Conference on Climate Change, 12-14 November, Paris

Conference on Climate Change, 12-14 November, Paris

The event will comprise the usual series of lectures, discussions, and presentations of participants’ papers. The working language will be English. Please note that all costs are covered for Europaeum graduates, though participants must cover their own travel costs. The workshop is open to all graduates, notably from: Law, Economics, Politics, History, Geography, International Relations, and other relevant disciplines. To apply, please contact the Europaeum office via e-mail with letter of application, a short CV (max. 2 pages), and a support letter from your supervising professor to the Europaeum Office as soon as possible. Please download the event Poster for more information.

The Enterprise Europe Network London is organising an “Innovation Management Course” to be held in London (United Kingdom), on 15th-16th November 2010.

The course aims to provide an outline of current innovation thinking and tailored advice and tools that are appropriate for SMEs. It will include presentations and opportunities to discuss current theories and share best practices through workshops and breakout sessions. It is designed for technology-based companies, universities and research organisations in London.

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EuroCenter, The Danish Agency of Science and Innovation, is organising the course “How to Negotiate and Administer FP7”, to be held in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 18th November 2010.

The aim of this one-day course is to train research managers and administrators how to negotiate and administer 7th Framework Programme Grant Agreements. The main topics of the Course are: from the proposal to the final payment; the consortium; how to work with the European Commission; negotiating the grant agreement; model grant agreement; contractual deadlines in FP7 projects; claims in FP7; the financial audit.

The course will be held in English.

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Sophia Aniopolis (France), 18th-19th November 2010: 6th edition of Competitiveness Cluster Forum

The Foundation Sophia Antiopolis, with co-financing of the European Commission, is organising the “6th edition of Competitiveness Cluster Forum - International Cooperation and Funding Devices” to be held in Sophia Antiopolis (France) on 18th-19th November 2010.

The Forum is a major international event on industrial innovation and support for young innovative companies. This year’s edition will focus on "International Cooperation and Financing Strategies”. The first day will focus on the internationalisation of clusters and competitiveness clusters in Europe and initial funding. Its first session will be dedicated to international cooperation (best practices of development strategies), while the second will concentrate on public/private funding. The second day will focus on "European Initiatives for the Internationalisation of Clusters".

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The theme for the 2010 Classics Colloquium will be Death and Afterlife, encompassing a range of subjects and areas of research: linguistics, literature, culture, religion, philosophy, archaeology, art history etc. Classics graduate scholars from half our Europaeum member universities are already set to take part at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. But we are still actively seeking colleagues from Helsinki, and our Classics link partners Paris IV and Geneva University, plus additional participants from Prague and Oxford.  Lectures will be delivered by scholars from Krakow, Leiden and Madrid. A programme will be posted shortly. Click here for event details.

The European Commission and the European Patent Office are organising a conference on “Tensions between IPR and the ICT standardisation process: reasons and remedies” to be held in Brussels (Belgium), on 22nd November 2010.

The conference’s objective is to find policy solutions for the current tensions between the intellectual property rights (IPR) and the information communication technologies (ICT) standardisation processes. Specifically, the following topics will be discussed: Who needs standards-related patent registers and how should they look? Is there a need to improve the quality of standards-related patents and how can we do it? How should ex-ante commitments of licensing terms be drafted? How can we ensure certainty on the availability and continuity of essential IP rights for licensing? What is the best relationship between standards and open source software and freely available technologies?

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The Enterprise Europe Network B2Europe West Poland is organising a brokerage event “Transnational Technology Transfer Day POLEKO 2010” to be held in Poznań (Poland), on 24th November 2010.

The event will take place in the framework of the International Trade Fair of Environmental Protection POLEKO 2010. It is a unique platform for contractors from Eastern and Western Europe to meet.

The exposition will be divided this year into the following sections: water/sewage; waste/soil; recycling; air; climate; energy; noise and vibration; hazard detection and protein equipment; municipal and power building industry.

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Brussels (Belgium), 2nd-3rd December 2010: 4th Pan-European Intellectual Property Summit

The Premier Cercle, Wall Street Journal Europe, Managing Intellectual Property and World IP Review, with the sponsorship of the European Commission and the European Patent Office, are organising the “4th Pan-European Intellectual Property Summit” to be held in Brussels (Belgium) on 2nd-3rd December 2010.

The Summit will be devoted to the future of the European Court of Justice, the European Union patent, the Community trade marks, Digital Agenda, anti-counterfeiting and IP enforcement within and outside the scope of the new Europe 2020 strategy.

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The Academy of European Law (ERA) is organising a “Conference on European Intellectual Property Law 2010” to be held in Trier (Germany) on 2nd and 3rd December 2010.

The objective of this conference is to address various legal aspects of the most recent developments in both jurisprudence and legislation in the field of EU industrial property law. In the field of design, the first cases adopted by the EU Courts and the most relevant decisions from the OHIM Boards of Appeal will be given special attention.

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The first Euro-Mediterranean Forum for Young Researchers is organised by the Chios Institute for Mediterranean Affairs in Istanbul on 13-15 April 2011. This Forum will provide an open platform for exchanges and debates among postgraduate and doctoral students as well as young professionals engaged in research activities throughout the Mediterranean region.
During the Forum, selected participants will have the opportunity to:

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  present their current research;
  
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  receive feedback and improve their drafts;
  
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  exchange and socialise with peers;
  
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  meet representatives from leading scientific journals;
  
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  attend three keynote lectures by distinguished academics.
  

The Second Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies will take place from 1 to 3 December 2010 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

A workshop on 'practical aspects of service-oriented computing governance' will take place in Ayia Napa, Cyprus from 1 to 3 December 2010.

The First Workshop on Bio-inspired Models and Technologies for an Ambient Information Society will take place in Boston, US from 1 to 3 December 2010.

The First International Workshop on Services, Energy and Ecosystem will take place on 7 December 2010 in San Francisco, US.

The Fifth European Space Agency (ESA) Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies will be held from 8 to 10 December 2010 in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

'Combinatorics and analysis in spatial probability', Eindhoven, the Netherlands

A conference on 'combinatorics and analysis in spatial probability' will be held from 12 to 16 December 2010 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The European Science Foundation (ESF) - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) research conference on extreme environmental events will take place from 13 to 17 December 2010 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The Fifth International Workshop on Personalisation for eHealth will be held in Casablanca, Morocco from 13 December 2010.

The 2nd International IEEE Games Innovation Conference 2010 will be held on 21 to 24 December in Hong Kong.

Following an intensive consultation with experts around the world to prepare a ‘vision 2030’ for scientific Data e-Infrastructures, the High-Level Group on Scientific Data published a report on “Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data”.