Meetings

25.11.2008
2008 Polis Conference - Barcelona, 25-26 November 2008
Moving towards sustainable local mobility is widely acknowledged as being one of the most important challenges of the near future to meet the European objectives of tackling congestion and climate change. Experience has shown that progress in moving ...read more

25.11.2008
Promoting innovation and the knowledge economy: innovative ICT and e-government practice - Derry, 25 November 2008
The City of Derry in Northern Ireland will play host to a major European conference on innovative ICT and E-Government Practice on 25 November 2008. This event will mark the launch of one of the selected "fast track" networks under the European Commi...read more

26.11.2008
EUROCITIES Conference 2008: building active cities - The Hague, 26-29 November 2008
The theme of this year's EUROCITIES Annual Conference, hosted by The Hague, is "Building Active Cities - modern citizenship and integrated governance". This theme is closely linked to the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities, which was adop...read more

30.11.2008
URBACT Annual Conference - Montpellier, 30 November - 2 December 2008
The Annual Conference 2008 of the URBACT European programme will be held in Montpellier, France. The annual event will gather together all URBACT partners. It will be the occasion to assess and discuss cities’ progress in responding to the challenges...read more

01.12.2008
CECODHAS Observatory Colloquium Conference: Urban Change in Europe: The Place of Social Housing in Integrated Policies - London, 1 December 2008
This colloquium is the third in a series addressing the future challenges of social housing across the EU. The event will discuss a number of crucial issues relating to the role of social housing in integrated urban policiesleading to sustainable com...read more

02.12.2008
Forum des Villes - Montpellier, 2-3 December 2008
On the occasion of its presidency of the European Union, France has decided to stress the importance of “sustainability and solidarity in our cities”. Following the meeting of the ministers responsible for housing, cohesion and urban development, whi...read more

04.12.2008
Knowledge in small and medium-sized towns - Faro, 4-5 December 2008
The conference, organised by the Centro de Investigação Sobre o Espaço (CIEO), focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and prom...read more

09.12.2008
Designing the Parks part II: the present and future of park planning and design - San Francisco, 9-11 December 2008
Today’s designers, planners, and managers of public parks face an array of competing issues and opportunities, yet they lack integrated guidance to address these challenges effectively and creatively. Designing the Parks Part I, (Charlottesville, May...read more

20.01.2009
Global City 2009, Abu Dhabi 20-21 January 2009
Abu Dhabi's emphasis on sustainable urban development and its growing status as a global hub for business and tourism will receive a major thrust early next year when the world's top urban planners, decision-makers, mayors and international media wil...read more

26.01.2009
AGS Annual Meeting 2009: Urban Futures, the Challenge of Sustainability - Zurich 26-29 January 2009
Today, around 50% of the present world population – composed of about one billion people in the developed world and 5.5 billion in the developing world – lives in urban areas. And by 2050 – when the population will have grown to around nine billion –...read more

09.02.2009
3rd European Renewable Energy Policy Conference 2009 - Brussels, 9-11 February 2009
After the great success of the 2007 edition of the European Renewable Energy Policy Conference, the 3rd European Renewable Energy Policy Conference 2009 will take place at the Flagey Convention Center in Brussels on the 9th and 11th February 2009, an...read more

02.03.2009
Transforming the Metropolis: Creating Sustainable and Humane Cities - Houston, 2-4 March 2009
For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. At this defining moment in the history of cities, the De Lange Conference will ask many of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners of innovative ...read more

04.03.2009
Annual Meeting Urban Affairs Association - Contesting and Sustaining the City: Neighbourhood, Region, or World - Chicago 4-9 March 2009
Policymakers, planners and scholars debate the question of how we should govern our cities. If we should plan our cities. What place should aesthetic design hold in the process? Whom should we be building our cities for? And with whom should we be ma...read more

08.03.2009
World Congress of the Renewable City 2009 - Sydney, 8-11 March 2009
WCRC 2009 is an international congress for all those in the business of fighting climate change and dramatically lowering dependence on non-renewable resources: influential industry leaders, professionals, researchers and policy makers. It is designe...read more

11.03.2009
Sustainable Cities and Regions: Enabling Vision or Empty Talk? - Örebro, 11-13 March 2009
A majority of the world's population lives in urban areas, a situation that entails both expectations and strains. Cities are frequently depicted as sites of economic growth and innovation, and their location in sub-national regions has become an imp...read more

23.03.2009
Parallel patterns of urban growth and decline - Kaiserslautern, 23-26 March 2009
The 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association aims to be a forum for discussing urban and environmental issues.read more

25.03.2009
7th EcoProcura: Climate Neutral through Procurement - Reykjavik, 25-27 March, 2009
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and Reykjavik City Council are pleased to announce the EcoProcura 2009 conference: Climate Neutral through Procurement.read more

22.04.2009
Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment - Loughborough, 22-24 April 2009
Sustainability is arguably the challenge of our time. There is growing recognition that our current development path is now threatening the natural systems upon which our civilisation ultimately depends. Sustainable urban development requires a new w...read more

22.04.2009
Council of European Municipalities and Regions: General Assembly - Malmö, 22-24 April 2009
Members of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe were treated to a typical Swedish lunch in Strasbourg on 27 May 2008. Malmö municipality and the Skåne region offered them a "sustainable development lunch " focusing on home-made, n...read more

07.05.2009
Empty Country and Lively Cities? Spatial Differentiation in the Face of Demographic Change - Berlin, 7-8 May 2009
In recent times, headlines like “Depopulation in Peripheral Regions”, “Rural Areas: Old People´s Homes of Our Society?” or “Cities as Melting Pots?” have been drawing attention to the demographic changes that are now affecting all European countries....read more