08.04.2008
Cities of the future - Brussels, 8-10 April 2008
The Forum on "Cities of the Future" is organised by the Committee of the Regions in cooperation with the European Commission Directorates General for Energy and Transport (TREN) and for Enterprise and Industry (ENTR) and EUROCITIES. The Forum intends...read more

07.04.2008
European cities integrating migrants: from Amsterdam to Zagreb - Brussels, 7 April 2008
How best to implement migration and housing policies at the local level? This will be one of the main questions of the conference organised by the CLIP - the European network of cities for local integration policies for migrants - at the Committee of...read more

06.04.2008
A Suburban World? Global Decentralisation and the New Metropolis – Reston (USA), 6-8 April 2008
As urban form changes, new research and policy have to be crafted to meet the challenges of sprawl, congestion and affordable housing. This conference will take a look at the new metropolis in the context of global decentralisation.read more

03.04.2008
European Conference on Bicycle Transport & Networking - Dresden, 3-4 April 2008
The 'Bicycle Transport & Networking' conference aims to enhance cooperation and knowledge transfer between European municipalities concerning the use of bicycles in cities. The event will address practical questions and examples of bicycle promotion ...read more

02.04.2008
HSA Conference 2008: Housing & Cohesion - York, 2-4 April 2008
Public policy has become increasingly convinced that differences within society are promoting division and undermining cohesion. A particular concern is the perceived segregation of certain groups into particular neighbourhoods, which is believed to ...read more

02.04.2008
Monitoring the Urban Dimension in EU Cohesion Policy: Spanish and Portuguese perspectives - Madrid, 2-3 April 2008
Quartiers en Crise-European Regenerations Areas Network (QeC-ERAN) a leading EU wide network focusing on urban development in partnership with CIREM, a Spanish network working on Urban Regeneration issues, are organising a conference which will focus...read more

26.03.2008
Forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty – Athens, 26-28 March 2008
The World Alliance of Cities against Poverty (WACAP) unites cities that have decided to take a public stand and mobilise all sectors of society, from individuals to governments, to do everything in their power to eliminate poverty both at home and ab...read more

19.03.2008
Masterclass Skills & Capacity Building - Brussels, 19-20 March 2008
ASC, Nicis Institute and EUKN organise a two-day master course for urban professionals involved in the development or implementation of urban policies and projects. The course will take place in Brussels from 19th to 20th March 2008 and will enable p...read more

18.03.2008
The UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2008 - Belfast, 18-20 March 2008
From 18-20 March 2008 the annual Planning Research Conference will be held for the first time in Northern Ireland, hosted by the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE), Queen’s University, Belfast. Like previous Planning Resea...read more

17.03.2008
5th Warwick Healthy Housing Conference - Coventry, 17-19 March 2008
The 5th Warwick conference on health and housing, will be an opportunity to review recent developments both in the evidence for the relationship between the housing environment and health, and in the policies and practices directed at improving healt...read more

17.03.2008
International Conference on Alternative Futures & Popular Protest - Manchester, 17 - 19 March 2008
The aim of this annual conference organised by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their activists and supporters and contribute to shaping their fate. Reflectin...read more

14.03.2008
Noise in the city - Amsterdam, 14 March 2008
Nowadays, almost 25% of the European citizens are affected by noise caused by various sources like traffic, railways, airports, enterprises or other sorts of noise sources like neighbour noise and construction noise. Most of these people - approximat...read more

26.02.2008
Cityscape - London, 26-28 February 2008
On 26 - 28 February 2008, 'Cityscape', the UK’s biggest annual event dedicated to sustainable urban design and the public realm will take place. It will be organised at London’s Earls Court featuring an ambitious indoor urban design installation.read more

21.02.2008
Skills for Europe's future - Agora Thessaloniki XXVII - Thessaloniki, 21-22 February 2008
Skillsnet, Cedefop´s (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) network on early identification of skill needs, will present and discuss its findings at the Agora conference “Skills for Europe’s future”, to be held at the Cedefop co...read more

13.02.2008
World Conference on the Development of Cities, Porto Alegre, 13-16 February 2008
The World Conference on the Development of Cities that will take place in Porto Alegre in February 2008 has the main purpose of gathering the diversity of democratic innovation and initiatives for the social change, which have been emerging in the la...read more

13.02.2008
IT-TRANS: IT solutions for public transport - Karlsruhe, 13-15 February 2008
The fact that by 2010 more than 50% of the world’s population will live or work in urban areas very clearly underlines the necessity for intelligent and attractive public transport systems. There are many benefits of IT in public transport: improved ...read more

06.02.2008
2nd Young Academics Meeting: Planning, policies and institutions for integration - St.Petersburg, 6-8 February 2008
The 2nd Young Academics Meeting – ‘Looking Beyond One’s Nose: Planning, Policies and Institutions for Integration’ – aims to gather young researchers and students from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. It also wants to discuss and e...read more

18.01.2008
MediaCity Conference 2008 – Weimar, 18-19 January 2008
The conference “MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters” will investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media. It will take the position that new med...read more

17.01.2008
Manufacturing Cities in the Knowledge-Based Economy - Dortmund, 17-18 January 2008
The role of manufacturing in European cities has changed significantly in the past few decades. Cities now often increasingly focus on industries such as ICT, biotechnology, high-tech business and creative industries. However, manufacturing industrie...read more

17.01.2008
SILENCE Seminar: Reducing railway noise in urban areas - Paris, 17 January 2008
Although noise limits have become increasingly stringent over the years, no corresponding reduction in noise levels in urban areas has been observed. Therefore, European noise policy has been revised to focus on noise perception, to avoid the harmful...read more