Policy Events
European Parliament, Brussels
Small businesses are key drivers for growth in the EU and beyond, but their potential is hindered by various obstacles. The digital agenda aims to address some of these obstacles in helping small enterprises taking full advantage of the opportunities available in the Digital single market, but it is crucial to raise further awareness of its benefits as its potential is still largely unexploited by this category of users. UEAPME (The European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) and ACCA ( the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) are therefore jointly organising a high level conference on the benefits of the Digital agenda for SMEs under the umbrella of the EU SME Week 2011. It was hosted by Paul Rübig, MEP and took place at the European Parliament in Brussels. The main goal was to showcase and disseminate best practices illustrating that the digital agenda can be used as a tool to remove administrative, cross-border trade, and access to finance barriers for SMEs and to open the debate on the remaining obstacles and the future policy options.
Trade fair
Düsseldorf
REHACARE is the leading international trade fair for rehabilitation, prevention, integration and care. With over 30 years of expertise and wide-ranging experience of the market, this fair is an ideal platform for anyone with disabilities, care requirements or chronic conditions as well as for the elderly. The quality and diversity of REHACARE are reflected in numerous “theme parks”, info events, industry representatoves, service providers, paying authorities and non-profit exhibitors. In 2010, over 800 exhibitors from 29 countries provided 52,500 professionals and affected persons with a comprehensive overview of the aids and services available to make their daily lives easier.
Workshop
Limerick
The MultilingualWeb project is looking at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the Web multilingually. Coordinated by the W3C, the project aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards and identify gaps. This third workshop in Limerick, Ireland, is hosted by the University of Limerick. The workshop is co-located with the 16th Annual LRC Conference, which starts after the MultilingualWeb workshop finishes at lunchtime on the 22 September. Each main session on the first day contains a series of 15 minute talks followed by some time for questions and answers. On the second day, the workshop will last for the morning only. The morning of the second day will be dedicated to an Open Space discussion forum, where participants can discuss the themes of the workshop in breakout sessions. This will be organized by TAUS. All attendees participate in all sessions.
URL: http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/limerick-program
Conference
Troyes
ESREL 2011 conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific works covering theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. ESREL 2011 will also be an opportunity for researchers and practitioners, academics and engineers to meet, exchange ideas and gain insight from each other.
Conference
Budapest
META-FORUM 2011 will feature both interactive and informative sessions focusing on multilingualism, the challenges and opportunities presented by the multilingual information society and how innovative Language Technologies are key in developing solutions to these challenges. The event is an activity organized by the META project and the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
