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Resilient cities 2012

Fecha:
12/05/2012 - 09:00 - 16/05/2012 - 14:00

Lugar:
Bonn (Germany)

2012 is already looming ahead, and so are the pressing challenges linked to urban adaptation to climate change.

Resilience Cities 2012, 3rd Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation is already on its way to provide you with the keys to smarter infrastructure, better urban planning and state-of-the-art tools that will improve the future of cities.
Week of Innovation Regions of Europe 2012

Fecha:
04/06/2012 - 12:08 - 05/06/2012 - 12:08

Lugar:
Warsaw, Poland

The aim of the WIRE2012 conference is to present both main challenges and barriers concerning the development of innovation in regions and to elaborate recommendations for European and regional innovation policy-makers. The issue to be tackled is how to implement the Innovation Union at the Regional level
ICT - Driving the City of tomorrow?”

Fecha:
04/06/2012 - 14:59 - 06/06/2012 - 14:59

Lugar:
Vienna, Austria

Major Cities of Europe (MCE) - Conference 2012

Large, medium and small cities - all face the same challenges: Budgets are tight, citizens want to participate in decision-making processes, they demand better services and new jobs. Local businesses have been hit by the economic crisis and identify growth potential in the public sector.

How can cities respond to these challenges with the support of their IT departments?

The 2012 MCE Conference focuses on this question and discusses the topic against the backdrop of innovative information and communication technologies.

The slogan of the MCE Conference is "IT - Driving the City of Tomorrow?"

Important topics of the conference are: open government, open data, social networks, cloud computing and smart cities. CIOs and IT managers from Austrian and European cities exchange experiences and discuss lessons learned in interactive workshops.

Two evening events provide the participants with international networking opportunities in a relaxed atmosphere.
European Data Forum 2012

Fecha:
06/06/2012 - 16:19 - 07/06/2012 - 16:19

Lugar:
Copenhagen - Denmark

The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). It is a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus for the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving innovation and competition in many data-driven economic sectors. The range of topics discussed at the European Data Forum ranges from novel data-driven business models (e.g. data clearing houses), and technological innovations (e.g. Linked Data Web) to societal aspects (e.g. open governmental data as well as data privacy and security).

EDF is based on a cross-project cooperation of LATC (Linked Open Data Around-the-Clock), LOD2, IKS, and PlanetData. It is supported by the European Commission and brought to you by STI International.
Workshops: Indicators of local transition to low-carbon economy

Fecha:
11/06/2012 - 08:00 - 12/06/2012 - 14:00

Lugar:
11th June 2012 – Ghent, Belgium / 12th June 2012 – Belval, Luxemburg

Achieving greener growth will involve seizing opportunities to develop new green industries, jobs and technologies, as well as managing the transition for greening the more traditional sectors and the associated employment and distributional effects. It will require adopting new technologies, developing new products and supporting new patterns of demand from households, companies as well as governments.
Materials for Hydrogen Storage - Future Perspectives?

Fecha:
14/06/2012 (All day) - 18/06/2012 (All day)

Lugar:
Hurtigruten (Norway)

The primary objective of the conference is to present current status, and future trends and possibilities for hydrogen storage in solid compounds

Topics:

Status, main challenges and future perspectives to obtain working hydrogen storage materials based on light-weight elements; Status, challenges and future possibilities with nanoporous materials; Possible short-term applications, i.e. based on bcc-alloys or Mg-based compounds
III Congreso internacional sobre patrimonio y desarrollo sostenible

Fecha:
19/06/2012 - 17:02

Lugar:
Oporto (Portugal)
Quantum interaction 2012

Fecha:
26/06/2012 - 09:50 - 29/06/2012 - 08:50

Lugar:
Paris

The international quantum interaction (QI) symposium series provides a unique cross-disciplinary forum for researchers. Quantum Interaction (QI) is an emerging field which is applying quantum theory (QT) to domains such as economics, organisations and social interaction, psychology, artificial intelligence, human language, cognition, information retrieval, biology, political science. The application areas addressed typically operate at a macroscopic scale and could not be considered quantum in a quantum mechanical sense, they may share many key properties with quantum systems including:

Non-commutativity of measurement, Indeterminacy, Non-separability, Contextuality, Harmonic oscillations.
BC3/ UPV-EHU Summer School 2012 - Some dimensions of climate change: international agreements, carbon finance and ecosystem based approaches

Fecha:
09/07/2012 - 09:00 - 11/07/2012 - 14:00

Lugar:
Palacio Miramar (Donostia-San Sebastian)

The objective of the summer school is to offer an updated and recent view of the ongoing trends in Climate Change research in an annual basis. The school is designed to approach the main scientific topics from a multidisciplinary approach, depending on the main trends on climate change issues and allowing for an integrated view and understanding of the problem. Different editions of the school might take different approaches to study Climate Change.
Precaution and proportionality in the management of global environmental change.

Fecha:
08/11/2012 - 09:51

Prof. Charles Perrings (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University)

ABSTRACT: The precautionary principle is a mandate to tread cautiously when managing novel threats to the environment or human health. A major obstacle when applying the principle at the international level is disagreement about how precautionary efforts should be constrained to ensure that policy costs are proportional to the attained level of protection. Proportionality is an unresolved question when preliminary evidence precludes decision-makers from assigning probabilities over future events. The paper suggests practical analytical tools for communicating ex ante trade-offs when probabilities are unavailable. The tools could be used to facilitate discussion and compromise when implementing precautionary decisions in international settings where cooperation is important. The approach is demonstrated in an application to climate policy that uses the integrated assessment model DICE (Nordhaus 2008). The paper also situates the task of precautionary decision-making within the broader context of implementing a precautionary response at the international level.

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