The Federal Foreign Office of Germany will hold an international conference on 'Climate change as a security threat - strategies for policy-makers, science and business' in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on November 6 and 7.

The event will focus on potential conflict constellations caused by climate change and the impacts these conflicts may have on peace and security. Moreover, the conference will bring these issues to the attention of a broader public and support opportunities for dialogue.

In a number of speeches and panel sessions, politicians and scientists will address such issues as:
- security implications of global climate change;
- climate change: challenges for global governance;
- technological responses to climate change;
- municipalities and climate change: responsibility and opportunity.

http://www.freiburg-konferenz.de/home_en.htm


Programme       

Wednesday, November 5    20:00    Benefit Concert given by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (proceeds will
go to the solar energy project "Lighting up Hope and Communities in Rural
Nicaragua"), Concert Hall Freiburg - Rolf Böhme Saal, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1


Thursday, November 6


8:00    Registration
9:45    Welcome addresses:

Dr h.c. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office
Dr Dieter Salomon, Mayor of the City of Freiburg

10:00    Opening speech: Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Foreign Minister    Key note address:
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2007, India

Discussion

UAV Information Workshop - 10 November 2008 BXL
CHAR S2 (room Lord Jenkins), Rue de la Loi 170, 1000, Brussels
While non-military use of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) seems to be economically attractive, investment in UAV technology is mainly financed through defence projects. In a study conducted by Frost & Sullivan for the European Commission (DG ENTR), the global situation is analysed and the challenges and opportunities for Europe are discussed.
The findings of this study will be presented at this information workshop, as well as other relevant European activities.
Registration is mandatory, please fill in your e-mail address in the box below and click "Register". This will take you to the registration form. Please note that your registration is not effective until you receive an e-mail entitled "Your registration to the UAV Information Workshop has been approved".
Agenda
13:00 Registration check and coffee
14:30 Welcome and Introduction (Commission, DG ENTR)
14:45 Presentation of a
study analysing worldwide
activities on civilian and military UAV, addressing the market segmentation as well as identifying the future industrial and market
challenges & opportunities for Europe (Frost and Sullivan)
16:00 Q&A on the study
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Presentation: the role of UAV in EUROSUR1 (Commission,  DG JLS)
17:00 Presentation of the findings of the  UAVnet project
17:15  Presentation by ASD on the Industry's interest
17:30  Presentation of the EDA funded Air4All project
17:45  Conclusions & final comments
18:00  End of the event

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/security/uav_info_workshop.htm

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The CINEFOGO Network organizes March 16-18 2009 a Conference on Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in EU. The conference is held in Brussels.  After almost four years of joint research, the netw ork will stage a top-level conference where European researchers will meet EP members, EU officials, NGO representatives (EU, national), and the media. The goal of the conference would be spreading the outcomes of research conducted by the CINEFOGO project at the European and national levels of policy making.

The conference will focus on two important topics relevant for all citizens of Europe as well as all European policy makers:

- Social rights and social reality in the European Union
- Active citizenship and governance.

The conference will present CINEFOGO Network findings on the relationships among citizens, NGOs, civil servants and politicians at the European and national levels. It will identify different roles of various actors and institutions, the ways they are (or are not) involved in the decision making processes, and how their actions influence the changing human living conditions – including accessibility of social rights to European citizens.

Governance at the EU level has a big impact the on daily life and working conditions of the Europeans. However, the citizens of Europe mostly do not understand the complexities of EU policy making. Their active participation at various levels of governance differs from one country to another and from agenda to agenda, depending on uneven strengths of particular civil societies, different civic cultures, and emerging new modes of cooperation between private and public actors. There is an important role of intermediate organizations, such as NGOs and the media in nurturing conditions for the activation of European citizens. In general, active citizens’ participation is still a feeble resource in the EU decision making processes.

Next Generation Public Safety Communication Networks and Technologies (NGenSafe'09)

In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on
Communications (IEEE ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany,

18 June 2009

Public Safety Communication (PSC) is currently receiving increasing attention of research community world wide. The performance and resilience of PSC systems directly impacts the level of coordination and efficiency of public safety agencies. The efficient communication is probably among the most important parts of emergency response and could affect the number of human lives saved in many parts of the world.

The PSC Europe Forum is promoting research interest and needs of public safety commmuniction.

Workshop Motivation

-  PCS communication today is mainly based on several different analog (VHF) and first generation digital radio access technologies (TETRA, TERAPOL, P25). The technological diversity creates an interoperability problem at different levels that reduces the efficiency of emergency operations; it increases the market fragmentation and equipment costs. It is important in the early research stages to consider the development of interoperable and harmonized technologies.

- There are cases when pubic safety agencies are using existing public communication networks and there is an obvious need of research towards the use and optimization of existing technologies that will take into account private public safety user requirements.

WORK PROGRAMME 2009
COOPERATION
THEME 10
SECURITY
Call SEC-2009-1
SEC-2 Demonstration Project Phase 1
Coordination and support actions 100% funded of 1.5 years of duration
Activity 10.1: Increasing the Security of citizens.
Topic SEC-2009.1.1.2 CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear
agents and Explosives (phase 1)
The Security theme aims at meeting its main objectives – improved security for the citizens,
and enhanced competitiveness for industry - as substantiated in the topics of its
‘demonstration projects‘ which will be the ’flagships‘ of the Security theme.
Successful demonstration of the appropriateness and performance of novel solutions is a key
factor for the take-up of the output of the research work and its implementation by security
policies and measures.
CBRNE CBRNE
Barcelona October 2008
Technology oriented research in the Security theme consists of several
building blocks, representing three – in some cases parallel, in others
subsequent - routes that contribute to the overall objectives:
- On the top level of the building block structure, demonstration projects
will carry out research aiming at large scale integration, validation
and demonstration of new security systems of systems going
significantly beyond the state of art.
They depend upon the compatible, complementary and interoperable
development of requisite system and technology building blocks of the
integration projects and capability projects.
They intend to promote the application of an innovative security solution,
which implies a strong involvement of end users, taking into account the
relevant legal and society related issues, and strong links to new
standardisation.
The Security theme aims at meeting its main objectives –