The theme for the EfS 2013 is "Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet" which is dedicated to debating the challenges posed by the increasing concentration of the world's population in cities. Up for discussion are topics grouped under four main categories: Smart Cities,...

The scope of the Conference covers the following areas: - Energy System Analysis - Economic Growth and Sustainability - Technological Change and the Environment - Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystems - Energy Markets - Markets and Drivers of Renewable Energy - Energy Modelling - Energy...

Topics: - The impact of demographics in higher education networks - Higher education and regional development - Public policies and higher education networks - Efficiency vs equity of higher education networks and institutions - Financing higher education - Higher education networks and the job...

The Workshop will provide an international forum to discuss theoretical and empirical contributions with the purpose of increasing the common knowledge on how skills and competences affect individual and organisational performance.

The three goals of the meeting, convened under an overarching theme Confronting Challenges in Defining a Collaborative Future are to examine business opportunities in the region and define strategies to compete with the influence of the Asian economies and in the wake of global economic...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Socio-economic networks - Network generation mechanisms in socio-economic models - Evolutionary networks - Complex systems and emergent networks - Tools for network dynamics - Games on Networks

Topics: Climate change and energy industry; Clean energy technologies; Design of energy markets; Distributed generation issues; Effective CO2 removal; Electricity prices and uncertainties; Energy and development; Energy efficiency challenges; Energy policy under Kyoto and post-Kyoto...