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

Conference Theme: Women's Work and Eeducation in the Global Economy

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...

The overall purpose of the High-Level Conference is to address food security issues in the face of soaring food prices and the new challenges of climate change and energy security. The objective is to assist countries and the international community in devising sustainable solutions to the food...