The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.

The principal purpose of these meetings, articulated around some workshops, is to give a range of examples and analysis to face the question of the link between finance and ethics. In fact, nowadays, is really important to strengthen the financial operators’ judgment in order to make their...

The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

Developments in the way in which organizations are esigned, from the rational vision of scientific management to open systems, has slowly moved from the organizations's centr to its environment. This has put emphasis on inter-organizational level.

Topics: Muslims in Europe Europeans in the Islamic world, 13th to 18th centuries European policies and rivalries for economic supremacy in the Islamic World and the islamic reactions (Africa and the Middle East). Nature and volume of the commercial relationship between Europe and islamic...

Die Tagung zeigt am ersten Tag mögliche Entwicklungsmuster für die alpine Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Der zweite Tag öffnet den Blickwinkel von der Primärproduktion auf das ganze System „alpines Tal“. Ausgehend von der klassischen regionalwirtschaftlichen Förderung werden neue Chancen...