue and investment; what settlement agreements are being used around the globe in order to increase interconnection traffic.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Members/iir/interconnection-world-forum
www.impetuseurope.com