The conference, as a major knowledge consolidation initiative, is structured around three key themes and under each of these a number of session topics are listed. We would like to invite proposals (panels, roundtables, sessions, presentations, etc.) that address these topics: - Key Theme 1:...

"[The conference] will foster interdisciplinary discussions around medicine, literature and the digital humanities. The goal is to bring together IT experts, physicians and literary scholars in order to work on the concrete elaboration of a digital database in the field of medicine and...

The payments industry is facing challenges from all sides: competition and pricing pressures; new regulations; continuing macroeconomic uncertainty; and changing customer demands. Banks need to be flexible and agile to take advantage of the huge potential gains available from the payments...

The emerging ‘advanced payments’ sector includes the convergence of mobile, Internet and tablet payments. These represent exciting and lucrative new revenue channels. Industry leaders have already started to grasp this opportunity and are focusing on emerging mobile and NFC innovation and...

Recent events have underlined the importance of cash as a refuge, as cash in circulation peaked at the height of the financial crisis. Since then, demand has remained strong and there has been no sign of repatriation of those banknotes. At the same time, the infrastructure of the cash cycle is...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

The conference has traditionally focused on issues of postal sector regulation (in particular, universal service). The development of electronic means of communication and mobility affects the core business of the postal sector. To account for new synergies with media markets, advertising and...

The goal of the seminar is twofold. - First, from an academic point of view, it will gather the european scientific community working on the geography of innovation. - Second, from a more applied perspective, the seminar intends to bring together researchers, data producers and public actors in...