Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with an IIASA senior scientist mentor on a project...

What are those at the forefront of Ecocity thought, practice, policy and implementation saying about the issues that are important to you? Come join us to take part in dialogue and action to shape the future of urban areas – where most of the world’s people now live – into...

The main theme of the meeting will be “Consumer Choice and Technology”. The aim is to examine the interaction of technology and consumer behaviour in a historical perspective; especially to focus on factors steering consumption and how consumers by their choices have influenced in...

Topics: Innovation; Organizational Creatology; Total Innovation Management; E-Innovation; Marketing Management; Human Resource Management; Financial/Business Management; Production and Operations Management; Trade Practices; Economic Issues; Legal Education; Industrial Development...

More than ever before, the present economic and environmental conditions have prompted businesses and institutions to promote a sustainable and balanced economic development. Sustainability and inclusive growth considerations have assumed even greater significance due to the need to balance...

We invite qualified Ph.D, LLM and SJD students who have an interdisciplinary focus and are working on research or dissertations related to humanitarian and human rights law, migration studies, economics and labor migration, environmental studies, natural disasters, human security and political...

The 6th ICEF aims to explore the current and potential future extent and nature of interdisciplinary research and management practice across the environmental domain. Eighty speakers, from many countries have agreed to give presentations, and abstracts from up to 370 registered participants will...

The 3rd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE 2011) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Malaysia since 2009. This conference focuses on the following areas: - Applied Semantic Technology - Knowledge Engineering - Semantic based...

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. This school is designed to approach the main scientific topic from a multidisciplinary approach, depending on the main trends of Climate Change issues...

MSKE 2011 will have the following objectives: - To analyze the economy of the 21st century as a knowledge based economy (KBE) led by the services sector. - To understand how to improve the management of services in the KBE. - To analyze the Service driven Knowledge Economy from a...